something attached

[terryansimon]

hmm. help? do I catch the little bugger and scrape the thing off? or let the clown fight it off?

newly introduced fish since last night. only found out tonight that there are two of these things attached to it.

[terryansimon]

shucks I just realised I posted this in the wrong thread. damns.

can some moderator help me move it to the disease/treatment folder? thanks a bunch.

[terryansimon]

could it be lymphocystis?

[terryansimon]

newly acquired True Perc. suffered from fin nip by the female on the way home as well. poor thing. =(

[roidan]

i dunno what the experts will tell u..but if its me, i will get the clown out..and take flat tip tweezers to get these leech-lookalke things off...but thats me lah..hehe

[terryansimon]

I feel like doing that but I'm afraid I may cause more harm than anything.

if its lymphocystis, many people say you can do that or let the fish fight it out.

urh

now I'm REALLY confused.

[roidan]

hmm..duno leh..wait for the experts to give you advice lor..hehe

endure endure....

[terryansimon]

oh well. hope everything is okay lah.

both feeding well leh. I gave them some cyclops last night and they ate greedily. hmm.

[Dazza]

I had these on my angels b4. I know its not really gd advvice but i got rid of em by introducing a doctor fish. Not gd advice becos doctors are hard to keep. U can try cleaning shrimps.

[terryansimon]

anybody with doctors to lend me?

no cleaner shrimps. akan datang this Tuesday...unless you can tell me a farm or something with cleaner shrimps.

[roidan]

yeah..these few days din see any cleaner shrimps around

[dradttg]

yeah..these few days din see any cleaner shrimps around

SARS returned so all of them at TTSH.

I have not been visiting the LFS lately but I do remember seeing a lot at Reborn and Pasir Ris the last time I visited them.

Alternatively, I do remember someone was posting about pregnant skunk shrimp. Wonder how the little ones are doing.

[mAriNe_enthusiast]

I tried to lower the Salinity and it works for my tang...But u have to do it separately in a quaratine tank.

The water quality in the quarantine tank has to be in good condition too...

If not leave it, let the fish immune system fight it...

[chrislwp]

Encounter couple of times too to my damsel and tang, but it disappear later.

[SpiderOne]

ur fin nip photo looks exactly the same as your parasites.

[terryansimon]

Spiderone....

uploaded the wrong photo for the wrong comment. couldn't edit it in time. oh well

to everyone out there.

anybody who can help me? or should I just let the bugger fight it out?

[terryansimon]

anyone?!

[D'minor]

Ah..used to have them before. Some sort of an evil copepod/saltwater wood louse. It's actually ###### blood out of those fishes. DO NOT LET THESE PARASITES BREED ! KILL THEM ALL !

You could try to scrape it off if you want to. I did it once. But it seems to stress the fish more when you net the fish and have the copepod manually removed.

Anyway they'll usually come out in the dark. Once you spot them on the sandbed, net it immediately and KILL IT !

[terryansimon]

isopod you mean. yeah just found out from a friend. problem is. everything on the sand bed looks the same to me.

[D'minor]

Just get rid of those that looked like the one on the pics. If too many, then kill that many. Beneficial pods don't feed on your livestock.

[terryansimon]

oh well. time to draw the swords then.

[KapoKidd]

I got one idea:

THROW AWAY THE FISH!!!!!!!

[terryansimon]

RIGHT.