jdecter
Member
Without knowing everything, I can only guess, maybe you got him recently and he has some kind of parasite which a cleaner shrimp would naturally fix, or theres a dozen items people would offer to sell you to try and chemically treat, I wont even attempt to tell you one that works because well I don't know all about the many products yet and two I wouldn't suggest going the route of chemical frenzy fix, that many seem to get caught up in.
The other might be he got hurt and has some skin dangling off a damaged area.
Or it could be a disease which will only be verified if it suddenly grows and shows up on other fish, progresses and shows a real sign of infection on your one fish we are talking about here, or other obvious sign of ich or other common issue.
You temperature is way to high by the way. Fish are most happy between 75 to 79 degrees yes 82 is sometimes considered top end for saltwater tank temps but that allows no room for heat rise in the summer or from lighting and also, most fish do best, in 75 to 77 range, they will stress less, anemone's open more, and so on, plus it seems to breed more issues quickly at higher temps.
The good thing is your here asking.
Get all the info you can until something finally seems to really answer your issue, don't stop asking until you get the right answer.
Then act.
Don't just start down the slippery slope of "fix trying". You don't know yet whats wrong, and it is to early to panic.
Plus you can harm other tank mates by trying a slury of cures.
One good advice I saw early here was if you can get him easily into a quarantine tank, (maybe he's an easy catch) then thats advisable but don't start ripping out rocks and disturbing everything which could easily kill stuff for something that might be nothing to worry about.
Also if you can digital pictures for this would be best for getting advice.
The other might be he got hurt and has some skin dangling off a damaged area.
Or it could be a disease which will only be verified if it suddenly grows and shows up on other fish, progresses and shows a real sign of infection on your one fish we are talking about here, or other obvious sign of ich or other common issue.
You temperature is way to high by the way. Fish are most happy between 75 to 79 degrees yes 82 is sometimes considered top end for saltwater tank temps but that allows no room for heat rise in the summer or from lighting and also, most fish do best, in 75 to 77 range, they will stress less, anemone's open more, and so on, plus it seems to breed more issues quickly at higher temps.
The good thing is your here asking.
Get all the info you can until something finally seems to really answer your issue, don't stop asking until you get the right answer.
Then act.
Don't just start down the slippery slope of "fix trying". You don't know yet whats wrong, and it is to early to panic.
Plus you can harm other tank mates by trying a slury of cures.
One good advice I saw early here was if you can get him easily into a quarantine tank, (maybe he's an easy catch) then thats advisable but don't start ripping out rocks and disturbing everything which could easily kill stuff for something that might be nothing to worry about.
Also if you can digital pictures for this would be best for getting advice.
