Might be overly paranoid..

sariel

New Member
Being new to marine tanks and whatnot. I thought at first my Coral Beauty might have ick, as on his face and alittle around his eyes looks.. off? though it doesnt quite look like the "sandy" pictures I see. At any rate I snagged some pictures and it doesnt show up AT all, you can kind of tell where theres darker patches on his face, which look more whitish to the eyes, but in one picture I grabbed it almost looks like there might be a start of HLLE? Would appretiate some input. he didnt come from the best of environments, poor thing, there was no QT since he was the first fish in my tank for a few weeks, of course NOW things start to show up since Ive put others in there. Im afraid I didnt quite do the research to how much of a pain in the rear it is to treat salt water issues compared to fresh, horrible ball drop on my part.
I have a QT up and cycling now, unless informed otherwise Im going to leave him be with the others unless things start to look worse.
I apologize for the quality, still working against the learning curve of taking pictured through a tank, in the first you can see the line, the second two you can see more of the shadowish discoloration on his head that looks more whitish/greyish in person. I almost wonder if its scaring.


 

beth

Administrator
Staff member
Sorry, I can't really see anything in those pictures, however, it would be a good idea to keep a close eye out. It may be the beginnings of HLLE given the poor environment he came from. Giving him quality food and a good environment with excellent water quality is going to go a long way make any issues present easier to deal with.
 

sariel

New Member
Thanks so much for the speedy reply. Id like to think I keep a pretty clean tank, been feeding frozen mysis predominantly then read Cbs need alittle more variety so Ill be picking somthing else up this weekend.
Totally paranoid about ich after reading what needs to be done to treat it o_O
 

beth

Administrator
Staff member
It may be ich. We'll know soon enough. Feeding fish a variety of quality foods is always the best way to handle nutrition.
If it is ich, do you have refractometer to do hyposalinity?
 
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