I don't think he has much time. I noticed my Pearscale Butterfly fish -stopped eating yesterday. Will not eat anything. - lost some of his anal/dorsal fin it seems to just be disappearing - He will not go down into the rocks like he used to, where he hid under the ledges. - He seams to be...

Ok guys so my tank has been doing great the past few months since setting it up .. so much infact that im picking up a aquareef 400 in three weeks which im purchasing second hand, should be great. so anyway being new i dont QT my fish at this time, risky i know .. but if they were to get ich im...

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I just bought a little tuxedo sea urchin this morning. Everything doing great until now as I looked at him and saw what looked like a dark coloured bristle worm. :eek: I managed to get it off with a pair of tweezers. It was running around his spines and his little mouth. Does anybody now what...

Greetings fellow aqualovers, It is with great displeasure that I bring you yet another ich thread. I'm so sick of dealing with this parasite I'm about to get out of the hobby for good. :confused: I've dealt with it on and off over nearly a decade and for some reason this time I've just had it...

Hello reefers, I have this worm in my tank that I believe is a parasite. I just noticed 2 of them about a day ago. If anyone could tell me what they are It would be most appreciated...so here are are the traits I was seeing of this worm. 1: It looks like a worm with tiny spikes on it. 2...

Hello, I am having a pretty rough time identifying the parasite or bacterial infection that is present in my fowlr tank. I have a 60 gallon with a Kole Tang, 3 firefish, a 3 stripe damsel, some hermits and turbo snails, and a skunk cleaner shrimp. The Kole tang and damsel are pretty regularly...

Hi All- need some ID help please! We noticed this small mass on our meat coral over the past week, who otherwise is happy and healthy. Then I noticed our open brain coral, who hasn't been as happy lately, has a similar mass. Tonight I noticed the small mass has changed position on our meat...

Hello All:wavey::wavey: Looking to buy some live rock to help seed my tank, but I am very worried about introducing pests and parasites into my tank. Anyone have personal experience buying live rock in South Florida? Thanks for the help!! :D

I had my molly miller blenny for 3 years. This morning I woke up and saw this can anybody tell if an injury or parasite? I did notice my canary blenny looked a not ruffed up too.

Hey guys, I've had my royal gramma for about two months now and I recently purchased a flame angel. Once my flame angel came in the the tank the gramma has been hiding a lot. He'll eat like a champ but I recently noticed a white sheen taint on his side and he's breathing a bit heavy... I don't...

Hi there, Had a Nano set up a couple of years, one bad move not to quarantine a wrasse and an outbreak of Ich. Its been fallow fish less for 6 weeks and intending to move the corals and inverts over to my big reef. Nothing good happens fast in this game and i deserved what i got....but how...

Just seeded an above display refugium and i noticed a very large critter. After doing a bit of research i figured that it is an isopod but I am having problems determining if it is a bad one or not. Anyone know?

Hello everyone, I need some help with an ID for some white spots on my Pink Tail Trigger. This is my favorite fish and I am hopeful it will get better. I do not want it to die, nor do I want it to infect any of the other fish if it is Ich. None of the others show any sign of spotting. The fish...

Okay so i bought a pulsing xenia the other day. When i disinfected a couple things fell off. I put it in the tank and another thing fell out. it was a worm of some sort it had a top like a feather duster, like a crown. It was wiggling and floating its way through the water until i captured it...

Hey guys, So I just got back from my LFS with my first set of livestock for my new tank. I'm new to all this. I got two O.Clowns 4 hermits and 3 peppermint shrimp. I'm currently acclimating them. On my biggest shrimp there is a tumor looking thing on the right side of the carapace (the head...

Help! I found something that looks like a parasitic worm on the base of one of my percula clowns this morning. The clown was swimming erratically and managed to tear a large portion of the "worm" off itself. I have a photo below of the "worm" on the fish and a photo of the "worm" falling in the...

Any Idea what this corkscrew shaped yellow thing is on this Zoa?

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Morning! So i have another thread under crustaceans. I wanted more opinions. I have a pair of coral banded shrimp, one developed a blue abdomen? Weird I thought. So I hope its eggs, and not a parasite. What do you think? I did research and the egg sack was blue and then also white in some photos.