My poor new Watanabe Angel

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KidNano

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There is a small whitishy yellow thing one the side of my new Angelfish. I tried to look up what it could be and I've narrowed it down to a Fungis which they described as looking like a little cotton ball, a Cancerous growth which they said looks like cauliflower or a wound from getting into it with one of my other creatures. Everyone else in the tank is fine. What is the best way to aproach this?




I read that maybe taking him out of the tank and trying to wipe it off and dabbing iodine on it would be good for Fungis.
If it's cancer scrape it off and hope for the best and if it's a wound treat the tank with Antibiotics.

It was definitely not there when I put him in the tank about 48 hours ago. I just checked old pictures to make sure. I'm thinking it's a wound.

Any opinions?
 
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johnanddawn

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first off don't do anything that would stress it more. it is very common for fish to develop aliments during the first couple week acclimation period to a new environment. generally if the fish was healthy and the environment suitable and stress free they clear up on there own as quickly as they showed up. healthy fish in stable environs generally overcome/don't get these sort of probs, except when stressed by environmental changes
so i would:
1) do nothing for a while (some swear by adding garlic to their food but up to you)
2) if it gets worse or the fish quits eating you may have to take it out and quarentine it so you can treat it with meds - likely a fungus may be a wound
hope for the best......... sorry not much help here, i really hope it works out cause they are cool fish
 
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drty811

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johnanddawn said:
1) do nothing for a while (some swear by adding garlic to their food but up to you)
2) if it gets worse or the fish quits eating you may have to take it out and quarentine it so you can treat it with meds - likely a fungus may be a wound
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i agree with john. i am one of those ppl that swears by garlic. i also swear by mela-fix, i have had great success fixing wounds with it, plus it doesnt effect the corals. HTH and good luck
 
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KidNano

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Thanks for the responses... I'm going to try to do nothing... How long should i do nothing for?

Garlic... Do I chop up a clove and soak the food with it in water or do I actually feed the fish little bits of garlic with the food? Or should I get the garlic powder and sprinkle it on the food?

He's acting fine like it's not even bothering him. Eating a lot. He's so much bigger then any of my other fish I'm not sure how much to feed him.. I do know that he poops more then all my other fish in one pooping. The whole tank gets cloudy when it floats by one of my retuns. I've never had a fish this size. I just hope he gets better.

Thanks again.
 
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KidNano

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OK so I cut up some small pieces of garlic and put it in a small container with some water from the tank and food pellets with some frozen squid. let it sit for a while so the pellets would obsorb some of the water and the squid would defrost then I poured a little bit at a time into the tank. They were all over it. Is that a good way to do it? Mr. Watanabe ate quite a bit of it.
 
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KidNano

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So.... It's been one week since I purchased this guy. The Fungi or cauliflower or what ever it was is going away finally. It's amazing how not doing anything can help so much. I don't think it was a wound after all. I had tested my water and thought that everything was fine. I started thinking that there are other things in the water that I'm not testing for. Could it be possible that my water quality is bad even if it tests fine? Anyway Wednesday I started getting Cyanobacteria so I replaced all my carbon made a quick little reactor out of an Arizona Ice Tea Bottle added some filter flossy type stuff and it's doing a lot better. I did a small water change and I need to do a big one. I have large grain coral sand and I think that is doing me a disservice. I'm thinking of taking a vacuum to it. Thoughts on the Sand?
 
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johnanddawn

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vacuuming sand is a good idea just DON"T do more then half at one time. SSB should be vacuumed regularly regardless of grain size. DSB a bit more care needs to be taken but should also be maintaned with a vacuum. i have a screen layer (2" of sand above and 2" below) in my DSB to make sure i never get to deep and only do portions at a time
 
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