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    Parasite on butterfly fish?

    Well, it looks like he died while I was posting the last post. = ( Anyone know of a way to bring a fish back to life? ..j/k RIP "Cookie butterfly yellow-fish" - as my 2-year-old liked to call him.
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    Parasite on butterfly fish?

    Thanks for the instructions and links - I do appreciate the help. It looks like things have gone wrong, though. = ( I checked on him this morning, and he's sitting flat on the bottom of the tank, with flushing and the base of his fins and some patches of dark coloration on his body (where...
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    Parasite on butterfly fish?

    Thanks, I will try a treatment with malachite green/metronidazole for two weeks, or cupramine, if you think that would be better (can I do both simultaneously?). Yes, the fish is in quarantine (the pics I posted were older pics, and the spots have grown/multiplied since then), and no, he did...
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    Parasite on butterfly fish?

    Thanks for the info on the formalin bath. I gave him his first bath. Unfortunately, it didn't result in the visible parasites falling off. They've even grown larger than they were on the first day of the bath, and he has a new spot on his tail. I've included the best pics I could get, and...
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    Parasite on butterfly fish?

    Well, I gave the fish another fresh water dip and then placed him in a bath of Prazipro (approx. 10 mg/gal), cupramine, and maracyn II for 5 days. I also manually removed any white flukes/bumps I could see each day. They've left holes all over his head where there are no scales, just pale...
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    Parasite on butterfly fish?

    Thanks, I'll try that. I did a fw bath for 30 min. with methylene blue.
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    Parasite on butterfly fish?

    Update:it looks like one of the biggest bumps fell off. There's a very small pinkish spot left behind on the fish. The bumps that are still left on the fish are smaller and more rounded, and it looks like the scales are lifted uparound a few of them, but it's hard to see clearly.
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    Parasite on butterfly fish?

    Hi, I got a new long nose butterfly fish about a week ago. I gave him a freshwater dip and have been watching him closely for the last week. He is happy abd eating well (brine shrimp, spirulina, mysis). After two days, he had 5 or 6 faint white dots near his head. I wasn't worried, since...
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    Help ID big reef slug/worm/caterpillar

    I'm going to go with cryptoplax larvaeformis! Thanks! It looks exactly like the critter in RainyDave's first post. And yes, it is pretty darn big! Glad it doesn't kill coral - I didn't want it to die on my kitchen counter, so I had put it back in the tank while trying to figure out how to...
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    Help ID big reef slug/worm/caterpillar

    Okay, trying again... This time with photobucket. This link should take you to the album. http://s1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee471/beeps4u/Slug%20from%20Fish%20tank/
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    Help ID big reef slug/worm/caterpillar

    Darn, that didn't work. I tried facebook instead of photobucket, since I already had an account there. Try going to this link on facebook... http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=1564445472&k=ZZCX4ZR6R3TF6BD1PEY5W4UUTRIB4UWCVSIPC&oid=448097447414 In the mean time, I'll check out photobucket... I...
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    Help ID big reef slug/worm/caterpillar

    Okay, here are the pics. I apologize for the poor quality.
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    Help ID big reef slug/worm/caterpillar

    It might be some type of flat worm, but it seems more complicated than that. It seems like a cross between a nematode and a nudibranch. It's about the size of most nudibranchs I've seen, but it's not soft and squishy. And it's not colorful.
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    Help ID big reef slug/worm/caterpillar

    So, I've got some pics, but I can't figure out how to link them to this message. The instructions say I've got to upload the image first, but I can't figure out how to do that. The FAQ directed me to the user control panel, where I should be able to click on something related to albums - but...
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    Help ID big reef slug/worm/caterpillar

    Hi, I was cleaning my tank today, and something fell off of my heater. I wouldn't have paid much attention, except it curled up like a caterpiller as it fell. I've never seen anything like it. It's about 2.5" long and 1" thick. It's beige colored with a row of six, knobby shell-like spots...
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    bloated rabbitfish

    Interesting to hear about sand in fecal matter. I guess I won't worry about that then... = ) While in the main tank, I think that he was eating a bit of spectrum pellet that I offered (which he had been eating in the pet store for the 2 mos. that they had him), but he was also munching on...
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    bloated rabbitfish

    Yep, I have algae on the sand in some spots, and it could have easily happened. = (
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    bloated rabbitfish

    I have some new info: I think that he may have been eating sand. He has pooped a few more times, and there is a very hard, fine, grainy substance in his poop. It's maybe about 5-10% of his poop. There's no sand in his bucket that he could be eating right now, so he must have eaten it in the...
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    bloated rabbitfish

    Thanks. I'll see how he does.
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    bloated rabbitfish

    I should also mention: in the fish store and at my house he was eating spectrum pellet and freeze-dried mysis primarily (until he stopped eating) - fed twice a day. He also has a variety of different algeas to munch on (my tank has a plentiful supply - that's one thing I can grow well).
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