Emperor angel mouth

[Joe24wr]

I'm not to sure what is wrong with my emperor's mouth but it got shipped to my house from petsolutions on wednesday, two days ago this happened to its mouth and I don't know what happened, it's not eating, help?

 

[FTMMWS]

Hmm,,not sure..could it have nipped a nem or something that might have stung it?

 

[Joe24wr]

Don't have any

 

[zacheyp]

what corals and fish do you have?

 

[Joe24wr]

Fish only tank

 

[zacheyp]

What other fish?

 

[Joe24wr]

Nothing that would do anything,
Calm dogface puffer
Blue tang
Blonde naso
Red sea sailfin tang
Longnose hawkfish
Baby Niger trigger
Snowflake eel
Coral beauty angel
Flame angel
Gold stripe maroon clown

 

[Nu-Nu the eel]

Ya i definitaly wish i had your tank.. Haha and what size?

 

[Joe24wr]

125 hah it's going great except for this, I've been told its mouth fungus

 

[Nu-Nu the eel]

How do you cure that?? Haha

 

[Joe24wr]

I'm gonna treat melafix and copper and hope it works, thank god I have a qt set up

 

[Nu-Nu the eel]

Haha thats true. Did the fish come that way?

 

[Joe24wr]

Nope it was like this on the first day, then the past two days became bad

 

[Nu-Nu the eel]

Ah :/ well thays a pretty awesome fish

 

[Joe24wr]

It should be fine

 

[ccCapt]

Don't use copper, it's for parasites. What's your water quality like? You are pretty well overstocked with some big fish.

 

[Joe24wr]

Actually no, it's not, it's properly stocked and most of the fish are rather small, the water quality is perfect, the fish can get it from shipping stress as well

 

[ccCapt]

I totally disagree. It's far from stocked properly.
dogface puffer - adult size 13"
Blue tang - assuming it's a hippo tang, adult size 12"
Blonde naso - adult size 18"
Red sea sailfin tang - adult size 16"
Emperor angel - adult size 15"

What is your definition of "perfect" water quality?
What brand test kits do you use and what are your water parameters?

 

[Joe24wr]

Well considering I will be upgrading to a bigger tank, this is a great size for now,
Ammonia-0
Nitrate-0
Nitrite-0
Ph-8.2
Salinity-1.021
And I use an API saltwater test kit. I'd say that's pretty good water quality?

 

[ccCapt]

Why are you keping your salinity so low? Natural seawater is 1.026 and there is no good reason to keep it at anything but natural levels. Long term exposure to lower than natural salinity levels lead to kidney failures and early death.