Black lace angel sick or harmed

[snailpufferguy]

My 60 gallon tank has a beautiful black lace angel and lately I've seen some problems in the last 2 days he has tattered fins and thick cloudy white spots on him not like ich but bigger I'm not sure what could be causing this but I do have 4 reasons and maybe one is right


1- My 2 Siamese algae eaters are sucking on him I've seen this in stores
2- The betta is attacking his fins most likely because of the misconception he looks like a betta I've kept angels with bettas in smaller tanks and saw no problems.
3- I highly doubt it but maybe one of my 2 kissing gouramis is attacking him they have big mouths but I really don't think this is true because they are gentle giants.
4- Maybe some kind of disease I don't know what though.

Sorry for the blurriness but you can make out the white spots on his head area and on his ventral fins any help is welcome thank you!

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[Andy Sager]

These could be attack wounds or a bacterial/fungal infection. Columnaris would be my first guess because of the head but attack wound would be from the fin wound. So for now, I would place the fish in isolation( you can use a divider in the main tank) to see if it gets worse or better on it's own but if it get's worse within a day or 2, I would use a hospital tank immediately and medicate for both parasites and bacteria.

Hope this helps

 

[snailpufferguy]

He is still quite small and right now the only tank avaliable I have is a planted 10 gallon there's no fish in there and it's very peaceful would that work for the little guy?

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[coralbandit]

IMO 1 and 3 are strong possibilities.
On the 4 it is columnaris unless you see fuzz(hair like) on the scales in which case it is a fungal infection...
http://www.myaquariumclub.com/columnaris-and-what-i-have-learned...-1689.html
Eitherway Kanaplex and furan2...

 

[Andy Sager]

He is still quite small and right now the only tank avaliable I have is a planted 10 gallon there's no fish in there and it's very peaceful would that work for the little guy?

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If it is in fact Columnaris, it would infect the other tank so NO, that's not a good place to put him in. For now, I would use a divider to isolate the fish from the others in the current tank. If necessary, use a clean bucket with an airstone in it and put the fish in there overnight and get a proper divider tomorrow.