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[rescue411]

Can anyone please help find out what is wrong with my extra large lion fish, he has thus weird looking hard mucous looking thing stuck to his cheek area, he has changed his eating habits for the last 2 weeks, eats very little and todays I noticed this wierd thing on his cheek, here are some pictures

PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME SAVE HIM!!!!

Please see the pic I took

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33031708@N06/

Thanks guys

[Fine Fins]

Did he just rub up against something? Is it spreading is it only on his cheek? Is he acting different?

[rescue411]

yes he is acting different, always hiding and it looks like it could be a parasite any ideas on how to threat it? I guess I could catch him to dip him in a bucket

[socalaly]

i Assume since its a lion and all that is a FO tank? why don't you just treat the whole tank?

[rescue411]

I also have 4 anemones, shrimp, crustaceans, and leathers if I threat the whole tank will it affect them?

[Redeye]

yes, it will affect them too
assuming it's a parasite
you should QT him elsewhere if possible, Copper is a strong med for killing parasites, but will kill inverts, so treating your system is not an option

Fish like lions are easy enough to catch, so the stress on the fish should be minimal

[nahtanoj]

to top off what scott said, if you treat a FO system that has live rock/sand with copper, you will have dead rock, and dead sand, and dead everything due to ammonia in your tank.

[socalaly]

Okay sorry to change the subject but you can have a lion in a reef tank???????? OMG I so want one...

[Redeye]

case by case basis, we have that lion reef at PK

[Techknowledgy]

They are reef safe with the proviso that they will eat ANYTHING that will fit in its mouth. The mouth opens like a grouper- so be forwarned. Those chromis and shrimp make expensive snacks.

QT with copper.