What's on my trigger?

[jason604]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Could it be missing scales from a battle or rock collision ? Or does it protrude ?

It's slightly protruding. Can it be just swollen from crashing into rocks?

[gregzz4]

Near as I can tell in the pic it looks like damage and missing scales/skin. If I'm right the pattern doesn't look like a disease, but don't quote me

Whether I'm right or not, keep your water quality up (water changes enough to make a difference - 25 to 50% at a time) and feed well. No ammonia or nitrites and low nitrates

If it's a healthy fish it'll heal on it's own given a clean environment and lots of nutrients

[jason604]

My water is not good right now. Since I did my tank swap I forgot to put my Gfo and carbon reactor! Checked phosphates yesterday and it was at 0.19. Almost all my sps turned brown or bleached. Doing a 25% water change Tmr.

[gregzz4]

Carbon will make a difference, but I can't see PO4 affecting water quality for fishes. Either way, don't overdo these right now as you'll more than likely cause your corals more stress, so take it slow

Check your ammo, nitrites and nitrates and base your WCs on those #s

[gregzz4]

There's ich in there too ?
Man you have your hands full then

[jason604]

Ich is visabally gone but I dunno. Yea I got a lot happening since he tank upgrade. Sps al look so bad. But all my LPS looks amazing n super colorful

[rishu_pepper]

From what I've read, ich doesn't go away unless you act upon it (TTM, copper, CP, hypo) so that means ich is in your system by now, judging from what you said about the hippo tang. Just because no fish shows symptoms doesn't mean it's not there.

Hopefully your fishes will be fine, but IMHO it's something to be taken care of.