queen angle help

[mick]

Hi everybody. This is my first post. I am new to this site but very impressed with all the quality information! At any rate, I acquired a 6 inch queen angle 8 days ago. She went into my 30gal quartine tank after 1.5 hr drip acclimation. She did not get a fresh water bath or any medication. The water quality in the QT is as follows:
amoina=0
nitrite=0
nitrate=15-20
ph=8.2
She eats everything I offer, which is: Lifeline/green, mysis soaked in selcon brand lipids, angle formula, and rod's herbbivor formula. She eats it all. Her colors and physical appearance are A++. She is quite calm and her breathing seems regular. If she surrvives the quarintine proces she will go into my 220 fowlr which has been opperating for 8 years.
The only problem is that she has some white fluf on both her side fins. It looks a little like thin cotten fluff. Ive read that perhaps removing the fish placing it on damp towels and applying hydrogen peroxide with a q-tip could help. I have never done this. Any advice??? Dont want to lose this beauty. Any advice would be appreciated!!

[leebca]

WELCOME TO REEFLAND MICK!

I can't help you very much without seeing exactly what you are looking at. It could be a symptom of the virus that causes Lymphocystis. And if it is this, you do nothing but reduce stressors and improve the vitamin content of the foods. (You are feeding a fat supplement, but no vitamin supplement was listed).

Without a picture I can't help much in the diagnosis. However, if you search the Internet for Lymphocystis, you will see photos of what those infected fishes look like. This link has a photo of a Queen Angel infected with it: ViralDisLymph.

The problem is most likely space stress. That quarantine tank is a bit small for that size fish.

I hope the final display tank you have for this fish is at least a 300 gallon tank (or larger).

If you provide a photo after being sure it isn't Lymph, I will try and help more.