Eel- fish fight... need some fish doctor help

[vair]

In my 180 tank I have a gymnothorax ueppelliase eel sorry I don't have a common name. Just over a week or so I introduced a large Lunare Wrasse he darted straight for a pvc pipe behind some rock and run smack into my eel they had a battle for a couple of minutes in the pipe shaking the rock and pipe pretty hard. Then no movement for quite sometime. Next time I looked in the tank the wrasse had some bad cuts on his face and not looking very happy. I noticed what looked like injuries that I thought he might have got from running into my urchin, round holes with almost white heads coming out. My eel has not had much of an appetite since this and the wrasse is not doing so well. Today I had a good look in the eels mouth, he's missing and has a bunch of broken teeth. The teeth are stuck in the wrasses face!

Should I remove the wrasse and pull the teeth out with tweezers? Leave them hope that they'll fall out?
Do the eels teeth re-grow? Some of his teeth are broken and in his mouth sideways? Can I, should I do anything for him?

Dave

Thanks in advance, sorry for the long post

 

[Anonymous]

Hey vair, I hate to hear about your trouble. I believe most morays have depressible replacement teeth. So the eel should be fine.

If you could get the wrasse out, without causing much more stress and put him in Quarantine it might be helpful. You could pull the teeth and treat the wounds with a topical antibiotic. If you can't get him out of the main tank, make sure the water is as clean and oxygenated as possible and keep an eye on him.
Good luck.
Andy

 

[Tackett]

I had the same thing happen with a red flag grouper and a blue ribbon eel. Wasnt a pretty sight. But both survived, if thats any consolation.

 

[Anonymous]

HAd the same problem with a yellow margin eel and a blue damsel.


The eel was fine the damsel had half of his head gone. I put the damsel in the qt tank for about 3 weeks and got rid of the eel fish grew his head back and I ended up killing him with a sand storm.