So a bit of background. Tank fully cycled in April, so 5 months old. 400L so about 100G.
Stocking - Black leopard wrasse, coris wrasse (yep was duped as a newbie not knowing the difference between Christmas and Coris species as my first fish but doing ok and not a bully thankfully), double banded rabbit fish, snowflake eel and a now deceased chromis (my Canary in the mine).
Various coral, zoas, goni, hammers (2 frogspawn now RIP) and elegance.
Had a heater fail and noticed on the 8th Sept (now have an inkbird so it never happens again!). Temp dropped to 20c and slowly brought it back up.
I noticed because fish were stressed, (rabbit and chromis) and the others not coming out.
The stress event showed up in rabbit and chromis, the others seemed to be fine once water was warmed and came out again.
The rabbit showed signs of ich, white spots and the chromis did too and started surfing the jets late at night. Treated with vertonex as I needed something reef safe, not copper. The chromis didn't make it but took 2 days for body to appear (as have lots of caves for the eel and didn't want to further stress ripping up the tank). Had an ammonia spike from the chromis but the tank quickly responded so wasn't an issue.
The rabbit however is doing ok. When I say ok, can't get enough of green nori, but still has spots and has poor appetite with mysis. However, my understanding of the ich cycle is they erupt, and then reinfect. The issue is, the spots are still only on his fins and eye, in the exact same places after weeks.
Phosphates are high from the treatment so using drops for that, but also indulging the nori as it's what he seems to need, raising it further.
All parameters seem ok, salinity 1.024, ph 8.1, ammonia 0, (don't test nitrites often so no idea), nitrates at 20ppm but also reflective of a hana result on 0.09 phosphate and if I'm reading it right the ratio doesn't seem weird (although less than that ideal!).
So the question. Is this ich or something else I'm dealing with. Had my 2 frogspawn bailout, everyone else seems happy, but the rabbit fish just has spots that won't go away.
Stocking - Black leopard wrasse, coris wrasse (yep was duped as a newbie not knowing the difference between Christmas and Coris species as my first fish but doing ok and not a bully thankfully), double banded rabbit fish, snowflake eel and a now deceased chromis (my Canary in the mine).
Various coral, zoas, goni, hammers (2 frogspawn now RIP) and elegance.
Had a heater fail and noticed on the 8th Sept (now have an inkbird so it never happens again!). Temp dropped to 20c and slowly brought it back up.
I noticed because fish were stressed, (rabbit and chromis) and the others not coming out.
The stress event showed up in rabbit and chromis, the others seemed to be fine once water was warmed and came out again.
The rabbit showed signs of ich, white spots and the chromis did too and started surfing the jets late at night. Treated with vertonex as I needed something reef safe, not copper. The chromis didn't make it but took 2 days for body to appear (as have lots of caves for the eel and didn't want to further stress ripping up the tank). Had an ammonia spike from the chromis but the tank quickly responded so wasn't an issue.
The rabbit however is doing ok. When I say ok, can't get enough of green nori, but still has spots and has poor appetite with mysis. However, my understanding of the ich cycle is they erupt, and then reinfect. The issue is, the spots are still only on his fins and eye, in the exact same places after weeks.
Phosphates are high from the treatment so using drops for that, but also indulging the nori as it's what he seems to need, raising it further.
All parameters seem ok, salinity 1.024, ph 8.1, ammonia 0, (don't test nitrites often so no idea), nitrates at 20ppm but also reflective of a hana result on 0.09 phosphate and if I'm reading it right the ratio doesn't seem weird (although less than that ideal!).
So the question. Is this ich or something else I'm dealing with. Had my 2 frogspawn bailout, everyone else seems happy, but the rabbit fish just has spots that won't go away.