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hi! I recently set up my first salt water fish tank- 20 gallons. I started with 2 clownfish in mid February. They have been doing great. 2 weeks ago I added a watchman goby and all was good. But yesterday I started noticing some funny behavior from one of the clowns- he was resting on the sand...

I have a 75G tank and for the past 3-4 days I have noticed a couple of my fish do some excess scratching on the rock or sandbed. Today I noticed a few (very small) spots on my tang and royal gramma. I decided to be proactive and treat with Coppersafe with a little bit of Safeguard for stress...

Got this mandarian a day ago appears starved swims at surface and seems lethargic any ideas? The spots appeared in about 1 day i only have a clown fish and he's been fine for a month.

Hello everyone, this tang was given to me by a friend because I am currently setting up a larger tank and it outgrew his. It was in my tank for a month as the other tank is cycling. This morning I noticed these large white spots out of no where- seems nothing like ich or velvet. But also too...

IT'S BEEN A TOUGH FEW WEEKS Y'ALL! After losing a some of my beloved fish fam I almost wanted to just give up the whole hobby to be honest. But after getting my remaining fish back to healthy and vibrant I wanted to make this post as more a "lesson learned" post to hopefully help someone else...

Hey everyone so a few days ago I saw spots on my purple tang but it was only on one side of the tang. Today I see similar on my sailfin tang just one side. I don’t notice any scratching or weird behavior from both fish. My powder blue, blonde Naso, chocolate tang and other fish don’t have...

About 10 days ago I purchased a six line wrasse from my LFS and I’ve noticed white dots on his fins. I have 3 fish in my tank - sixline wrasse, yellowtail damsel and a falco hawk fish. The six line is the only one with dots on him. He looks perfectly healthy and exhibits normal sixline...

Hello, I’ve had this pygmy yellowtail angel fish for 3 days now. The first two days they kept to themselves for the most part. On day one when I brought them back home I noticed they had some frayed fins and a small ulceration on their side that disappeared by the next day. On day 2 I noticed...

So I’m experiencing ich for the first time. I’ve set up a quarantine tank (50 gallons) and started dosing copper safe on Thursday with a slow ramp up. I have a Hanna copper checker and I don’t think it’s giving correct numbers. First time I dosed (18ml) checked about 2 mins after and it said...

I watch my tank quite closely as I’m sure most people do and a few nights ago I noticed a few faded white spots on my clown fish, only really noticeable in certain lighting. I’ve kept an eye on in and now it seems to have gotten worse and I’ve began noticing spots on my other fish. I am almost...

I've been frantically going through this forum to try and save my moribund clownfish but had no luck unfortunately. My clownfish has died and I have no clue why after extensive testing. Tank is about 2 and a half months old or so. I've had my clowns for a little over a month. Currently...

I can’t quarantine my clownfish and currently have a 15-gallon reef tank with ich. The tank includes: 1. A clownfish 2. Some macroalgae 3. A mangrove tree 4. Live rock and sand I understand the macroalgae may not survive, but I’m confident the mangrove should be...

Hello! After being away from the hobby for a few years I figured I wanted to get back to it with a fresh start, quarantine everything and no bad hitchhikers on the rocks. Since I live in Sweden my options for medicine is not as big as in the US. Copper safe and the likes are almost impossible...

So on my journey of reefing I have come into ich in my display tank its a 100 display 40 gallon sump. I'm currently dosing h2o2 and running uv to manage it I don't have any other tanks to quarantine fish in. I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do to prevent the loss of fish

Fish are currently in Copper QT tank for ich. Background: I drained/moved tank to a new location and my firefish came down with ich after the move. I actually didn't notice it for a while as Im only home when blue lights are on, and you cant really see it under blues. Fish were not "flashing"...

Blue tang has had white spots developing on him for the past 3 days. Started with one single white spot. Now 3 days later they are covering a lot more of him. I’ve increased feeding to 3-4 times per day. He’s still out swimming and has an appetite. If it weren’t for the spots I wouldn’t think...

Unsure if it's ich? I placed him in qt and dosed rally reef pro while I get help from you guys. Thank you.

I have read through the other posts but am still unsure of the correct diagnosis and treatment. Last night our Bicolour Dottyback died. Yesterday morning, It was lying on the bottom, breathing rapidly. No other visible signs of infection or illness. I took it out of the DT and into HT, but it...

is this ich or something worse? the tank also has a purple firefish and a yasha goby + tiger pistol shrimp

PBT has been scratching, and the grouping is weirdly close together. What are you all thinking? Ich?

Hey All, I’m starting a 40 gallon breeder and am thinking of getting a UV for parasite control. I’m assuming to kill parasites I need high wattage with a low flow pump? Should I get a 12 watt or 24watt and would this one Work? Seems reasonably priced and good quality. What do y’all think?

Hi all, I finished my ich fallow period of 76 days last friday (1st of November) and added my damsel back that same day in an isolation mesh to see if there were truly no parasites left. It’s now been 5 days and he doesn’t have any spots on him, would it be fine to release him back into the...

I can't really get pictures so sorry about that but i just lost 2 clowns 2 ich i presume because they were covered in white spots around the face and now only noticed today my Flame Angel has both its eyes cloudy and now struggling at the bottom. Basically just need to know if there is any hope...

This has to be ich. These little parasites are sitting on my live rock. Have no fish in my tank other than my porcupine puffer a snowflake eel and some inverts. Puffer is immune to the ich so is the eel.

Sorry if this seems like a stupid question but I'm genuinely concerned, so in the past I lost all my fish to either ick or velvet (it was one or the other) so I completely left my tank fishless for a very long time (coral only), but due to a lightning issue all of my coral died (light became too...