treating sick fish

My beloved Green Spotted Puffer has recently developed a swollen lower belly near its anus and been making stringy poop. He was doing fine for a few days and still eating, but recently stopped. He went a few days without eating and didn’t show signs of improvement. I’ve got him in a breeding box...

Is there any reef safe Ich medicine or remedy? I already have copper for a qt tank but I don’t know if I’ll be able to get my sick gramma or clown goby out my tank. Of course I’ll keep trying and even move my rock scape if I have too. Both of them are well fed and healthy before getting sick so...

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...

I was positive the problem was an internal parasite, because his poop has been these giant white milky clouds. But it’s not really stringy like people usually describe it. As mentioned they’re big white milky clouds that come out of him but they also have thin flat white clumps in them. The only...

I picked up my Achilles Tang the day before yesterday. He is in a quarantine tank with Coppersafe as a preventative since Tangs seem to get ich as a matter of course. His color on top of his head has a reddish hue and he has a white patch on the bottom of his head. He is eating and swimming...

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

Whats wrong with my blue hippo tang? I left my house for 4 days during thanksgicing break and my healthy blue tang suddenly developed what looks like to be velvet or ich or soet type of bacterial infection. I need a second opinion so i know what to treat for. He doesnt just have the...

Hi i am fairly new to this hobby and I recently a month back got this emperor angel at first it didn’t seem to have any problems yes it does not eat any pallets i have always seen it nipping on sea weed and all of a sudden it stopped eating that too did a water change yesterday but still it is...

I stg, I know there is a learning curve, but I feel like I run into something new every day. I have a watchman goby, been in the tank about a month that I just noticed yesterday has slightly cloudy eyes. Per recommendation, I did a 5 minute freshwater dip to check for flukes & other...

I have a fluval 13.5 gal that I’ve had for like 5 years and a clownfish in it for the last 3. He normally would swim at the top in the corner of the tank but recently has been sitting at the bottom near a rock that my pistol shrimp and goby have a tunnel under. And about a week ago I noticed...

Hey was wondering why my Regal tangs now has a big white spot on him!! Let me know if anyone has any information and or solution don’t want my fish to die (Could be scratching from the rocks idk)

I’ve had this yellow watchman goby for about two months. He paired up with a Randall’s pistol shrimp and would come out to grab food a few times a week. Today was the only time he's come off the sandbed, he's been swimming around the top of the tank and hovering near the glass. His color was...

Hello everyone (once again). Since yesterday, my P. squamipinnis has been hiding, lost its coloration, and is not feeding. It's not gasping for air, actually it seems like its breathing is slower. I feed a varied diet, with Vitalis pellets, fish balls, Artemia, and spirulina. All other fish are...

Hi, all. I have a 30 gallon community fresh water tank. PH leves are fine, temp, etc... Two of my fish have developed white patches. It's not fuzzy looking, and they aren't small white dots. Does anyone have any idea what this may be? Currently, appetite and movement is fine. We had a couple...

Hi group, After much research and reading I’m 99% convinced my Picasso Clown has Swim Bladder Disease. He was in a tank with parameters of no3 10 po4 0.07 Salinity 1.024 Temp 76.0 F With another Picasso, 6th line Wrasse, YWG, and a CB Shrimp. All others are doing well. however, my clown...

Need help with this. Spot on fox face. He's acting fine I've had ich before and lost a fox face to ich before I took all fish out and treated them for everything under the sun my tank went 85 days without fish so ik not 100 % but I'm pretty sure it's not ich in my system. One thing i was...

Can someone help me determine if this is ich vs brook? Long story short, I found what I thought was a good deal on a kole tang and added it to my reef. All seemed well at first but now I've noticed a few spots on its fins which spread to all over its body. It seems to have infected my orchid...

#reefmedic The damsel isn't eating, and it's got this red blotch on the caudal fin. Spends some time swimming, then hides again. Before putting it in the QT yesterday, I ran it though Safety stop (formalin, and methylene blue in two diffirent baths). QT tank is newly cycled but two seachem...

Hello I have a quick question and I come to r2r BC one everyone here is amazing much better ppl here on r2r then other forum sites! I would like your feed back on my sick koi, yes my freshwater koi! I been in the hobby for quite sometime now and I just got into keeping koi! the fish I got off...

Hey everyone. Got 4 Springeri Damsel Fish from my LFS had them order them they stayed in the shipping bags never touched there water brought them home floated the bags and then gave them an H2O2 dip. Followed Humboldt fish. Then put them in my 10 gallon QT tank with prazipro for 4 days did the...

Hello! I received a Dejardini Tang the other day from someone who could no longer take care of it. However when I received it, it was in terrible shape. It looks like it has HLLE and I’m not sure if it has tail rot as it was previously housed with a porcupine puffer. I also can’t tell if there...

Hi All, since 3 or 4 days one of my clownfish won’t eat and only swims/lays on the bottom. I noticed that he lost some weight and he won’t eat. The other clown does eat but doesn’t “look” all that healthy. I manage to capture them and put them in my quarantaine system. I figured it’s most...

Hi all, Although I love reading all the threads because they are always incredibly helpful, this is my first post for help. My coral beauty has been hiding in caves or behind rocks in front of wavemaker lately and I’ve noticed he isn’t swimming around as normal. He has what appear to be...

Hi. I was hoping to get some advice. I will be acquiring two clown and a sixline (rehoming situation guaranteed ick) and I will be quarantining them. This will be my first quality/ medicated quarantine situation so I want to do it right. I watched the BRS TV video series and was thinking about...

Hi everyone, you can skip to the third paragraph for the short version of this. I bought two clownfish and a randall's goby two weeks ago and added them to my aquarium (20 gallon long), these are my first fish. About a week ago one of my clownfish stopped eating, the next day it was having...