Hi all,
I have a small blue hippo tang that I’ve had for months and she’s developing some strange symptoms that I can’t diagnose. My display tank is a 125g reef with 2 clowns, a purple tang and sail fin tang (no aggression issues as they were added at the same time), a powder blue tang, a coral beauty, a flame hawk, a three stripe damsel, fox face rabbit fish, and the baby blue hippo. About a month ago, shortly after adding the fox face and powder blue at the same time, there was an outbreak of ich (possibly even velvet) in the DT and we moved everyone into a 90 gallon cycled quarantine tank to run the display fallow. Everyone has been doing ok in the QT (we have dosed it with Cupramine but have admittedly been bad at testing and keeping it at therapeutic levels) except for the blue hippo. She has been scratching the last few days and for the past week or so hasn’t been looking good. She has white stuff on her that looks more like flakes than ich or velvet spots. Her fins look kind of frayed also.
I’m not sure what’s going on but I noticed she was laying on her side at the bottom of the QT in the middle of the day, which is unusual behavior for her. I fed the tank right after (happened to be dinner time anyway) and she did get up and eat, although not as vigorously as I’d expect. I scooped her out and gave her a 5 minute freshwater dip and now have her in a 1 hour paragard bath in case there’s something bacterial going on.
Posting some pics and video - anyone have a clue what this could be? I’ve seen some people in other threads mention copper poisoning, could that be the issue?
I have a small blue hippo tang that I’ve had for months and she’s developing some strange symptoms that I can’t diagnose. My display tank is a 125g reef with 2 clowns, a purple tang and sail fin tang (no aggression issues as they were added at the same time), a powder blue tang, a coral beauty, a flame hawk, a three stripe damsel, fox face rabbit fish, and the baby blue hippo. About a month ago, shortly after adding the fox face and powder blue at the same time, there was an outbreak of ich (possibly even velvet) in the DT and we moved everyone into a 90 gallon cycled quarantine tank to run the display fallow. Everyone has been doing ok in the QT (we have dosed it with Cupramine but have admittedly been bad at testing and keeping it at therapeutic levels) except for the blue hippo. She has been scratching the last few days and for the past week or so hasn’t been looking good. She has white stuff on her that looks more like flakes than ich or velvet spots. Her fins look kind of frayed also.
I’m not sure what’s going on but I noticed she was laying on her side at the bottom of the QT in the middle of the day, which is unusual behavior for her. I fed the tank right after (happened to be dinner time anyway) and she did get up and eat, although not as vigorously as I’d expect. I scooped her out and gave her a 5 minute freshwater dip and now have her in a 1 hour paragard bath in case there’s something bacterial going on.
Posting some pics and video - anyone have a clue what this could be? I’ve seen some people in other threads mention copper poisoning, could that be the issue?