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180 gallon water volume.
Tank is about 3.5 months old.
I have had a few fish die recently and some of the others don't look well.
I do not have a quarantine tank (very much regretting this-blah,blah,blah).
I need help identifying what disease(s) is in the tank and I would love a reasonable plan of attack.
Here are the symptoms:
Phos is .19 -been reading 0 for the last month and I've been feeding a ton recently to get it up. Yesterday was the first time I've ever received a Phos reading
Nitrate 10 - also been reading 0 until yesterday
Dkh 7.6 (stable)
CA 450
Mag ~1400
API ammonia kit appears to be showing .25 (for whatever that's worth) - I do have a dead clown under the rocks that I have not been able to remove yet, but I'm thinking the API is giving a false positive.
Please help me with a reasonable plan. I do not have a quarantine tank but I have 2 40 gallon brute trashcans currently being used for fresh and salt water. I have a few extra heaters and pumps.
Should I remove ALL fish and put them in the brute trash cans? I was thinking I could move one of the large marine pure blocks from my sump and dump a bottle of bio-spira
This option would require me to remove all rocks from the DT and would be a huge pain...
Should I treat the DT with prazi?
The tank is new so I would rather resolve this now, but pulling everything out and starting over is a major bummer.
Here are some pictures. I only have an iPhone and it's really hard to get anything useful...
Tank is about 3.5 months old.
I have had a few fish die recently and some of the others don't look well.
I do not have a quarantine tank (very much regretting this-blah,blah,blah).
I need help identifying what disease(s) is in the tank and I would love a reasonable plan of attack.
Here are the symptoms:
- B&W clown fish has mouth wide open for 2-3 days
- Memic tang has white flakes on fins (I don't see anything on the body)
- Blue tang has a spot on body (maybe flukes)
- Unicorn tang has cloudy eye and hiding a lot (cannot get a great picture)
- 1 of my golden nugget clown pair died last night
- I had a regal tang for about 10 days and it died last night - not sure if related. It would only nip at live clams.
- It's hard to tell, but it looks like several tangs have white flakes just on the fins.
- 3 chromis appear fine
- 2 shrimp are fine
- Cardinal fish looks fine
- RBTA is fully open and appears fine
- Most of the fish still eat and actively swim around tank
Phos is .19 -been reading 0 for the last month and I've been feeding a ton recently to get it up. Yesterday was the first time I've ever received a Phos reading
Nitrate 10 - also been reading 0 until yesterday
Dkh 7.6 (stable)
CA 450
Mag ~1400
API ammonia kit appears to be showing .25 (for whatever that's worth) - I do have a dead clown under the rocks that I have not been able to remove yet, but I'm thinking the API is giving a false positive.
Please help me with a reasonable plan. I do not have a quarantine tank but I have 2 40 gallon brute trashcans currently being used for fresh and salt water. I have a few extra heaters and pumps.
Should I remove ALL fish and put them in the brute trash cans? I was thinking I could move one of the large marine pure blocks from my sump and dump a bottle of bio-spira
This option would require me to remove all rocks from the DT and would be a huge pain...
Should I treat the DT with prazi?
The tank is new so I would rather resolve this now, but pulling everything out and starting over is a major bummer.
Here are some pictures. I only have an iPhone and it's really hard to get anything useful...