Hello! First Reef Tank!

[Will Godfrey]

anyone know what's on my Fish! First problem with sickness/disease and need help!

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[Will Godfrey]

Fish are eating and acting normal but these spots are not.

 

[Big G]

@d2mini need to move this to Disease Treatment Forum

 

[Big G]

Looks like Ich or velvet. Is this a new fish? How long has it had the spots? Is the fish flashing, breathing heavy, hiding from lights, or swimming into flow?

 

[Will Godfrey]

Is breathing a little heavy.. everything else is fine. No he has been in this system for months, and I don't know where this came from I haven't added anything in a WHILE. bad spots for about a week

 

[Big G]

Can we get a bit better picture of the spots.

 

[Big G]

Have you added anything else "wet" to the tank in the last 30 days or so? Corals, inverts, etc.

 

[Will Godfrey]

 

[Big G]

With those rather large spots on its face I'm leaning more toward Brook. Does the skin look like it is "peeling" or "sloughing off"? Didn't you have a sick clown?

 

[Will Godfrey]

Yes it does look like that!!!! And the clowns appear fine but when I turned black lights on I could see small traces of it on them.

 

[Big G]

Here's Humblefish's treatment for Brook. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/brooklynella.247938/#post-2913287

 

[Big G]

The clowns are/were carriers earlier when you first got them. Brook can infect any fish. The fish need to be put into a QT and the tank needs to go fallow for 6 weeks to starve out the parasite.

 

[d2mini]

@d2mini need to move this to Disease Treatment Forum

I'm going to leave it here because it started out as a meet and greet thread.
If OP wants, they can start a new thread in that forum but I think you've got him pretty well covered. Great advise. :)

 

[reef lover]

All good advice...and welcome to r2r!