Help!!! Hippo Tang Ich?

[Sashaka]

I knew I was forgetting a few fish that made it through all the meds. Also surviving the treatments is a peppermint hogfish and a Talbot in the 180 gal.

Here is a link that chronicles my fish illnesses and treatment sagas over the last year. It's long and painfully sad...at least for me: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/w...-of-parasites-and-bacteria-in-sw-tank.375383/ if interested.

 

[vinny110]

My journey fighting fish illness has been long and arduous. The Hippo tang didn't make it. It developed a bacterial infection while in treatment. It did go through a formalin and a Rally dip, and it was being treated with the triple trifecta antibiotics recommended by the crew here, but the Hippo stopped eating and died. I lost quite a few favorite fish during this bout of fish illness, but the fish that survived seem to be doing well..so far. I'll try to get an updated pic with my cheap cell phone camera when I'm feeling better. I've been home sick with the flu, so I'm typing this from bed. ;Vomit

The fish I mourn:
Yellow coris
Green wrasse
Banner fish
Hippo tang
Spot band butterfly (my fault...I had to add copper quickly because of an outbreak of velvet seen on my vagabond butterfly)
dragon wrasse
There may be a few more. I can't think well today.

Fish I am hopeful that are clear of illness with one week to go of copper power:
2 banner fish
melanuarus wrasse
yellow tang
vagabond butterfly
blue streak cleaner fish
unknown goby
kole tang
flame hawkfish
midas blenny
ruby headed wrasse
2 engineer gobies

The engineer gobies had huge gaping wounds at one point. They are one hardy fish!

In a separate copper power tank...also with one extra week to go:
Majestic angel
transitioning leopard wrasse (eating like a pig both frozen and flake!)
blue spot goby
African dwarf angel
diamond watchman
No losses in this tank. :)

thanks for the update :) Btw your from Catskills NY? I' lived in Albany, NY for the past 6 years.

 

[Sashaka]

thanks for the update :) Btw your from Catskills NY? I' lived in Albany, NY for the past 6 years.

Yes. I'm right in the middle of nowhere land. I have to travel an hour or more in any direction to reach a LFS, and the LFSs in those directions are really a joke: Sick fish, sick corals, high prices, and bad advice all around. LOL. Thank goodness for the internet. It's where I do most of my fish related shopping now. ;Joyful

 

[madreefer11]

I had one with ick. Wiped out my whole tank. Take it out and put in quarantine tank.

 

[vinny110]

Yes. I'm right in the middle of nowhere land. I have to travel an hour or more in any direction to reach a LFS, and the LFSs in those directions are really a joke: Sick fish, sick corals, high prices, and bad advice all around. LOL. Thank goodness for the internet. It's where I do most of my fish related shopping now. ;Joyful

When I was in Albany, I didn't anything nearby the colleges. lol

 

[vinny110]

I had one with ick. Wiped out my whole tank. Take it out and put in quarantine tank.

Yep, currently doing that right now, the display tank has only corals/inverts while the fish stock going through its 2nd week in QT with copper power solution.