Help! What does my royal gramma have?

[Ramon reef]

I'm new to the hobby. I started my 75gal in April. I have a few fish in my DT which I quarantined. Everything went well with them. Yesterday I purchased a royal gramma and put him in a qt tank on his own. In the morning checked up on him and he was full of white spots. What does he have?

 

[KrisReef]

Wow, the fins are badly torn, like something was biting this fish, maybe before you brought it home?

Looks like mucus cones or ich. Do you have copper for the QT?

 

[KrisReef]

@Jay Hemdal @vetteguy53081

This fish doesn't look very promising. Sorry.

 

[Rocks reef]

It appears to have been purchased already in bad health. It has ich.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I'm new to the hobby. I started my 75gal in April. I have a few fish in my DT which I quarantined. Everything went well with them. Yesterday I purchased a royal gramma and put him in a qt tank on his own. In the morning checked up on him and he was full of white spots. What does he have?

This fish has ich parasite but also shredded fins suggesting aggression from another fish such as clowns.
If tank is not treated already, coppersafe at 2.25ppm will be the cure , and monitor level with Hanna brand copper test kit and treat for 30 full days, no less and monitor ammonia level while tr

 

[Ramon reef]

Wow, the fins are badly torn, like something was biting this fish, maybe before you brought it home?

Looks like mucus cones or ich. Do you have copper for the QT?

I do. I wasn't sure if it was flukes, in which case I should use prazipro?

 

[Ramon reef]

This fish has ich parasite but also shredded fins suggesting aggression from another fish such as clowns.
If tank is not treated already, coppersafe at 2.25ppm will be the cure , and monitor level with Hanna brand copper test kit and treat for 30 full days, no less and monitor ammonia level while tr

Ok, I will dose when I get home. If it's still alive.

 

[Ramon reef]

Thanks for the suggestion everyone.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I'm new to the hobby. I started my 75gal in April. I have a few fish in my DT which I quarantined. Everything went well with them. Yesterday I purchased a royal gramma and put him in a qt tank on his own. In the morning checked up on him and he was full of white spots. What does he have?

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

If you bought this fish yesterday and it has been in a tank by itself at your home, you need to call your dealer out for selling you a fish with ich and ripped fins from tankmate aggression. Then return it for a refund. Curing this fish isn’t going to be easy since you’re in Canada (unless you can get coppersafe).