Hyposalinity for possibly ich

[WillyWicked]

Hey guys so I have a 55 gallons with
1 Royal gramma
1 midas blenny
1 pink spotted watchmen goby
2 clownfish
1 flame hawkfish
1 flameback angelfish

Since I added corals (without quarantining them) I woke up to my 2 clowns having white dots on them. No other fish have any after 4 days. Is hasnt gotten any worse and there isnt any film or weird stuff on the clowns. Just perfect tiny white dots. There have been no change in my water chemistry for almost 2 weeks. All tankmates are perfect citizens appart from the angel who eats all my corals lol.

I was planning to move the corals and do a hyposalinity treatment in my display tank since I don't have a big enough quarantine tank for all of my fish. I was just wondering, before doing so, are there any fish on my list that can't tolerate the hyposalinity treatment? If so I will move those in the quarantine tank while the diplay gets treated. All the fish still eat and are active. Thanks for your advice!!

Will

 

[fishywishy]

Do you have a video of the clowns under white light? My clowns have gotten random white dots like this and they were fine. @Jay Hemdal

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hey guys so I have a 55 gallons with
1 Royal gramma
1 midas blenny
1 pink spotted watchmen goby
2 clownfish
1 flame hawkfish
1 flameback angelfish

Since I added corals (without quarantining them) I woke up to my 2 clowns having white dots on them. No other fish have any after 4 days. Is hasnt gotten any worse and there isnt any film or weird stuff on the clowns. Just perfect tiny white dots. There have been no change in my water chemistry for almost 2 weeks. All tankmates are perfect citizens appart from the angel who eats all my corals lol.

I was planning to move the corals and do a hyposalinity treatment in my display tank since I don't have a big enough quarantine tank for all of my fish. I was just wondering, before doing so, are there any fish on my list that can't tolerate the hyposalinity treatment? If so I will move those in the quarantine tank while the diplay gets treated. All the fish still eat and are active. Thanks for your advice!!

Will

This is indeed ich and clowns, blennies and gramma may not be stable in Hyposalinity and the remaining would do well. I suggest at least for the smaller fish, Coppersafe treatment at 2.25 treatment level for 30 Full days monitored with a hanna Brand copper test kit and the display tank without any fish (fallow) for 6-8 week period to allow the parasites to die off without a host fish.

 

[WillyWicked]

Do you have a video of the clowns under white light? My clowns have gotten random white dots like this and they were fine. @Jay Hemdal

Yea I'll take one right now. They act TOTALLY normal. So what would it be if it aint ich?

 

[WillyWicked]

This is indeed ich and clowns, blennies and gramma may not be stable in Hyposalinity and the remaining would do well. I suggest at least for the smaller fish, Coppersafe treatment at 2.25 treatment level for 30 Full days monitored with a hanna Brand copper test kit and the display tank without any fish (fallow) for 6-8 week period to allow the parasites to die off without a host fish.

Yea I figured the blenny wouldnt do well... Though the problem is I'm going away for a week on holidays which is why I'm going towards the possibility of treating the diplay with hyposalinity for 30 days and putting the sensitive fish AKA blenny/gramma in the quarantine tank. Cant really do a copper treatment right now

 

[WillyWicked]

Here is a video. No heavy breathing, no flashing either.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Yea I figured the blenny wouldnt do well... Though the problem is I'm going away for a week on holidays which is why I'm going towards the possibility of treating the diplay with hyposalinity for 30 days and putting the sensitive fish AKA blenny/gramma in the quarantine tank. Cant really do a copper treatment right now

As long as there no corals or inverts in display, you are clear to do Hypo (1.009)

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Here is a video. No heavy breathing, no flashing either.

I can't tell much from the video, but the still pics do look like ich. I would prepare to run hyposalinity, but give it a few more days, just to see if the spots show up on any other fish, confirming ich.

Here is my article on hypo:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/hyposalinity.880546/