ich is kicking my fish's butts, requesting visual confirmation this is ich

[blurry]

holy crikey. I've had ich in the tank before, no losses like this though. All fish went through QT and were good till I added some snails. odds of introducing ich like this, likely next to none, but it seemed to work - that or there was a straggler. either way, can someone confirm this is ich - in the last week i have lost a potters angel, Royal Gramma, clown, yellow assessor. The only one that showed significant issues was the Gramma which looked to have a bacterial infection. I've been able to get the foxface out and a cleaner wrasse who is hanging on by a fin. Still have 3 fish left - yellow tang, had signs, looks better, fairy wrasse and a very shy whitejaw cardinal fish.

a trap is on order, hopefully it is here next week!

thanks for helping and letting me vent a bit

 

[Qasimja]

you sure it isnt velvet? i ask because normally ich doesnt kill like that

 

[JimG1966]

I found out about this stuff today. I lost a few fish to ich awhile back. I have studied up on ich a bunch when i was fighting it but never found this stuff.
The guy that owns Cheezy Coral in New Albany swears by it. He has like 10 tangs in one of his frag tanks and said they all had it and after using this it was gone in 4 days and did not loose a fish. I have not used it myself but am getting some to have on hand since i am getting a few tangs and we all know they are ich magnets.

Medic

Medic is a highly effective water conditioner used to control external fish parasites present in both marine and freshwater environments.

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[Big G]

holy crikey. I've had ich in the tank before, no losses like this though. All fish went through QT and were good till I added some snails. odds of introducing ich like this, likely next to none, but it seemed to work - that or there was a straggler. either way, can someone confirm this is ich - in the last week i have lost a potters angel, Royal Gramma, clown, yellow assessor. The only one that showed significant issues was the Gramma which looked to have a bacterial infection. I've been able to get the foxface out and a cleaner wrasse who is hanging on by a fin. Still have 3 fish left - yellow tang, had signs, looks better, fairy wrasse and a very shy whitejaw cardinal fish.

a trap is on order, hopefully it is here next week!

thanks for helping and letting me vent a bit

Hard to tell from your picture. Can you get a closer pic? Could be you are dealing with both Ich and velvet. Try looking at the Foxface at an angle with a small, bright flashlight. Look for the dusty sheen of velvet.

 

[blurry]

Got a few more pictures, closer look thinking it could be velvet. Harder to tell with the fairy wrasse, tang is more prominent.

fresh water dip and into 1.32 copper power. Not a fan of harsh run like that, thinking it’s the best course of action without having reef rally available.

 

[MERKEY]

Looks like velvet in the last pics on the yellow tang. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Ucyibd1]

Indeed looks like velvet, gotta move quick with treatment. There is a great thread about treatment on here somewhere. I will see if I can find it. I was told if you can count the spots it is ich, if there are to many to count, it is velvet...

 

[Big G]

Numerous small white spots, too many to count. Usually is velvet.

Velvet (Amyloodinium ocellatum)

Marine Velvet Disease (Amyloodinium ocellatum) What You Need To Know: * Fast killing parasite capable of wiping out most of your fish in just a matter of days. Sometimes there are survivors, sometimes not. * Can be treated in a quarantine tank using Chloroquine phosphate or Copper. A 5...

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[blurry]

Alas. Thank you. Borrowed a trap, the fairy, working on the yellow tang. I can’t find acriflavine locally so it’s fresh water and copper for now. Holding level at 1.32, will raise as soon as I get the tang in.

btw, these sliding glass traps suck!

 

[blurry]

wrasse is rebounding from the freshwater dip and moving into 1.32 copper. tomorrow morning I'll move to 1.5 and edge up from there. White jaw cardinal fish is drip acclimating to the copper (really don't want to loose him). unfortunately I'm pretty sure the tang knows the trap is just that, a trap.

 

[MERKEY]

wrasse is rebounding from the freshwater dip and moving into 1.32 copper. tomorrow morning I'll move to 1.5 and edge up from there. White jaw cardinal fish is drip acclimating to the copper (really don't want to loose him). unfortunately I'm pretty sure the tang knows the trap is just that, a trap.

Unfortunately you may have to move some rocks

 

[JimG1966]

Lights out, use a red net and red light to be able to see the tang... not used this on a tang but have on other fish i could not catch and it helped... still wasnt easy

 

[blurry]

just caught the last fish (yellow tang) - sneak night netting. fish in QT are hanging in there at the moment! start the ticker on the fallow period

 

[blurry]

quick update - copper up to 1.75, 4 remaining fish are doing well! tank sitting fallow

 

[Cell]

Nice quick work. Now the waiting game.

 

[blurry]

Nice quick work. Now the waiting game.

thanks, I tried to do it right this time and it still got through. Just happy I had most of what was needed ready to go!

 

[ScottB]

Nice work blurry; hoping everybody pulls through OK.