Ich?

[Bigrome57]

 

[winxp_man]

Get some pics with over the tank bright white lights or 20-30 second video uploaded to YT and linked here. You can post videos here but the quality and loading time are not the greatest at times.

Back to the fish, yes ich or mucus cones from stress or water quality. Or it can be both. Post with the suggestion in my post and further analysis can be given. In the video looks like ich.


For ich QR with copper power or copper safe at 2.25 ppm minimum. And to be checked with Hanna HR Copper checker.

 

[Bigrome57]

Get some pics with over the tank bright white lights or 20-30 second video uploaded to YT and linked here. You can post videos here but the quality and loading time are not the greatest at times.

Back to the fish, yes ich or mucus cones from stress or water quality. Or it can be both. Post with the suggestion in my post and further analysis can be given. In the video looks like ich.


For ich QR with copper power or copper safe at 2.25 ppm minimum. And to be checked with Hanna HR Copper checker.

It zooms in towards the end

 

[vetteguy53081]

It zooms in towards the end

Yes this is ich and you will need to place fish in Quarantine tank and treat with Coppersafe or Copper Power at therapeutic level 2.25 for a FULL 30 days (do not interrupt this 30 day period) monitored with a Hanna Brand copper test kit- No API brand. Also monitor Ammonia levels while in quarantine with a reliable test kit and add aeration during treatment using an air stone. All other fish in with it should also be removed as they have also been exposed to the parasites and placed in quarantine tank.
The display tank will have to be kept fishless (FALLOW) for 6-8 weeks to assure the existing parasites go through their life cycle without a host fish and die off. Inverts and coral can remain in the display (not treatment) tank during fallow period.
A quarantine tank can be as simple as a tank from a second hand store, a Rubbermaid type tub or a starter kit from Walmart which most of the needed essentials.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

+1 - this is ich. The tang is also breathing a bit fast, and that is not a symptom of ich at this point in the infection, so there may be more going on - possibly gill flukes.

 

[Bigrome57]

+1 - this is ich. The tang is also breathing a bit fast, and that is not a symptom of ich at this point in the infection, so there may be more going on - possibly gill flukes.

I don’t think I will be able to quarantine separately. I will dig into it. I do have some parzi on hand. Would you suggest going ahead with that and treating the tank then moving to ich management or a possible qt? Honestly probably going to try and go ich management, understanding the risk.

If I treat with parzi I’ll need to turn off uv, so helps with flukes but also weakens tank vs the ich free swimmers

Do I just skip parzi?