Is this ICH on my foxface?

[Flare]

Hello, I recently added a Magnificent Foxface to my mixed reef tank. Its been a few days and I just noticed this spot on my foxface, I am worried its my first encounter with ich. Fish looked fine at the LFS, fish is eating well and swimming fine, no aggression issues besides some light chasing from my tomini tang the first day. Attached is the photo. Below are my tank stats.

Tank Size: 75 gallon
Fish

• Magnificent Foxface
• Longnose Hawkfish
• Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish
• Royal Gramma Basslet
• Bristletooth Tomini Tang
• Pajama Cardinalfish
• Kaudern’s Cardinalfish
• Diamond Watchman Goby
• Starry Blenny
• Six Line Wrasse
• Splendid Pintail Fairy Wrasse
• Red Head Solon Fairy Wrasse

Invertebrates

• Tuxedo Urchin
• Brittle Star
• 3x Emerald Crabs
• 2x Peppermint Shrimp
• 1x Trochus Snail
• ~6x Bumblebee Snails
• ~6x Astrea Snails
• 2x Turbo Snails
• ~6x Blue Leg Hermits
• 1x Halloween Hermit

 

[Flare]

These are my parameters:

• Salinity: 1.025
• pH: 8.0
• Nitrite: 0 ppm
• Nitrate: 1 ppm
• Phosphate: ~0 ppm
• Alkalinity: 8 dKH

I have to dose NeoNitro Everyday, as well as All For Reef. I do two small feedings a day, usually a mix of high quality flake and pellets, sometimes ill feed a cube of marine cuisine.

 

[Fish Fan]

Sorry to hear about your issue with your Foxface, maybe one of the R2R #fishmedics can take a look for you.

Good luck!

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Hello, I recently added a Magnificent Foxface to my mixed reef tank. Its been a few days and I just noticed this spot on my foxface, I am worried its my first encounter with ich. Fish looked fine at the LFS, fish is eating well and swimming fine, no aggression issues besides some light chasing from my tomini tang the first day. Attached is the photo. Below are my tank stats.

Tank Size: 75 gallon
Fish

• Magnificent Foxface
• Longnose Hawkfish
• Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish
• Royal Gramma Basslet
• Bristletooth Tomini Tang
• Pajama Cardinalfish
• Kaudern’s Cardinalfish
• Diamond Watchman Goby
• Starry Blenny
• Six Line Wrasse
• Splendid Pintail Fairy Wrasse
• Red Head Solon Fairy Wrasse

Invertebrates

• Tuxedo Urchin
• Brittle Star
• 3x Emerald Crabs
• 2x Peppermint Shrimp
• 1x Trochus Snail
• ~6x Bumblebee Snails
• ~6x Astrea Snails
• 2x Turbo Snails
• ~6x Blue Leg Hermits
• 1x Halloween Hermit

That *could* be ich, but it could also be a mucus plug, a minor injury or even a bit of sand. I'd watch it for now: ich spots will come and go at first, changing location every few days, but generally increasing in number over time. Spots on the fins are more likely to end up being ich. If you start to see more than a couple/ half a dozen spots or if any other fish start to show spots, then you need to get serious about trying to treat it.

 

[Flare]

That *could* be ich, but it could also be a mucus plug, a minor injury or even a bit of sand. I'd watch it for now: ich spots will come and go at first, changing location every few days, but generally increasing in number over time. Spots on the fins are more likely to end up being ich. If you start to see more than a couple/ half a dozen spots or if any other fish start to show spots, then you need to get serious about trying to treat it.

Watch it I did, the little white spots had gone away, today I noticed this much on my Foxface. Seems like the surface of the skin, the spot has become visible on the other side too, only one white speck on the tail. It looks like the spots could become fuzzy, please see attached photos.

 

[Flare]

From my experience in freshwater fish keeping, I am kind of panicking as this looks like my first occurrence with ick in saltwater. What would be the best precaution to take? I was going to upgrade tanks soon, what size quarantine tank do i need for this foxface? I just want to be ready for the worst.

 

[get-salty]

On the other hand, I'd keep close attention to your nutrients. You're about to bottom out !

phosphate and nitrate.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Watch it I did, the little white spots had gone away, today I noticed this much on my Foxface. Seems like the surface of the skin, the spot has become visible on the other side too, only one white speck on the tail. It looks like the spots could become fuzzy, please see attached photos.

A couple of the areas look more like fish bites, with a bit of extra mucus. Of the fish you have, I would suspect the sixline or the blenny, but neither of those are super prone to biting another fish like that.

I would just keep watching this.....

 

[kfries]

I had a similar spot on my foxface earlier this year. It took a few weeks, but I recovered. I never figured out what it was. It was newer to the tank at the time so it could have been from another fish bitting at it or possibly from it hiding in the rocks. I have a blue hippo tang that I got when it was very small. It would hide on the rocks alot and sleep in there at night. Its head was all scared up for months. It eventually got ich, recovered form it and its head finally healed up and is looking great.