Is this ich please help

[Marian12]

Hi guys ive been trying to observe if this is ich ive got a tang with id say about 8 spots on him and been observing for about a week hes active eating and swimming fine isnt really flashing expect the odd occasional one today ive seen my firefish with 2 spots aswell both been in the tank for over 7 weeks I couldn't get a photo of the tang but have one of the firefish I also have 3 chromis which are bullies so not sure if its bite marks as the tang seems to have a small bite mark or white flesh on one off his fins. All of my other fish the cardinals, clowfish and algea blenny and chromis seem fine hard to tell on the chromis as they have white bite marks all over them from the aggression

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Hi guys ive been trying to observe if this is ich ive got a tang with id say about 8 spots on him and been observing for about a week hes active eating and swimming fine isnt really flashing expect the odd occasional one today ive seen my firefish with 2 spots aswell both been in the tank for over 7 weeks I couldn't get a photo of the tang but have one of the firefish I also have 3 chromis which are bullies so not sure if its bite marks as the tang seems to have a small bite mark or white flesh on one off his fins. All of my other fish the cardinals, clowfish and algea blenny and chromis seem fine hard to tell on the chromis as they have white bite marks all over them from the aggression

Very easily could be. Fish won’t show symptoms from ich until there are large numbers of spots - hundreds.

Watch for spots that come and go, change location, but generally increase in number and spreads to other fish - that helps confirm ich.

 

[KrisReef]

Probably, under “management “ according to the post text.

The bully fishes don’t appear to be nipping fins, but if the tang has shredded or ragged edges on the caudal fin then it might be a good idea to remove the tang or the chromosome (dang spelling fixerlol) chromis- fishes to reduce stress and make “Ich-management “ more effective. Otherwise, if the stress continues the Ich may explode and fishes will die.

 

[Marian12]

Probably, under “management “ according to the post text.

The bully fishes don’t appear to be nipping fins, but if the tang has shredded or ragged edges on the caudal fin then it might be a good idea to remove the tang or the chromosome (dang spelling fixerlol) chromis- fishes to reduce stress and make “Ich-management “ more effective. Otherwise, if the stress continues the Ich may explode and fishes will die.

Amazing thank you for the reply i do have a qt tank set up just incase would you say its worth moving everything into quarantine and treating with copper as I know that also causes a lot of stress on the fish or would you reccomend to just qt the bullies and carry on observing to see what happens ?

 

[KrisReef]

Amazing thank you for the reply i do have a qt tank set up just incase would you say its worth moving everything into quarantine and treating with copper as I know that also causes a lot of stress on the fish or would you reccomend to just qt the bullies and carry on observing to see what happens ?

What I would do, is the best that You can. I generally don't make treatment recommendations, I do throw hints around but I leave medication recommendations for fishes to the many good medicine folks who post on here, @Jay Hemdal and others, they know how to properly medicate!