Is this ich?

[josez35]

it’s on both my clownfish all of a sudden. I recently moved my tank to the other side of the room had these guys for 3 months. They have been swimming and eating fine.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

I'm pretty sure yes. Have you added more fish lately or anything new?

 

[josez35]

No new fish recently but I had a dottyback that passed like a week ago. Had white spots on her but they were big spots and I was told it wasn’t ich by my LFS.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

It probably was ich they just wanted to sell the fish. The best way to treat it is with copper in a hospital tank. Good luck.

 

[josez35]

Thank you for the reply. I will try to save these little guys

 

[MombasaLionfish]

Post to tell me how they are doing.

 

[Reef_scuba]

I had this and received advice from a lfs to add this cooper medication to my tank which definitely cured the rich (which is what yours looks like) but was not advice so well like you have above about doing this treatment in a hospital tank and put it straight in my tank.. this in turn changed my tank to a 'cooper tank's which meant I could never have invertebrate or corals.. in the end after carbon and mass water changes after nearly a year of trying to reverse this my tank would never hold any other life bar fish and I had to get a new one! So definitely hospital tank and just a heads up this is a quick killer in my experience so sooner the better.

Hope all is well.

 

[LAReefer4Life]

How are your clowns doing ?