Hello
About 2.5 weeks ago the dosing pump I purchased from Neptune failed miserably, resulting in the pump sending a liter of red sea alkalinity solution into my system. Scheduled dosage was 12ml per day.
I have had more issues in the last 2 weeks than I have had in 20 years of reefing.
The failure was apparently due to a mother board issue. Gonna be a pretty expensive failure for me. Lost the first fish last night from something I have never seen before. It started out like ich which is fine but then the fish was covered in bright red bumps, all clustered in singular areas. I thought it could be velvet, and maybe it could be, but each fish showing symptoms is getting "patches" of symptoms. Not all over the fish, but it starts out as a white dustiness like velvet, but with no bumps. In the blue tangs case (photo attached) the velvety dustiness never covered his whole body, and the spots he had looked bigger than velvet. I've dealt with ich a lot but I believe this to be something different.
The blue tang had a lot of bright red dots, like pimples, before dying, and after dying the red spots are gone, leaving behind only areas of what looks like flesh.
The fish aren't really showing signs of velvet either, I have never dealt with velvet however.
Params are (now) all where they should be. Alk popped to 15 or so and ph to like 8.8 from the failure.
Any help would be awesome, blue hippo went first. Scopas tang seems to getting the white discoloration in one or two spots, but it really doesn't look anything like the velvet photos i've seen. I do not have a photo of the scopas at this time.
Purple tang developed a few ich spots after the alkalinity and ph spike, but has fought them off as he has done in the past. I am not worried about ich, I have a feeling this is something else. Purple has not had any symptoms beyond that.
Other fish seem, I tried to count the breaths per minute and they seem to be around 1 per second, maybe a tiny bit more.
The photo attached is of the deceased blue tang. I have had fish die from ich a few times in the past (been a while), but their bodies never looked like this after passing. They also never had bright red clustered bumps. The areas where you see no skin is where the clusters of these red bumps where the worst.
I'd say the white cloudy patches he started out with after the dosing failure looked a bit more like brook than the photos I have seen of velvet. I do not have any clowns in the fish tank.
Most of the corals that were in the spike are dead, or have been moved. I don't think these issues are related, the corals likely died from the spike itself.
Inverts don't seem to affected by the swing,
I dont have a QT set up, i'd like to save the remaining fish if possible however.
One other thing to note is that bumps weren't clearly red unless looking very closely at the fish, but with a close examination they looked like bright red pimples.
About 2.5 weeks ago the dosing pump I purchased from Neptune failed miserably, resulting in the pump sending a liter of red sea alkalinity solution into my system. Scheduled dosage was 12ml per day.
I have had more issues in the last 2 weeks than I have had in 20 years of reefing.
The failure was apparently due to a mother board issue. Gonna be a pretty expensive failure for me. Lost the first fish last night from something I have never seen before. It started out like ich which is fine but then the fish was covered in bright red bumps, all clustered in singular areas. I thought it could be velvet, and maybe it could be, but each fish showing symptoms is getting "patches" of symptoms. Not all over the fish, but it starts out as a white dustiness like velvet, but with no bumps. In the blue tangs case (photo attached) the velvety dustiness never covered his whole body, and the spots he had looked bigger than velvet. I've dealt with ich a lot but I believe this to be something different.
The blue tang had a lot of bright red dots, like pimples, before dying, and after dying the red spots are gone, leaving behind only areas of what looks like flesh.
The fish aren't really showing signs of velvet either, I have never dealt with velvet however.
Params are (now) all where they should be. Alk popped to 15 or so and ph to like 8.8 from the failure.
Any help would be awesome, blue hippo went first. Scopas tang seems to getting the white discoloration in one or two spots, but it really doesn't look anything like the velvet photos i've seen. I do not have a photo of the scopas at this time.
Purple tang developed a few ich spots after the alkalinity and ph spike, but has fought them off as he has done in the past. I am not worried about ich, I have a feeling this is something else. Purple has not had any symptoms beyond that.
Other fish seem, I tried to count the breaths per minute and they seem to be around 1 per second, maybe a tiny bit more.
The photo attached is of the deceased blue tang. I have had fish die from ich a few times in the past (been a while), but their bodies never looked like this after passing. They also never had bright red clustered bumps. The areas where you see no skin is where the clusters of these red bumps where the worst.
I'd say the white cloudy patches he started out with after the dosing failure looked a bit more like brook than the photos I have seen of velvet. I do not have any clowns in the fish tank.
Most of the corals that were in the spike are dead, or have been moved. I don't think these issues are related, the corals likely died from the spike itself.
Inverts don't seem to affected by the swing,
I dont have a QT set up, i'd like to save the remaining fish if possible however.
One other thing to note is that bumps weren't clearly red unless looking very closely at the fish, but with a close examination they looked like bright red pimples.
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