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Do you have a way to QT all of your fish and treat with Prazi? If not it is somewhat reef safe just going to kill most of your tube worms and bristleworms.I woke up this morning to find my damsel dead and everyone else acting very weird. The spots on my clown look a lot worse. Anyone know what this might be?
Treatments are listed in the thread I posted. Treat the same as flukes. Praziquantel, formalin, and freshwater dip. I'd definitely do the fresh water dip right away to provide some immediate relief then go with Prazi in a QT set up if possible.Thanks y’all! Any tips on curing?
Do you have a way to QT all of your fish and treat with Prazi? If not it is somewhat reef safe just going to kill most of your tube worms and bristleworms.
Anything can be a QT tank. A 5 gallon bucket, a sterilite container. If you have a HOB filter and a heater then QT is possible. Put some pvc fittings for the fish to hide in and use some media from your main filter to run in the QT HOB filter.
You can dose Prazi in the DT but could cause problems with some inverts. Mainly worms.
is it just the clownfish in the tank now or are there others?
I think Big G may be correct. Plus any black ick I’ve ever seen was smaller. No disease expert here...Did/do the other fish also have these black marks on their body's? The hammer coral behind the fish could certainly be stinging the fish and causing hypermelanization.
Those are awfully large for black ich spots, could be a sting and resulting hypermelanizafion. It COULD be a component of your issue but based on the other deaths I am guessing there is more at play.
Any of the fish hiding from light? Swimming in to powerheads? Have spots? “Dustings”? Flashing? Scratching? Losing appetite? Losing color? Breathing heavily?
Those symptoms could be bacterial infections (often internal) or velvet hiding amongst the gills, or an issue in the water. Standalone it’s difficult to say.Yes the clown hides most of the day and the diamond goby seems lethargic and lazy. Neither one is eating.
Those symptoms could be bacterial infections (often internal) or velvet hiding amongst the gills, or an issue in the water. Standalone it’s difficult to say.
If I were going to throw the book at it it would be copper power and spectrogram (or kanaplex + furan 2). Copper power for 14 days and the other meds for 14 days and then a transfer to a completely sterile quarantine that shared nothing with the original. If this cannot be achieved, 30 days in copper, 14 in antibiotics.
No, you’ll need to commit to treating them in a QT or lose your fish, most likely.Is this something I can do in my main tank? I don’t have a qt tank and am trying to avoid needing one. I did order prazipro.