Tang and Clown Diagnosis

[JHabig12]

Asking for help identifying what's wrong with my new fish. Setup and cycled a new tank in January. Ordered and received some quarantined fish from online which were delivered in two different shipments a week apart (Clown pair, YWG, Royal Gramma, Bristletooth Tang). One week after the second shipment, a royal gramma suddenly passed with no visual symptoms. But immediately after one of the clowns began displaying spots and now the tang. Inverts appear unaffected. Fish are still eating. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Aquarium Parameters:
Aquarium type: Reef
Aquarium water: 90g

Water quality:
Temperature: 78degF
Salinity / specific gravity: 34.7ppt
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5ppm
Phos: .12
Alk: 9.4
Calc: 428
Mag: 1320

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Asking for help identifying what's wrong with my new fish. Setup and cycled a new tank in January. Ordered and received some quarantined fish from online which were delivered in two different shipments a week apart (Clown pair, YWG, Royal Gramma, Bristletooth Tang). One week after the second shipment, a royal gramma suddenly passed with no visual symptoms. But immediately after one of the clowns began displaying spots and now the tang. Inverts appear unaffected. Fish are still eating. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Aquarium Parameters:
Aquarium type: Reef
Aquarium water: 90g

Water quality:
Temperature: 78degF
Salinity / specific gravity: 34.7ppt
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5ppm
Phos: .12
Alk: 9.4
Calc: 428
Mag: 1320

Not much of note visible on the clownfish, but that tang has ich.

The gramma probably didn't die from ich, especially if it wasn't showing a LOT of spots first.

"Pre quarantined" fish vary quite a bit in quality, depending on the process used. Who did you get them from?

 

[JHabig12]

Thanks Jay for the quick reply. I apologize for the quality of the pictures. They make the tang look worse than it does and make the clown look better. My wife and I were looking at pictures online trying to diagnose it and we would see one and be like "it's definitely ich". Then we would see another and be "it's definitely velvet" etc. Figured I would ask the experts.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Thanks Jay for the quick reply. I apologize for the quality of the pictures. They make the tang look worse than it does and make the clown look better. My wife and I were looking at pictures online trying to diagnose it and we would see one and be like "it's definitely ich". Then we would see another and be "it's definitely velvet" etc. Figured I would ask the experts.

Velvet will show as not eating, rapid breathing and possibly swimming into the current to get more oxygen. You won't see spots with that.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Agree on ich and not sure if Jay os remote (on the road) but you will want to set up a treatment tank and apply either coppersafe or Copper Power at therapeutic level 2.25 for a FULL 30 days (do not interrupt this 30 day period) monitored by a reliable Copper Test kit such as Hanna Brand- No API brand. Also monitor Ammonia levels while in quarantine with a reliable test kit and add aeration during treatment using an air stone.
The display tank will have to be kept fishless (FALLOW) for 6-8 weeks to assure the existing parasites go through their life cycle without a host fish and die off
A quarantine tank can be as simple as a tank from a second hand store or a starter kit from Walmart which most of the needed essentials.