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Understood I’ll get back in an hr or so and take morePlease take pictures in white light.
Sounds good!Understood I’ll get back in an hr or so and take more
Understood.It isn’t velvet. It is either ich or brooklynella.
We need pictures and video under white light. Background info about the tank is also needed. This post explains all that:
Some Helpful Hints When Posting or Responding to Threads in the Fish Disease Treatment and Diagnosis Section
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Jay
Please take pictures in white light.
These pictures are as white as I can make my tankIt isn’t velvet. It is either ich or brooklynella.
We need pictures and video under white light. Background info about the tank is also needed. This post explains all that:
Some Helpful Hints When Posting or Responding to Threads in the Fish Disease Treatment and Diagnosis Section
Aquarium Fish Disease Problem Solving Determining the best course of action for a problem with your aquarium can be a difficult task. Even advanced aquarists will often need to seek the help of others for complicated or unique issues. Our intent here on Reef 2 Reef is to offer expert advice...www.reef2reef.com
Jay
It is only on my clownfish as of this moment from what I can see.If the infection is present on all fish, it’s ich. If prazipro has had no effect, definitely ich. Your first task is to remove the prazipro out of the water column because it can have a negative reaction to ich medication. Removal can be done through carbon & 25% WC. Options for ich are copper base medication but will need removal of all inverts & coral into a separate system. If removal of coral & inverts is not possible, Ruby reef kick ich or kordon ich attack are the “reef safe” options. The reef safe option still causes some harm to inverts & coral, in my experience with reef safe meds, there will still be some casualties in the none fish side of the system. Also reef safe meds take longer & more frequent dosing to start seeing positive effects but it will do the job. I highly suggest also doing a quick read on the cycles of ich & my personal practice is to quarantine fish for ich past 4 cycles. My recommendation would be a separate quarantine tank where you can add heavy copper base meds that are more effective & quick to kill off any infection. Either way, your main display has been infected & will need treatment to eradicate the parasite by starving it or medicating. Good luck.
Just realized I provided no background info.It isn’t velvet. It is either ich or brooklynella.
We need pictures and video under white light. Background info about the tank is also needed. This post explains all that:
Some Helpful Hints When Posting or Responding to Threads in the Fish Disease Treatment and Diagnosis Section
Aquarium Fish Disease Problem Solving Determining the best course of action for a problem with your aquarium can be a difficult task. Even advanced aquarists will often need to seek the help of others for complicated or unique issues. Our intent here on Reef 2 Reef is to offer expert advice...www.reef2reef.com
Jay
The loss of the powder brown caught me eye. They are really prone to ich. Prazipro has no affect on ich. The clownfish pictures just weren’t clear enough for me to determine if they have ich or brooklynella, but based on the powder brown dying, I’m thinking the tank has ich.Understood.
I’m almost home so I’ll respond shortly.
I did have a powder brown that I believed caught ich so I began dosing prazipro to try and eliminate secondary infections.
I just did a pretty stressful cleaning as I’m dealing with some red cyano and just overall maintenance parameters are good but the rocks had to get cleaned up
If it is ich how do I treat this in a reef tank with clams and inverts?
It’s not likely I ever catch the fish inside the aquarium
Perhaps the clowns I could catch pretty easily but the royal gramma wrasses etc forget about it
Just as an additional note I lost the powder brown a day after the cleaning probably from stress of the cleaning etc
These clowns I’ve have for over a year
Well it is what it is smh.The loss of the powder brown caught me eye. They are really prone to ich. Prazipro has no affect on ich. The clownfish pictures just weren’t clear enough for me to determine if they have ich or brooklynella, but based on the powder brown dying, I’m thinking the tank has ich.
Treatment in mixed tanks isn’t really possible once fish get a severe infection. That means moving the fish to a treatment tank and treating with Coppersafe for 30 days, then keeping them out of you display tank for an additional 30 days - not easy to do I’m afraid!
Well it is what it is smh.
I’ve lost the royal gramma bristletooth tang and the clown that were in the tank.
It sucks but I’m not risking my tanks inverts for the fish so I will let them work themselves out.
The fish that are left show 0 signs of illness minus the clown showing ich but he’s still eating and acting normally.
For the future as my tank is 100% likely to have ich and will likely never fully go away what’s the best course for ich management?
Thanks in advance