So just when I think I have my tank where it needs to be, I'm thrown for a loop once again. I have a 150G Waterbox tank that's been up and running for 2 years with proper water levels across the board, yet I came down with what I thought was ich, but now I'm thinking it could be velvet and I wanted some opinions with the pictures I've attached.
Over the last two weeks I've been consistently losing fish and I thought the white spots on their bodies were ich, but I wanted some second opinions. I just lost my tomato fish and it's a consistent amount of white/black within it's gills/body. My blue hippo has been active and appeared to have similar spots last week, but now seems lively and is the least of my concern, but my other tang went through a bad case last week and is extremely torn up looking with what I assumed were cuts from scratching up against the rock, but it seems like everyday there is a new dark spot appearing on his body.
Does this look like Ich, Velvet, or another disease? I've lost several fish before I was able to get a quarantine tank up and running, and at this point I'm wondering if this will even save the few fish left in the tank still active. Currently there's a green chromis, snowflake clown, spotted goby, blue hippo tang, and surgeon tang still in the tank, but I've curious if this is going to continue jumping from fish to fish like it has been. My concern is that I know I'll have a tough time catching the goby and keeping the tank fallow, yet I know this is going to be the best option. I'd like to add that I've been dosing the tank with Kick Ich the last week since I didn't want to lost my coral/inverts, but clearly it doesn't seem to be working. The pics below are of my clown in the sump before it eventually passed, and the others are recent pics of the tangs in my DT.
Over the last two weeks I've been consistently losing fish and I thought the white spots on their bodies were ich, but I wanted some second opinions. I just lost my tomato fish and it's a consistent amount of white/black within it's gills/body. My blue hippo has been active and appeared to have similar spots last week, but now seems lively and is the least of my concern, but my other tang went through a bad case last week and is extremely torn up looking with what I assumed were cuts from scratching up against the rock, but it seems like everyday there is a new dark spot appearing on his body.
Does this look like Ich, Velvet, or another disease? I've lost several fish before I was able to get a quarantine tank up and running, and at this point I'm wondering if this will even save the few fish left in the tank still active. Currently there's a green chromis, snowflake clown, spotted goby, blue hippo tang, and surgeon tang still in the tank, but I've curious if this is going to continue jumping from fish to fish like it has been. My concern is that I know I'll have a tough time catching the goby and keeping the tank fallow, yet I know this is going to be the best option. I'd like to add that I've been dosing the tank with Kick Ich the last week since I didn't want to lost my coral/inverts, but clearly it doesn't seem to be working. The pics below are of my clown in the sump before it eventually passed, and the others are recent pics of the tangs in my DT.