HELP PLEASE

[Mau5665]

i think my blue tang has ich, but i am unsure. it has white fuzzy spots, and a white "splinter", can someone look at this picture and confirm?


the 2 fuzzy white spots are on the left fin which i couldnt get a clear picture of. none of my other fish seem to have this issue.

[Reefing Madness]

Does not look like Ich to me...At this point. Mine is always carrying around something white on him, but I think its because of all the rocks he likes diving into when someone goes to look in the tank.

[Mau5665]

it seems to have gotten worse over a few hours (about 6) there are more spots on the same side, and now some on the tailfin, and now has some on its other side as well, seems to be irritated, keeps trying to rub on rocks, and keeps raising top dorsal fin. any ideas of what it might be?

[Original Fin]

Not to disagree with Reefingmadness, but I was thinking marine ich from your first post. More showing up in a short time is also indicative of MI.

Do you have a quarantine/hospital tank you can set up?

Is your tank a reef, or fish only?


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[Mau5665]

reef tank, no hospital tank set up yet, but i am in the processes of setting it up as i post! lol - i am not looking forward to the 8 week minimum, or catching the fish, i have a helfritchi that is waaay to smart for its own good and fits into all my rock very nicely!

[Mau5665]

and also, my juvenile harlequin tusk has spots now too! ugh, well thank you all for your help, 1 more question, my cleaner shrimp and pepermint shrimp can stay in the display tank right?

[Reefing Madness]

and also, my juvenile harlequin tusk has spots now too! ugh, well thank you all for your help, 1 more question, my cleaner shrimp and pepermint shrimp can stay in the display tank right?

Yea, there is not need to move them. And I might add, they are not doing their jobs very well are they.

[Original Fin]

Yes. Inverts wont host the parasite.

Best of luck!


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[Reefing Madness]

Not to disagree with Reefing Madness, but I was thinking marine ich from your first post. More showing up in a short time is also indicative of MI.

Do you have a quarantine/hospital tank you can set up?

Is your tank a reef, or fish only?


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I never jump the gun, especially with only one or two spots, if I did that my fish would all have Ich just from runnin them back and forth to QT. But, you are correct, the second set of pics are nasty, and that fast means the fish are stressed out big time.

[Original Fin]

I never jump the gun, especially with only one or two spots, if I did that my fish would all have Ich just from runnin them back and forth to QT. But, you are correct, the second set of pics are nasty, and that fast means the fish are stressed out big time.

That's definitely good advice.


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[leebca]

Mau,

Make sure you go to the sticky post: Curing Fish of Marine Ich and follow it along.