Can Anyone Identify?

[mnikes04]

Want to do proper treatment.

 

[JATReef]

Looks like White Spot (ich) or possibly marine velvet. Remove the fish from your display asap and qt with a copper treatment. There are plenty of threads on here discussing the treatment of both diseases.

 

[mnikes04]

This is the only fish in the tank. I lost the other two. It is a new tank.

 

[Topekoms]

Burn it with fire!!! Oh I meant the fish mean suckers. But I do agree with the above use copper in a quarantine tank

 

[ScottB]

This is the only fish in the tank. I lost the other two. It is a new tank.

Sorry to welcome you to R2R under these circumstances. You might be able to save it in a quarantine tank with copper. It does look like ich to me but I am not a fish disease expert. There are several threads here on how to set up a QT tank. You can also call your LFS to see if they have one running (most do).

How quickly did the other two fish expire once you saw symptoms?

The majority opinion on a tank with ich is to leave it running fallow (no fish) for 75 long days so that they starve out.

Do not dose copper to your display tank.

 

[mnikes04]

They died overnight but I think they were over stressed. I think they died from my parameters out of wack. Honestly i dont really care about the damsel. I just want to be able to put clowns in my display. Got these from my LFS which is a bummer

 

[ScottB]

Your call on letting the tank go fallow to starve out the parasites. Strong opinions here on both sides.

Before your next fish, research heavily "fish acclimation" methods here. Fish stress during transitions batters their immune system.

 

[JATReef]

Would be a good idea to set up fresh or wait out the fallow period before adding your clowns, likely they will come down with Ich/Velvet also.

Was this tank cycles before you added the fish?

 

[mnikes04]

What do you mean fresh? Remove water and sand?

 

[45ZoaGarden]

Not gonna lie, since it’s the only fish, I don’t think it’s worth saving. I agree we should do the best we can do for our fish as they are our responsibility. As cruel as it sounds, is it really worth trying to save it? It’s just a $5 damsel. The copper treatment will cost you $20. And you have to go through the trouble of getting a test kit and setting up a qt etc...

 

[45ZoaGarden]

Let the tank go fallow for awhile and run a uv for long term disease prevention

 

[Malifry97]

You are gonna need a QT in the future, so why not set one up now. Put the damsel in the QT with copper and let the tank run fishless with no new invert additions for 76 days.

 

[CasaReefer]

Thread Links to All Things Quarantine - Fish/Inverts

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[CasaReefer]

 

[JATReef]

Not gonna lie, since it’s the only fish, I don’t think it’s worth saving. I agree we should do the best we can do for our fish as they are our responsibility. As cruel as it sounds, is it really worth trying to save it? It’s just a $5 damsel. The copper treatment will cost you $20. And you have to go through the trouble of getting a test kit and setting up a qt etc...

Depends, me personally I would try my best to save the fish (to the best of my mental and financial abilities).
At the end of the day, these fish are our pets and we have the responsibility of taking care of them, therefore personally I would try and at least take all the practical measures i can to save a fish.

However, the likelihood is this fish might not make it, even in a treated QT system. Therefore to give any new livestock you add to the system the best chance of thriving i I would wait out the fallow period, or yes fresh. Replace or treat liverock and replace sand as well as doing a full vinegar bath on all equipment. S

 

[mnikes04]

I tend to agree. I am going to need a quarantine tank anyway. I think it is more about going through the process anyway. I was using the damsels as a source of ammonia ( suggestion of my LFS) but am changing things and going fishless. I will need to the tank to sit anyway now for a couple months unless I start from scratch. I was thinking 5 gallon for quarantine tank. Lessons learned guys.

 

[JATReef]

I tend to agree. I am going to need a quarantine tank anyway. I think it is more about going through the process anyway. I was using the damsels as a source of ammonia ( suggestion of my LFS) but am changing things and going fishless. I will need to the tank to sit anyway now for a couple months unless I start from scratch. I was thinking 5 gallon for quarantine tank. Lessons learned guys.

Sounds like a good idea, the fallow period will also give your tank the perfect time to cycle properly and be ready for those clowns! And in future, you will have a QT ready and the experience of medicating and treating a fish, even if this time it doesn't work out.

Im consistently surprised that LFS are still advising people to use a fish to cycle a tank, :mad:, but this hobby as always about learning, sometimes from our mistakes.

 

[mnikes04]

At least they were 5.00 damsels. Gonna grab a tank and heater and going to put this guy in it. I owe it to him to try and save him. How do you guys keep the water change temperature from changing the water temp in the display tank so drastically? Should i use the water from my biocube for the Qt?

 

[45ZoaGarden]

At least they were 5.00 damsels. Gonna grab a tank and heater and going to put this guy in it. I owe it to him to try and save him. How do you guys keep the water change temperature from changing the water temp in the display tank so drastically? Should i use the water from my biocube for the Qt?

I usually don’t do anything. But I’m in Florida and the water’s always 80°. You could just drop a heater in the bucket of water to warm it up.

 

[mnikes04]

I am in Mass