Clown fish disease ID please!

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I finally caught my poor clown, he's been getting worse over a week's time. Anyone have any definitive idea of what he has do I can treat properly? 90% sure it's ich (considering it's been over a week and the physical appearance), but wondering if it might be fungal? I saw algae growing on his slime coat, never seen this before. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

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I finally caught my poor clown, he's been getting worse over a week's time. Anyone have any definitive idea of what he has do I can treat properly? 90% sure it's ich (considering it's been over a week and the physical appearance), but wondering if it might be fungal? I saw algae growing on his slime coat, never seen this before. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

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Looks alot like velvet.

But let some others chime in. I have a round of velvet earlier in the year and it killed all but two of my fish.

Id say a freshwater dip for right now to help him.
 
I should also mention that my other clown has it worse and it's is currently in hiding :( I'll make another attempt to catch her later. My two barred rabbit fish definitely has ich, and has pretty much since I got him about 4 weeks ago. I had a flame Angel fish have the same issue (introduced at the same time) that's now disappeared. I introduced a powder Brown tang admit two weeks ago- lfs swore it was eating, but never once ate anything I offered (it scavenged algae off the rocks), anyways, poor tang died a week later, and it looked very much like ich.

I've been treating with polyp lab MEDIC for over two weeks... Clearly it's not helping. It was recommended because it's reef safe and I couldn't manage to catch any of the fish before they hid in the rock work.
 

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