I recently got a bicolor angel for my reef tank (ikr crazy and hasn’t picked on any corals) but it’s been a week and a half now that it’s out of its cave more often I realized that it has a white spot on its side and now it looks like my powder brown tang and maroon clown also have white spots but I never had this before so I am not very experienced with it. The spots seem to only be noticeable under direct light it shows it u look really closely and the fish is swimming around. It’s a 120 gal tank with a 30 gal refugium and no need of water changes just dosing every once in a while
in the cave on the angelfish u can’t see it but when it comes out u can def see one big white spot
Does my fish have ich?
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In a quarantine tank, with copper.
There are several medications marketed as "reef-safe", but as far as I'm aware, not one of them will help you deal with ich.
~B.
There are several medications marketed as "reef-safe", but as far as I'm aware, not one of them will help you deal with ich.
~B.
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The diffuse white splotch on the angel isn't ich. The one large spot I see on the clown isn't likely to be ich either. At first glance, I thought - the tang sure has ich. In looking again though, the distinct white spots I see on the tang, are also on the image in other areas, so may be spots on the glass or something? Can you get a clearer picture, without the blue light?
As mentioned, you will likely need to treat this with copper in a QT, or, depending on the relative value of your fish to invertebrates, you could treat in the DT and just give up on the inverts (not a likely option, but for example, I have a small tank in my office with just a couple of cheap frags in it. If I had a valuable fish in it, I might treat it there and just let the frags go, as opposed to losing the fish).
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As mentioned, you will likely need to treat this with copper in a QT, or, depending on the relative value of your fish to invertebrates, you could treat in the DT and just give up on the inverts (not a likely option, but for example, I have a small tank in my office with just a couple of cheap frags in it. If I had a valuable fish in it, I might treat it there and just let the frags go, as opposed to losing the fish).
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I have too many expensive coral to do that, I don’t have a quarantine tank setup but I have a 10 gal a 55 gal as spare tanks and idk how to set one up this tank used to be my brothers but he taught me the basics and I just keep it running
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If you don’t want to or can’t quarantine- then you can try to just get fish healthy and hope nothing dies. I’m some cases - healthy fish can beat Ick to the point it’s not deadly. it’s more of an ick management then eradication. But if ick in the tank, every new addition may be susceptible to ick. Any stress could cause an outbreak.
I’m pretty sure I have ick in my tank- every now and again I see specks on my blue hippo. But only a few and within a few days it goes away.
but ick can also be a death sentence to all of the fish. I think best is to remove fish and set up qt and treat.
hope this helps. Take care
I’m pretty sure I have ick in my tank- every now and again I see specks on my blue hippo. But only a few and within a few days it goes away.
but ick can also be a death sentence to all of the fish. I think best is to remove fish and set up qt and treat.
hope this helps. Take care
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You can do a TTM with these fish as well versus the copper and it requires minimal set up you will have to catch the fish though and it will probably stress them out trying to catch themI recently got a bicolor angel for my reef tank (ikr crazy and hasn’t picked on any corals) but it’s been a week and a half now that it’s out of its cave more often I realized that it has a white spot on its side and now it looks like my powder brown tang and maroon clown also have white spots but I never had this before so I am not very experienced with it. The spots seem to only be noticeable under direct light it shows it u look really closely and the fish is swimming around. It’s a 120 gal tank with a 30 gal refugium and no need of water changes just dosing every once in a whilein the cave on the angelfish u can’t see it but when it comes out u can def see one big white spot
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I dont see ich, but the pics are tough.
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Tank transfer method
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That’s going to be really tough to do, you’ll need to set the 55 up because the 10 is too small. You’ll need bacteria starter, seawater, filter and heater...then copper meds and a test kit.
The other option also isn’t good - just let it run its course and save the corals but likely lose the fish....
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Everybody has an opinion but I've never or rarely seen it run its course without just returning at the lest likely moment copper is hard on everything that gets put in to it. Every fish I have since finding about ttm has gone threw ttm I admit I have lost 1 fish this way on the other hand have lost several at a time using copper products. Ttm. can be stressful for fish but found greater success for sure without putting poison in my quarantine. Seemed a lot easier to not having to maintain copper levels and a full time quarantine tank.
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Or use the immunity method.
