Emergency! My fish are dying!

[Gravityband]

Hey guys, so I got my Fluval M90 36 gallon tank set up roughly 6 months now, everything is going well and we are loving the tank. Around March, we had an ich problem and treated our tank with Medic from Polyp Lab for like three straight weeks. Sometimes it seems like the situation is under control, sometimes seems like it came back with a revenge. Long story short I decided to go the cupper treatment route. I purchased a bunch of equipment to set up the hospital tank, and put the BioMax filter insert into my current tank trying to build up the bacteria colony. Just right after I did that, ich seems like they are gone. Then I decided to just leave that BioMax in my display tank and just wait and see if ich comes back.



Two months went by, nothing happened. Couple weeks ago, I decided to remove that BioMax from my tank simply because I didn’t think I needed it anymore. Sure enough, bad things started to happen, my long nose hawk started to hide behind a big rock and breath heavily, he still comes out when I feed frozen food. And this morning I found him dead. Now my clowns and Flame angel are doing the same, not swimming around, breathing heavily, hiding in rocks…and it seems like they got a layer of this foggy looking thing on their fins and bodies, which is not like ich I used to see on them..Can somebody please help me out and give us a few pointers..


Current Tank parameters:

Fluval M90

Salinity: 1.025

pH: 8.2

NO2: 0

NO3: 0

Ammonia: 0



Current Tank Mates:

2 Ocellaries Clowns

1 Long Nose Hawk

1 Flame Angel

1 Midas Blenny

1 Diamond Gobby

1 Fire shrimp

1 Arrow Crab

1 Pom Pom

2 Nassarius Snails

3 Fighting Conch

2 Margarita Snails

2 Trochus Snails

1 Blue Leg Hermit

1 Red Leg Hermit

1 Orange/Black Hermit

2 Zoanthids Frags

1 Pulsing Xenia

1 Frogspawn

1 Hairy Mushroom

 

[Maritimer]

Remember that hospital tank / quarantine you were working on? That is the direction you'll want to move, and move quickly. I'm on a phone, so can't see the videos well, but the symptoms you describe sound like either Brooklynella or velvet - both are swift killers.

@Humblefish , @HotRocks , can you gentlemen see the videos more clearly?

Velvet will respond to copper, preferably following a freshwater dip.

Brooklynella will respond to Metronidazole.

Both will respond to Chloroquine Phosphate, but that requires a prescription.

~Bruce

 

[Humblefish]

^^ Agree with Bruce

What you are thinking is ich, sounds more like velvet or brook:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/brooklynella.247938/

I would treat all fish as outlined here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/#post-2499437

Once they are all in QT, treat with copper + metronidazole (e.g. Seachem Metroplex).

 

[HotRocks]

These guys got you covered.

Bruce I can't see much in videos either. I agree though QT immediately and start treating.

 

[Gravityband]

@Maritimer @Humblefish @HotRocks

Just wanted to post and update some info here, my wife and I spent five hours last night going to local fish stores and set up everything. We chose not to do the freshwater dip because it was hard to get the freshwater to the same pH level as my display tank, we didn't wanna burden our fish more..so we did the Ruby Rally bath for 90 mins and now they are in a 20g QT with copper level of 0.8..Flame angel went back to be Gods angel this morning, but my two clowns, Midas blenny, and diamond goby survived the process...Just wanted to thank everyone for their support and commentaries.. we really appreciate it..

PS I also bought Seachem Kanaplex, should I purchase metroplex instead??

 

[HotRocks]

@Maritimer @Humblefish @HotRocks

Just wanted to post and update some info here, my wife and I spent five hours last night going to local fish stores and set up everything. We chose not to do the freshwater dip because it was hard to get the freshwater to the same pH level as my display tank, we didn't wanna burden our fish more..so we did the Ruby Rally bath for 90 mins and now they are in a 20g QT with copper level of 0.8..Flame angel went back to be Gods angel this morning, but my two clowns, Midas blenny, and diamond goby survived the process...Just wanted to thank everyone for their support and commentaries.. we really appreciate it..

PS I also bought Seachem Kanaplex, should I purchase metroplex instead??

You are on the right track!

I personally would keep metroplex, kanaplex, and Furan-2 on hand

 

[Gravityband]

Guys I woke up to this this morning...one of my clowns tail fin is laying on the bottom of the QT ..what do I do...is this where Kanaplex comes into play? Help!

 

[hdsoftail1065]

#reefsquad

 

[HotRocks]

Are they in copper + Metroplex?

 

[Gravityband]

Are they in copper + Metroplex?

They are in copper. Metroplex is arriving in two days. I have Kanaplex on hand...

 

[Reigun]

Sounds like fin rot. Use melafix. My buddy had a new clownfish that was losing his tail and melafix stopped the rot and the tail grew back. Good luck.

 

[HotRocks]

I see white stringy poop in the pic.

That means internal parasites and or worms. You can use metroplex mixed with food.

Best option would be to mix genreal cure by API into food this contains both metronidazole, and praziquantel. Bind it to the food with seachem focus. This will cover both worms and intestinal parasites.

 

[Reigun]

New spectrum has a new food product called hex shield that helps with internal parasites too.

 

[Humblefish]

New spectrum has a new food product called hex shield that helps with internal parasites too.

... but most fish won't eat it