I’ve had this flame fin for about a week purchased at wwc he was doing great and as of yesterday started acting funny and stayed hiding, today I woke up and I notice he is less active and looks to have loss some color and is struggling to swim can he be treated?
Flame fin
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SeaJay
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They may appear to be doing fine, but they are all carrying ich. If you treat the tang in qt and then reintroduce him to the display he will likely just be reinfected. You’ll have to remove the fish, treat them all in qt and let your display go fallow for 76 days to eradicate the ich.
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If you are worried about all of your fish. You should remove them all and QT. If you are more towards the line of ich management you should feed well and hope the fish pulls through. After going through some Ich myself. I will always be QTing before putting in my DT.
If you have a slow flow rate through the UV it can kill some of the free floating ich. UV's do not eradicate ich in a tank.
If you have a slow flow rate through the UV it can kill some of the free floating ich. UV's do not eradicate ich in a tank.
4FordFamily
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Depending on the fish, a 40B to 55G is a good choice.
I wouldn't worry about the UV idea, very hard to utilize properly and things like velvet which are more dangerous generally still remain.
A coral banded shrimp isn't a cleaner, that's a real sick fish to approach a predator like that. Color loss is likely velvet. I do agree that I see ich in the photos for sure, but it's possible if not likely afflicted with more than one parasite/ailment. I agree with @HotRocks and @Tyler Bullock.
Remedies for these parasites will kill your coral. Those that don't kill your coral/inverts will not be effective against the parasites.
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sorry you're going through this. There's not much you can do without an established QT tank. Is there a group locally you can reach out to? maybe someone can put in their QT tank to treat.
Heres what you CAN do. Mix up high quality water and complete daily 5% water change , replace your mech filter media, and replenish your chemical filtration if you run it. clean skimmer pump venturi or replace wooden air stone, move circulation pumps as high in the tank as possible to really move top of water in DT. Dim your lights if possible for a few days to relive some stress on fish.
Heres what you CAN do. Mix up high quality water and complete daily 5% water change , replace your mech filter media, and replenish your chemical filtration if you run it. clean skimmer pump venturi or replace wooden air stone, move circulation pumps as high in the tank as possible to really move top of water in DT. Dim your lights if possible for a few days to relive some stress on fish.
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Well my tang is a goner unfortunately I was able to stop by a pets mart and pick up a quick 10 gal tank to use as a quarantine but it was to late. I do have my wave pumps aimed to move water at the top, I have a sumo so I will changer the filter sock, and I will clean out my slimmer, not sure what else I can do all my other fish are fine and have been, I just recently loss a new yellow wrasse and now this flame fin. All of my establish fish do very well, I never qt a fish I guess I will start doing so going forward
4FordFamily
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You'll need to treat all of your fish the same way you'd treat the tang that passed -- because the parasite will remain and attack any fish you add going forward, and will slowly harm your resident fish. Any stress event at all is likely to send even your incumbent fish in a downward spiral, unfortunately.
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If you’re on a budget right now. I personally would get three 10 gallon tanks (30$ for all) and split up the fish instead have all in one. It’s a bit stressful to keep copper maintained it be you’re best bet in my opinion m.
I’m going to be honest here but when I stared reefing which wasn’t that long ago I QT 8 fish in a 10 gal, never less they all survived but don’t ever try this.
Always QT fish and make sure the DT is fallowed for at least 76 days.
I’m going to be honest here but when I stared reefing which wasn’t that long ago I QT 8 fish in a 10 gal, never less they all survived but don’t ever try this.
Always QT fish and make sure the DT is fallowed for at least 76 days.
