Help! A Lot Going On!

[Hnsmith88]

We've had our 110gal up and running with fish for just over 2 months. Everyone has been awesome until I noticed ich on my very small blue Caribbean tang. Our LFS told us to use kick ich and Rally Pro. Within 12hrs of the first rally treatment, i found my goatfish dead. Within 6hrs of the 2nd treatment I found one of me 2 wrasses dead. We stopped Rally and have just been using kick ich. After just over 2 rounds, our little blue died. It never seemed to get better, however no one else showed signs. We found him dead Sunday AM. (Firet ich treatment was July 15, yesterday being Aug 16). By Sunday afternoon, my Hawaiian Saddleback wrasse (my absolute favorite), is now acting very strange. From day 1 he has been a crazy active fish (deemed himself the name psycho). He has always swam all over, fast, sliding against the glass, sand, etc. From what I read before, that's not abnormal for that type. Now, he will just lay around, then randomly swim around, then go back to laying around. When he swims, he is his usual self. He is eating great, but he is just super inactive compared to normal. Any thoughts on what could be going on? He was still alive this morning, ate good at breakfast, and was swimming before I left for work. We are continuing our last kick ich cycle still.

 

[Qasimja]

are you sure its not marine velvet and not ich? ich doesnt usually kill fish that quickly fish can live with ich for a long time and marine velvet can take out your entire tank in a weekend

 

[Hnsmith88]

It took the blue over a month before he died. He showed ich July 14, and died Aug 16. I wondered velvet too but LFS said that's too long of a timeframe for it to be velvet.

 

[leighla]

I am so sorry about this situation, I have been there (recently) and it is sad and maddening and just overwhelming at times!
I tried kick ich (primarily because the thought of pulling the fish out of my heavily scaped 150 felt impossible) but I kept losing fish. Not to mention trying to explain to my husband the deep need and utility of both a quarantine tank and hospital tank was a conversation I dreaded ($$$).

I kept reading all of the excellent threads on here about how to treat fish using a hospital tank, copper, metro, prazipro, etc (depends on the illness), and that is exactly what I have had to do to save any of my fish. I had to pull them ASAP, put in the hospital tank and begin treating with copper. I now have a fishless DT while I rid it of parasites, but at least some of my fish are recovering in the hospital tank!

Velvet moves fast, but it can take 48 hours and it comes in waves over weeks as the new "free swimmers" hatch and find a new fish host.
Stay on here, post pics of your sick fish and move fast! The overwhelming consensus on threads like this will be to treat your fish in a medicated hospital tank, and that advice is based on experience, research and consistent success in healing fish! This is a great place to find step-by-step procedures to help your fish and tank recover.

Hang in there, keep reading and know you aren't alone in this experience. Best of luck!

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

We've had our 110gal up and running with fish for just over 2 months. Everyone has been awesome until I noticed ich on my very small blue Caribbean tang. Our LFS told us to use kick ich and Rally Pro. Within 12hrs of the first rally treatment, i found my goatfish dead. Within 6hrs of the 2nd treatment I found one of me 2 wrasses dead. We stopped Rally and have just been using kick ich. After just over 2 rounds, our little blue died. It never seemed to get better, however no one else showed signs. We found him dead Sunday AM. (Firet ich treatment was July 15, yesterday being Aug 16). By Sunday afternoon, my Hawaiian Saddleback wrasse (my absolute favorite), is now acting very strange. From day 1 he has been a crazy active fish (deemed himself the name psycho). He has always swam all over, fast, sliding against the glass, sand, etc. From what I read before, that's not abnormal for that type. Now, he will just lay around, then randomly swim around, then go back to laying around. When he swims, he is his usual self. He is eating great, but he is just super inactive compared to normal. Any thoughts on what could be going on? He was still alive this morning, ate good at breakfast, and was swimming before I left for work. We are continuing our last kick ich cycle still.

Can you post some pics?

Are there invertebrates or is it FOWLR?

Jay

 

[Hnsmith88]

Can you post some pics?

Are there invertebrates or is it FOWLR?

Jay

I am rushing to set up another QT as my boyfriend said my wrasse looks very bad. I'm going to take all my fish out and leave my inverts and mandarin Goby in the sick tank for right now. I think it's worth the investment for a quick QT tank for these guys than let then suffer and die. I can post pics once I'm done.

 

[Hnsmith88]

Update: we set up our QT tank for everyone that night. Everyone else is doing ok, but my little psycho was gone this morning.
Continuing copper treatment on the others, and will until we know it's gone. Then starting from scratch on my reef tank.