Help is this ich?

chad8282 · Mar 30, 2021

Last night noticed 1 little speck that looked like ich not sure if it was so I used my rally pro but the kick ich won’t be in for a week. I woke up to all my fish covered completely in just a matter of over night and I have to go to work until this afternoon not much I can do now but hope

chad8282 · Mar 30, 2021

My wrasse and hawkfish have yet to get any on them. I recently qt and added a group of 6 damsels and they where clean as can be before adding them into display tank. Then the 2 little runts of the group started to get bullied bad just last night my plan was to get more live rock then next day but now I have a much bigger problem. Has this caused the smaller damsels to give off ich?

Jay Hemdal · Mar 30, 2021

Yes, that is almost assuredly ich, Cryptocaryon. People do not always have good results with kick ich, but rally pro sometimes works. The most effective treatment is copper, dosed in a treatment tank.

Jay

chad8282 · Mar 30, 2021

Jay Hemdal said:
Yes, that is almost assuredly ich, Cryptocaryon. People do not always have good results with kick ich, but rally pro sometimes works. The most effective treatment is copper, dosed in a treatment tank.

Jay

Those pictures are from this morning I just stopped for lunch and only had a few seconds literally to look at them. They all lost the spots? With just a few hours and a single dose of rally pro? Odd I’ll update when I’m back from work but they all looked spotless when I came back for lunch.

Jay Hemdal · Mar 30, 2021

chad8282 said:
Those pictures are from this morning I just stopped for lunch and only had a few seconds literally to look at them. They all lost the spots? With just a few hours and a single dose of rally pro? Odd I’ll update when I’m back from work but they all looked spotless when I came back for lunch.

Part of the ich life cycle is that the trophonts drop off and turn into tomonts. These then release theronts that reinfect the fish. It is very common during early stages of the infection for them to all be in sync and drop off at the same time - watch carefully to see if they return!
Jay