Help Needed Is it Ich in Hyposalinity?

[Uncledazza]

Help needed! I lost a flame angel last week to flukes. I had been in hyposalinity (SG 1.009 checked with Milwaukee and 12.2-12.4 on the apex, with ATK) in my DT for 2 weeks leading up to it. I treated the tank with Prazipro. Now on 3rd round of Prazipro (dosed yesterday) which as been run with 20 gal water change on reefer 350 every 5-6 days. Please help me ID what is going on here. The yellow tang has one spot just above the eye and the potters a couple of spots on each side. Having a bit of a bacterial bloom in the water (running vibrant). NO3 0 (Nyos), PO4 0 (Hanna low), PH 7-9/8.1, running Zeovit (media, start 3, bak & foodplus). Feeding metroplex, kanaplex & focus in my frozen with brightwell aminos plus nori and hatchery diet dry daily throughout the day. I have an a cupboard full of meds on standby. I don’t want to put copper in the DT(inverts have been in QT for over 76 days now) I have been hit with one thing after another her since setting the tank up in Feb. Everything has been through 30 days QT, 2 rounds Prazipro and either copper power or cupramine at recommended doses. Plus fresh water dips on entry to QT before going into the DT except the White tail tang, yellow tang and flame angel (now lost) which came from marine collectors (so should also be free of anything). The DT was sterilized with 6 gal bleach before livestock was introduced and rinsed many times with 7 stage zero TDS RODI water. I have taken care not to cross contaminate between the tanks. What am I doing wrong?!!!

 

[LAReefer4Life]

Sorry for your loss. Looks like it could be Lympho. Not the best pictures but doesn't look like ich.

Lymphocystis

Lymphocystis What You Need To Know: * This is a virus that many fish carry for life. The white nodules (cauliflower-like growths) can grow both externally and internally; so symptoms are not always visible. * There is no known cure for Lympho. However, feeding vitamin-enriched foods and...

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[Uncledazza]

Thank you for the reply Pathot.

I found more white spots on the potters angel yesterday and quite a few of the other fish started to flash without any visible signs, so did a 20 gal water change and added Ich-x. This morning the cyst on the yellow tang had fallen off (although I could still see a small scar where it had been and there seemed to be less on the potters. I will continue treatment with daily 20 gal water changes and have ordered another bottle! I have the 7 stage RODI with your water saver upgrade, so can produce 150 gal per day if needed. Maybe I am one of the unlucky ones that have flukes and white spot that can survive hypo! The Hypo is 4 weeks this weekend. The other thing that I thought about is that the QT tanks are 7 ft away from the DT in the same room and I read about aerosol transmission of marine disease via airborne and droplet transmission. Are my QT tanks too close to my DT?

I have been thinking about other 3 options other than continuing as above (which may never see the white spot eradicated completely;

• I have two 20 gal QT tanks (one for inverts with separate apex and one set up for fish). I could move the inverts into a separate holding container, move the fish into the 2 QT tanks and treat everything with copper.
• Drain and refill the DT with 1.026, add in the inverts and go fallow for 76 days keeping the fish in the two QT tanks. 30 day copper then water change out the copper and observe till the fallow period in the DT is over. Treat anything that shows up in that time.
• Sanitize the DT tank with 6 gals bleach, run 48 hours, drain, dechlorinate, flush with tap water twice and then twice with RODI, recycle and add the Frags/inverts. Extreme, but will mean that I do not have to go fallow and can add livestock back in after 30 days copper in QT + a couple more weeks observation time. So effectively 6 weeks instead of the 11 weeks with the fallow period of option two.

I would really appreciate everyone opinion here…..

Current fish load;
1 Potters Angel
1 Yellow Tang
1 White Tail Tang
2 Black Clowns
3 Lyretail Anthias
5 Blue Chromis
1 Flame Hawkfish
1 Midas (New, currently in QT)
1 Flame Angel (New, currently in QT)

My tank is a Refer 350, 91 Gal with Caribsea Life rock & marinepure block
2 x Ai Twentysix
Clarisea 5000
Reef Octopus 110 Skimmer
Veovit with 1kg media
Ph 8.1-7-9
KH 5.9
NO3 0
PH4 0