Help sick fish!

lost02 · Jan 31, 2014

ks_reeftank · Jan 31, 2014

Can u describe this more. I see the white spots on fins and body.

Reefing Madness · Jan 31, 2014

Kinda be looking like Ich, and the smeared white may be from him scratching. New fish? Old fish? Anything new added to the tank?

ks_reeftank · Jan 31, 2014

I thought it looked smeared too. Threw me off. Made me think bacteria. Ich is good guess at this point. Def need to know more about your tank.

lost02 · Jan 31, 2014

Tank is few months old only has him and neon goby n 3 sexy shrimp I did just add a green clown goby and some bumblebee snails a few days ago. I started a reef safe Ich treatment and food with garlic

falconut · Jan 31, 2014

Did the green clown goby die? If it's ich, you'll need to pull them both and treat in QT with hypo or cupramine. I've tried food and garlic for ich before, but only seemed to help fish that had minor signs. From the photo, it kind of looks more than just a minor case.

lost02 · Jan 31, 2014

falconut said:
Did the green clown goby die? If it's ich, you'll need to pull them both and treat in QT with hypo or cupramine. I've tried food and garlic for ich before, but only seemed to help fish that had minor signs. From the photo, it kind of looks more than just a minor case.

No green goby seems fine. I've had ich in an old tank once before. Never seen it look so bad so fast

ks_reeftank · Jan 31, 2014

Most will say reef safe treatments dont work. Some will say they do. I know qt and cupramine works great

lost02 · Jan 31, 2014

Thanks all. Put my guy in qt.

Reefing Madness · Jan 31, 2014

Oh, ICH can get outta hand really fast if that fish is stressed out.

ks_reeftank · Jan 31, 2014

Treat all fish. Leave tank fallow 8 weeks

Small triggers · Jan 31, 2014

And just so you know...sometimes having 2 clown gobies -they will continuously fight till ones dead if the tank is not large enough for them to stake out their own territory....

Deinonych · Jan 31, 2014

ks_reeftank said:
Treat all fish. Leave tank fallow 8 weeks

+1

The spots on the pectoral fins and tail are almost certainly cryptocaryon. Treatment with copper (I prefer Cupramine) is your best bet. Don't bother with "reef safe" treatments...they don't work.