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[To(meany)Tang]

Can somebody please help me figure out what's going on. I have an Exquisite wrass who has had a white patch on his skin for a couple weeks now and it seems like it's getting a little bigger also here in the video I have a snowstorm clownfish that is growing black specks all over it I don't know if it's hypermillanization or Brooke but I know that my fish did just get ich a week ago from a fish I brought from pgs. My fault for not doing qt lesson learned for sure. any ideas what this could be and if it happened to be bacterial can i treat for ich and bacteria at the same time ? Thank you for your time. Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Looks like two different issues and neither seem to be any of the main infectious diseases (ich, velvet, Brook or flukes). The clown could have hypermelanization, but I didn’t see any corals that might have caused that. It could be turbellarians (black ich) but I don’t recall ever seeing a clown get that.
The lesion on the wrasse is localized, could be a bacterial infection from an injury. I don’t think it requires treatment….yet. Do you have a hospital tank available?
Jay

 

[To(meany)Tang]

Looks like two different issues and neither seem to be any of the main infectious diseases (ich, velvet, Brook or flukes). The clown could have hypermelanization, but I didn’t see any corals that might have caused that. It could be turbellarians (black ich) but I don’t recall ever seeing a clown get that.
The lesion on the wrasse is localized, could be a bacterial infection from an injury. I don’t think it requires treatment….yet. Do you have a hospital tank available?
Jay

I dont own any corals and the clown started off white but has grown a few black spots in the last couple months. Within the last week the spots have multiplied and its only on the clownfish. This wrasse would be the one to get a bacterial because he hit his eye when I first got him on a rock amd healed fine and he always burrows under rocks as well. The ich was my main concern thinking it led to further problems. I will post pic below of the emperor snapper I brought into my tank from lfs where ich layed dormant. My clowns harrased him and the ick popped up. I took him back but now I have this issue. Could I treat coppersafe and API melafix at same time? Im new to saltwater I don't want to mess it up. The issues only showed with these 2 fish. All the other are just showing regular ich symptoms of flashing. I just started feeding garlic and selcon 3 days ago. What would you recommend? Thank you

 

[To(meany)Tang]

Looks like two different issues and neither seem to be any of the main infectious diseases (ich, velvet, Brook or flukes). The clown could have hypermelanization, but I didn’t see any corals that might have caused that. It could be turbellarians (black ich) but I don’t recall ever seeing a clown get that.
The lesion on the wrasse is localized, could be a bacterial infection from an injury. I don’t think it requires treatment….yet. Do you have a hospital tank available?
Jay

And yes I have a separate 10 gallon I could set up but I dont have a cycled qt tank

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

And yes I have a separate 10 gallon I could set up but I dont have a cycled qt tank

Well, the emperor snapper wouldn’t have worked out with your fish anyway, they get huge.
Skip the melafix, it’s just a herbal tonic. Coppersafe can be dosed in your DT, but you’ll need a good test kit and redose over time as the sand and rock will adsorb some of the copper. What about trying a hyposalinity treatment?
Jay

 

[To(meany)Tang]

Well, the emperor snapper wouldn’t have worked out with your fish anyway, they get huge.
Skip the melafix, it’s just a herbal tonic. Coppersafe can be dosed in your DT, but you’ll need a good test kit and redose over time as the sand and rock will adsorb some of the copper. What about trying a hyposalinity treatment?
Jay

Yes I was planning on returning him when he got bigger. It was a pretty fish for the time being

Well, the emperor snapper wouldn’t have worked out with your fish anyway, they get huge.
Skip the melafix, it’s just a herbal tonic. Coppersafe can be dosed in your DT, but you’ll need a good test kit and redose over time as the sand and rock will adsorb some of the copper. What about trying a hyposalinity treatment?
Jay

I tried hyposalinity with a few fish I recieved from online fish store and while most did well ..it killed a healthy pearlscale butterfly that came with the order and when I talked to my lfs the guy who says he's been reefing over 20 yrs told me that hyposalinity is for experts and that I shouldn't worry about that. So all of that has scared me away from hypo