Is this Brook?

[burningmime]

You can see spots all over the back of the body.

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[JumboShrimp]

I hope they are not swimming into the powerhead flow due to Marine Velvet.

 

[burningmime]

I hope they are not swimming into the powerhead flow due to Marine Velvet.

Yes, they're swimming into the powerhead. They weren't constantly doing it, but I was standing there, so they wanted me to feed them. I will check tomorrow if the spots are so numerous it looks like Velvet; if so they're probably all dead :-(.

They probably have every disease in the book at this point. I ordered 3 fish from Blue Zoo in a batch and it was a bad batch. The blue tang never went in the tank; it was missing a fin and couldn't swim. The foxface was dead the next morning. The purple tang is the last survivor and he's not in great shape as you can see.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Yes, they're swimming into the powerhead. They weren't constantly doing it, but I was standing there, so they wanted me to feed them. I will check tomorrow if the spots are so numerous it looks like Velvet; if so they're probably all dead :-(.

They probably have every disease in the book at this point. I ordered 3 fish from Blue Zoo in a batch and it was a bad batch. The blue tang never went in the tank; it was missing a fin and couldn't swim. The foxface was dead the next morning. The purple tang is the last survivor and he's not in great shape as you can see.

This fish are moving around too fast to get a good view, but the purple tang seems to have ich. I don't see any evidence of Brooklynella. It is possible or course to have multiple diseases at the same time. The best way to differentiate between ich and velvet is in the latter case, the fish will go off their feed and breath fast/heavy. With ich, that doesn't happen until near the end of the infection, and early on, you will see distinct white spots with ich that will not be visible with velvet.

If you can isolate the fish - copper would be the best course of action (won't work for Brook though). If you think you can rule out velvet, you could then consider hyposalinity (no inverts of course). Tank Transfer won't work for velvet, and won't work in this case unless you have a clean tank to move the fish into afterwards.

Jay

 

[burningmime]

This fish are moving around too fast to get a good view, but the purple tang seems to have ich. I don't see any evidence of Brooklynella. It is possible or course to have multiple diseases at the same time. The best way to differentiate between ich and velvet is in the latter case, the fish will go off their feed and breath fast/heavy. With ich, that doesn't happen until near the end of the infection, and early on, you will see distinct white spots with ich that will not be visible with velvet.

If you can isolate the fish - copper would be the best course of action (won't work for Brook though). If you think you can rule out velvet, you could then consider hyposalinity (no inverts of course). Tank Transfer won't work for velvet, and won't work in this case unless you have a clean tank to move the fish into afterwards.

Jay

Thanks Jay!

It seems to be the opposite of "off its feed"; holy cowfish it just murdered a sheet of Nori. I will monitor to see if it gets worse, but hopefully iy's just ich.