Is this ich? Please help!

[tbow]

Hi there, I’m new to saltwater, I’ve had fresh water tanks for a while never have had issues, think my clown fish have ick… looks like they got it over night cause yesterday they looked fine. Still eating and active, can someone please help me.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

It's generally easiest to get help on these issues if you stick with a single thread in the right forum. Your previous thread in the disease forum was where you want it in this case, so I'll link that here and suggest you and others post over in that one.

Is this ICH?

I’m new to the whole saltwater world, she had two 55 gallon cichlid tanks and never had an issue, can someone tell me if this is ich in my clown? I’ve never seen it before nor know how to treat it, if anyone can help out thank you!! Small white dots? Almost like small air bubbles?

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[vetteguy53081]

Hi there, I’m new to saltwater, I’ve had fresh water tanks for a while never have had issues, think my clown fish have ick… looks like they got it over night cause yesterday they looked fine. Still eating and active, can someone please help me.

Oppsed to ich, looks like bacterial lesions associated with brooklynella and third case seen today.
The thick mucus on its body generally starts at the facial area as well as gills and spreads across the body producing lesions as it progresses often confused with ich and can turn into secondary bacteria. Other symptoms will be lethargic behavior, refusing to eat and heavy breathing from the mucus.
Typical treatment is a formalin solution is mixed with in a separate container with either fresh or saltwater. Start with a quick dip in the formalin at a higher concentration then performing treatment in a prolonged bath of formalin base at a lower concentration in a quarantine tank. The longer the fish are exposed to the formalin treatment the more effective it will be at eliminating this issue.
If a formalin solution is not available for immediate use, temporary relief can be achieved by giving the fish a FW bath or dip in water same temperature as display tank. Even though this treatment will not cure the disease, it can help to remove some of the parasites, as well as reduce the amount of mucus in the gills to assist with respiration problems.
Treatment is best done in a QT tank using either quick cure (more effective but now harder to find) or Ruby Rally Pro. Ruby takes a little longer and initial treatment generally takes 2-3 days to really start going to work.
With the advanced stage of this- I recommend immediate quarantine of all inhabitants and leaving display without fish for 4-6 weeks.