Is this ICH?

Jvesche20 · Jul 25, 2019

I got home today after adding new lights to my tank and noticed my purple tang and my PBT have a bunch of spots. My copper band might have a few spots but I can’t tell. I have a dozen other fish that are completely fine and have no signs of anything on their body. Here’s some pics

Jvesche20 · Jul 25, 2019

All my fish are healthy and eat. I just fed ich guard pellets to my fish. Hopefully that will help

Mjrenz · Jul 25, 2019

It's hard to tell from the pics, is there any chance you could try getting some pics under white light?

Hemmdog · Jul 25, 2019

I don’t see anything. Maybe on the purple tang.

Jvesche20 · Jul 25, 2019

Here’s 2 better pictures

mtdaly85 · Jul 25, 2019

I'm leaning towards Ich. It could be the early signs of velvet, but I doubt that. Velvet hits and hits hard (quickly). This looks like ich.

Mjrenz · Jul 25, 2019

They're still a bit blurry but that does look like ich, the only way to eradicate it would be to treat all of your fish in hospital tanks, copper or cp are the most common treatments, and leave your dt fallow for 76 days. Most fish can survive with ich in the system but tangs are more susceptible to it

Jvesche20 · Jul 25, 2019

Do I need to take out my snowflake eel?

Mjrenz · Jul 26, 2019

Jvesche20 said:
Do I need to take out my snowflake eel?

To eradicate ich he would need to come out also, corals and inverts are ok to stay in during a fallow period. Can you provide a list of all your fish? Some species are intolerant of certain treatments, eels cannot tolerate copper

Mjrenz · Jul 26, 2019

Also, I don't want to push you into something if your not comfortable with it, read this to help you make a decision on what's best for your tank

Ich eradication vs. Ich management

Ich eradication vs. Ich management The purpose of this article is to discuss the pros & cons of ich eradication and ich management, and present the best methods for implementing each. Ich eradication - Simply put, this method means doing everything possible to keep ich out of your tank. That...

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Jholli90 · Jul 26, 2019

Mjrenz said:
To eradicate ich he would need to come out also, corals and inverts are ok to stay in during a fallow period. Can you provide a list of all your fish? Some species are intolerant of certain treatments, eels cannot tolerate copper

What do you use if something is intolerant of copper?

Mjrenz · Jul 26, 2019

Chloroquine phosphate (cp) or the tank transfer method (ttm) are two other options. Here's List of treatments that can be used for different diseases http://humble.fish/community/index.php?threads/medications-and-treatments.4/
Make sure to post here first before you settle on any particular treatment so we can make sure that it's safe for all the fish you plan to treat

Jvesche20 · Jul 26, 2019

I have a purple tang, powder blue tang, sail fin tang, 3 chromis, 2 clowns, diamond goby, snowflake eel, 6 line wrasse, scooter blenny, lawnmower blenny, copper band butterfly and an assorted tang. What should I do? When I had my purple tang in copper when he was in QT he didn’t do well. He wouldn’t eat and just sat on the bottom on the tank. Had to take him out and put him into my DT and he recovered (this was 6+ months ago)

Jvesche20 · Jul 26, 2019

I think I’m gonna ride it out. All the fish are healthy or appear to be. They are all eating and phat.

Is it possible that the fish could’ve gotten stressed from new lights. I went from black box to kessil/t5 hybrid

Mjrenz · Jul 26, 2019

Jvesche20 said:
I think I’m gonna ride it out. All the fish are healthy or appear to be. They are all eating and phat.

Is it possible that the fish could’ve gotten stressed from new lights. I went from black box to kessil/t5 hybrid

That's a possibility, it doesn't take much to provoke an ich outbreak in a powder blue especially. Many people manage ich and are very successful and some aren't. If you decide that you do want to have an ich free system we can help you through it.

Jvesche20 · Jul 26, 2019

Mjrenz said:
That's a possibility, it doesn't take much to provoke an ich outbreak in a powder blue especially. Many people manage ich and are very successful and some aren't. If you decide that you do want to have an ich free system we can help you through it.

Well it looks like the white spots are gone on the pbt. There’s less on the purple tang. I’ve been feeding them icy guard pellets so hopefully that will help. I just don’t know how well the fish will handle the copper and be in a 55Gal QT tank. I have an assorted tang in my frag tank and when I tried to move it over to my DT he got attacked and lost most of his fins. He recovered now but I’m scared if I put it in the same tank they will kill each other. Also not sure how a diamond goby will do with a bare bottom tank. And my eel not sure what I would do with the eel. I think with the fish I have now it’s best to ride it out and hope for the best