Is This ick

[bshapiro19]

Hello all,

Yesterday I purchased a powder blue from my LFS. At the store I didn't notice, but after acclimation I noticed what looks like fuzzballs the color of their skin on the fishes side. Wondering if this is ick or another disease/parasite. Appreciate any help.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Brad

 

[i cant think]

Hello all,

Yesterday I purchased a powder blue from my LFS. At the store I didn't notice, but after acclimation I noticed what looks like fuzzballs the color of their skin on the fishes side. Wondering if this is ick or another disease/parasite. Appreciate any help.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Brad

It looks more like velvety to me as the spots appear extremely small and close together.

 

[jakefitz]

Cloudy eye or just the pic?

 

[Sharkbait19]

How is the fish acting?
Breathing fast?
It does look more like velvet based on the pic, but it’s hard to tell if I’m looking at spots or it’s just the photo quality.
Either way, I’d get it (and all other fish) into copper and fallow the tank to be safe.

 

[bshapiro19]

How is the fish acting?
Breathing fast?
It does look more like velvet based on the pic, but it’s hard to tell if I’m looking at spots or it’s just the photo quality.
Either way, I’d get it (and all other fish) into copper and fallow the tank to be safe.

Thank you for responses. Yes velvet is a better description. Eyes are not cloudy and fish is acting perfectly normal. Did eat Marine 5 pellets this morning at feeding time.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Can you post a video on YouTube and link it here? With velvet fish will typically be breathing fast, swimming into flow, etc.

 

[KrisReef]

That fish has some kind of skin challenge going on. Feed fresh chopped clams, oysters, or mussels to improve the fishes comfort in the new system and to boost the fishes natural immunity response to beat the infection.

Do your other resident fish have any similar discolorations of the skin?

 

[bshapiro19]

Apologize for my delay, we hosted Thanksgiving yesterday. Sad update, I woke up this morning to find the powder blue dead. He didn't even last 48 hours in my tank. All other fish/inverts look perfectly normal. I slowed down the flow on my UV sterilizer to hopefully prevent any disease spread. I do greatly appreciate the responses from this community.

 

[dburnn]

Apologize for my delay, we hosted Thanksgiving yesterday. Sad update, I woke up this morning to find the powder blue dead. He didn't even last 48 hours in my tank. All other fish/inverts look perfectly normal. I slowed down the flow on my UV sterilizer to hopefully prevent any disease spread. I do greatly appreciate the responses from this community.

Same happened to me with a yellow tang over the weekend. Got him Tuesday. Found him today at the bottom. Sucks

 

[bshapiro19]

Same happened to me with a yellow tang over the weekend. Got him Tuesday. Found him today at the bottom. Sucks

I'm sorry, that really suck. Hard enough finding a yellow tang.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I'm sorry, that really suck. Hard enough finding a yellow tang.

Sorry to hear. I would contact your LFS. With the short timing on this, and the fairly certain parasitic issue, this most likely stemmed from a problem on their end.

Keep a very close eye on your other fish and I would not add anything new to the tank for a couple of weeks.

Jay

 

[mnl119]

Thank you for responses. Yes velvet is a better description. Eyes are not cloudy and fish is acting perfectly normal. Did eat Marine 5 pellets this morning at feeding time.

Whether it's velvet or ick, it's same treatment (copper). The only time it would matter which one it is, is if you were going to do a fallow period as the periods are different.

 

[bshapiro19]

Whether it's velvet or ick, it's same treatment (copper). The only time it would matter which one it is, is if you were going to do a fallow period as the periods are different.

Won't the copper impact the coral? Should I dose copper immediately and assume there is an outbreak? Or wait until a fish shows a symptom?

 

[D3DPrintedThingz]

Won't the copper impact the coral? Should I dose copper immediately and assume there is an outbreak? Or wait until a fish shows a symptom?

I think the idea is to take all the fish out and QT or put into separate tank, run copper in that, and then fallow the DT

 

[bshapiro19]

I don't have a quarantine tank. Obvious reasons I should. Not going to make excuses because that's irrelevant at the moment. Knowing no QT, no symptoms in any other fish, coral in the tank is it worth still putting copper in or try to ride it out

 

[Sharkbait19]

Do not put copper in the tank - it will kill all the coral and inverts, and it is absorbed by rock making dosing very difficult.