Learned my lesson, now to fix it.

[Furyreaver]

I have a 75g that I have set up about 3 months ago, and everything was going great. I picked up two new wrasses for the tank, however, and I stupidly decided to acclimate and add them directly to the tank... (I've been in the hobby for 5 years and I've never used a QT, so I must have been extremely lucky up to this point.) The exquisite wrasse that I added has several small white spots just above his upper lip. None anywhere else on the body. My question is this. I put him in, observed, and caught/removed him to a QT within a 24hr window. Would the display still be in extreme danger of infection from this? Looking at the many life cycle images and posts for ich it seems like I may have caught it in time, however, I know it will take time to tell.

I'm going to feed foods with garlic and feed them well to try to make sure they don't come down with any ich, if its in the tank. As for the exquisite wrasse, I currently have him in the only other tank I had laying around, a 4g Finnex tank. I know this probably isn't big enough for him, but he seems to be ok at the moment. I put some rocks from the sump of the display tank into the 4g and I'm going to add some filter pads/bio media from the tank as well to ensure some bacteria are present. What should my treatment be for the exquisite? Should I go the Cupramine route?

Currently working on making a big batch of water so I can do water changes on this hospital tank. Hopefully I was able to catch this before it can become a nightmare.

 

[Furyreaver]

In this picture you can see the white spots. Sorry for the crap quality.

 

[Humblefish]

If it's just ich, you may have caught it in time. Before any of the trophonts fell off and encysted into tomonts. Only time will tell. But if it's velvet, you may be looking at a nightmare in the DT.

If it's ich, you could use the 4 gal plus a 5 gal bucket to implement TTM: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/tank-transfer-method.192655/

But if it's velvet, your best option is going to be to use copper in a larger QT.

 

[cmcoker]

I think Juvenile exquisite wrasse Have a white spot in their nose, so it may be totally normally. Maybe @eatbreakfast @evolved could confirm that

Edit to say, qt is still a good idea.

 

[Humblefish]

A better pic would help solve this.

 

[eatbreakfast]

That didn't look like ich to me, but a better pic would help.

Exquisite wrasses frequently have a white tip on their nose.

It is also not uncommon for grains of sand/sediment to stick to fairy wrasses, especially if it is soon after they emerged from their mucus cocoon.

 

[evolved]

I don't see ich either, fwiw.

 

[Furyreaver]

I will see if I can get a better picture. If nobody thinks it's ich from the picture, should I put him back in the display?

 

[eatbreakfast]

I will see if I can get a better picture. If nobody thinks it's ich from the picture, should I put him back in the display?

Remember your panic in the first post? If it is out of the dt why not finish the qt?

 

[omykiss001]

Remember your panic in the first post? If it is out of the dt why not finish the qt?

+1 if out of the DT and doing well in QT, i.e. eating and not acting stressed give it some time to observe if nothing else. Avoid stress of having to catch and remove 2x more if it really is a parasite.