My fish have ick?

[Jvesche20]

Alright so 2 weeks ago I noticed these lumps on my blue tang I’m 100% sure it’s ick. Here’s a picture. It’s kinda hard to see but there were some on the fins.

Soon after I put the fish in a QT. I had 2 fish die in the process. One jumped out and other got sucked into the filter.

So my fish seem like they are struggling a bit in the QT. It looks like my snowflake eel is starting to lose the yellow on his body. My blue tang is looking the worst.

I tried the FW drip mentioned by another user. I didn’t notice anything come out of the fish when doing this. My fish likes to sit in the bottom of the tank sticking its self between the wall and part of the filter.

I have some other pictures to see if there’s ick still on the fish. You can see lumps but I’m not sure if it’s Ick.

I circled the part of where I’m not sure if it’s ick or not. I don’t want my fish to die stuck in a QT. They’ve been in there for 2 weeks now am I able to stick them back into my DT? I feel like the blue tang doesn’t have enough room to swim hence why the color is starting to fade but I’m not sure if this is the reason.

I just threw a power head in the QT a few hours ago to give it some more flow. Any help is great!

 

[Old Fritz]

Hello, I'm sorry that this is happening to you, it really sucks. There is a misconception that fw dips work on ich. Ich, once latched onto a fish is pretty much unkillable and you have a very small window to kill it when it's actually on the fish, that's why the dip didn't seem to have any impact. Ich is really only killed when it is hanging out in your water column before it attaches to a fish, or when you vacuum it out when it's in your gravel. There are plenty of treatments for ich (tangs, especially hippo tangs are super prone to ich) treatments range from copper down to herbal remedies. Copper is what most people would recommend, however i recommend getting copper with a test kit as well as you need to maintain a certain level of copper while not putting too much in as it is toxic to fish. here's a video with how to treat with it . The color fade is from stress, its something most tangs do.