Need help diagnosing white

floatchop · Oct 24, 2023

This guy is going down fast. No symptoms last night. Just got him into quarantine and barely moving, was just swimming around 5 mins ago.
I have Coppersafe, cupramine, and other stuff on hand.

Heavy breathing, dark spots, and whitefish skin.

Thanks for the help!

Jay Hemdal · Oct 24, 2023

floatchop said:
This guy is going down fast. No symptoms last night. Just got him into quarantine and barely moving, was just swimming around 5 mins ago.
I have Coppersafe, cupramine, and other stuff on hand.

Heavy breathing, dark spots, and whitefish skin.

Thanks for the help!

How long have you had this fish?

Although it may be too late, you could try a 5 minute freshwater dip followed by coppersafe.

Jay

floatchop · Oct 24, 2023

Only a couple days. Seemed fine till this morning.
Thank you Jay, ill try that

floatchop · Oct 24, 2023

Well he passed. That was so fast. No symptoms at all, then complete deterioration overnight. Well, im guessing there was symptoms and I just didn't see them.

Thanks for the quick response and advice.

MnFish1 · Oct 24, 2023

floatchop said:
Well he passed. That was so fast. No symptoms at all, then complete deterioration overnight. Well, im guessing there was symptoms and I just didn't see them.

Thanks for the quick response and advice.

One question - did you have any other fish with him - or was he exposed to other fish? Sorry he went so quickly

floatchop · Oct 24, 2023

Yes, six others. I think all I can do at this point is get the uv back to work and hope for the best.

MnFish1 · Oct 24, 2023

floatchop said:
Yes, six others. I think all I can do at this point is get the uv back to work and hope for the best.

I think you should quarantine the fish with the copper you have if possible (in a hospital tank)?

floatchop · Oct 24, 2023

I can't disagree, just don't have enough tanks to get all of them going in copper at the same time.

MnFish1 · Oct 24, 2023

floatchop said:
I can't disagree, just don't have enough tanks to get all of them going in copper at the same time.

Curious what other fish do you have? A second choice (far second) would be something you could do in your tank itself. What do you have.

floatchop · Oct 24, 2023

2 120 gallon tanks tied to 1 50 gallon sump. One side has a blond naso, six line, and a green clown goby. The other one has 2 banggai cardinals and a orchid doddyback, thats the tank the white tail was in. Inverts in both, as well as coral.

Thanks bunches for trying to help! Curious what I can do in the tank for this situation. I did put the uv back in....25 watt? I'll have to look.

MnFish1 · Oct 24, 2023

floatchop said:
2 120 gallon tanks tied to 1 50 gallon sump. One side has a blond naso, six line, and a green clown goby. The other one has 2 banggai cardinals and a orchid doddyback, thats the tank the white tail was in. Inverts in both, as well as coral.

Thanks bunches for trying to help! Curious what I can do in the tank for this situation. I did put the uv back in....25 watt? I'll have to look.

I would consider Ruby Rally Pro. However, a hospital tank - with copper etc would be the first choice. Just to reiterate, there are no other symptoms correct?