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Appears to be a heavy disintegration of mucus or bacterial possibly triggered by flukes ( just an assumption) and even from stress. I would give this fish a 5 min freshwater dip if fish is not breathing rapidly, the same water temp as display tank and place fish in quarantine and treat with Seachem Kanaplex OR PraziPro.Need help on what to do as well what is this on the fish.
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is fish eating and breathing normal?
is this a new fish ?
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Need help on what to do as well what is this on the fish.
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Can you post a video of it? I need to judge its respiration rate. Also, how long has it looked sick? What other fish are in with it?
I see a lot of mucus, but that can happen with long term ich, did you see white spots on it a few days ago?
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I can get you a video later today.
I want to say Friday it started to look sick but today look the worst. I have a purple tang, foxface, copperhead butterfly, clownfish, goby, damsel and anthias
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I watched the video a few times. Oddly, I could not see the white spots on the powder blue tang like in the picture before. No one fish was in focus long enough to get a respiration count, but they are all clearly breathing too fast. Some of the fish also have a general skin cloudiness. I would say then, that they have velvet.
Your treatment isn’t going to be easy - ASAP, you need to move all of the fish to a stable treatment tank and treat them with Coppersafe at 2.5 ppm for 30 days.
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Your treatment isn’t going to be easy - ASAP, you need to move all of the fish to a stable treatment tank and treat them with Coppersafe at 2.5 ppm for 30 days.
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How should I take care of the main tank?
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All the fish need to come out and then run the tank with no fish in it for 60+ days (ugh).
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How big of a QT tank should I get?
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That’s an issue - I counted 8 or 9 fish including some larger ones. I’d say a minimum of a 50 gallon, and then, you’ll need to have a fully operational biofilter to keep the ammonia under control….and this all has to be done ASAP. … not something that is easily done.
Here is another thought - pull the invertebrates and put them in a small tank and run your main tank with the fish in it under hyposalinity for 35 days….that might be easier to do.
I watched the video again, I’m now thinking this could be ich, but if it turns out to be velvet, hyposalinity won’t help…
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