please help my clowns have ich

[40g Nano]

Today I noticed many white spots all over my clown's body. I am new to the hobby and don't want to use copper.

 

[Dbichler]

Then your options are as follows
Hyposalinity
Tank transfer
Ich management
If it’s brook or velvet you don’t have much time

 

[pecan2phat]

If you have access to chloroquine phosphate, that will also work but all these methods needs to be in a separate QT/treatment tank and not the display tank.

 

[Big G]

Today I noticed many white spots all over my clown's body. I am new to the hobby and don't want to use copper.

Can you post a picture? The spots can be a few different parasites. Early stage Brook can present like ich/velvet.

 

[Big G]

I am new to the hobby and don't want to use copper.

This method uses the least chemicals but does require lots of water changes and 2 tanks/containers:

Hybrid TTM to treat all parasites!

10/9/2022: Jay Hemdal and the current Fish Medic staff are suggesting that people find other treatments rather than TTM. It has some substantial drawbacks: “Tank chasing” method (Tank Transfer Method - TTM) A mostly theoretical method for treating Cryptocaryon infections takes advantage of...

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[40g Nano]

I got a new clownfish a few days ago to pair with the one I had. I didn't see anything wrong with it. Today I noticed that the old clown had white dots all over it. Earlier today it looked like all of the dots released and the clown had scars.

 

[40g Nano]

It looks like velvet or ich

 

[Big G]

The "dots" were the mucous spots from the fish's immune system responding to the parasite's attachment. The mucous spots will slough off and sometimes you can see the wound, kinda like a small scar" where the parasite's attached. If you can count the spots it was probably ich; if there were too many to count it was probably velvet. But in both cases, the cycle is getting ready to repeat again. Need to treat the fish and fallow the tank to starve out the parasites.

 

[40g Nano]

What do you recommend for treating

 

[Big G]

You mentioned you did not want to use copper. So the following are open to your use and would cover the big four parasites:

CP chloroquine phosphate: treats Ich, velvet, Brook, uronema

Chloroquine phosphate

Chloroquine Phosphate *** The information contained here is subject to changes as I experiment and learn more about Chloroquine Phosphate *** What It Treats – Marine Ich (Cryptocaryon irritans), Marine Velvet Disease (Amyloodinium ocellatum), Brooklynella hostilis and Uronema marinum. How To...

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Hybrid TTM: treats ich, velvet, Brook, uronema

Hybrid TTM to treat all parasites!

10/9/2022: Jay Hemdal and the current Fish Medic staff are suggesting that people find other treatments rather than TTM. It has some substantial drawbacks: “Tank chasing” method (Tank Transfer Method - TTM) A mostly theoretical method for treating Cryptocaryon infections takes advantage of...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Zionas]

Don’t mean to hijack, but would SeaChem Cupramine work for these 4 diseases?

 

[40g Nano]

I’ll be getting a qt today and I could use cupramine but any suggestions on getting rid of the copper later

 

[40g Nano]

Here is a pic but right now they went away

 

[Qasimja]

can you post a picture under whiter lighting

 

[40g Nano]

It isn’t there right now

 

[40g Nano]

I put the clowns in a qt with some seacham cuprimine and they are doing good