Royal Gramma not eating, Ich?

[FL_Reef]

Hello,
First of all I'd like to say thank you to all the members of this site. It has been of great help over the last year. I have just lurked for the last year but now I'd like to see if I could get some help.

I have a royal gramma that hasn't eaten for 3 days now. I was wondering if this is ich. I have attached a video. I have had the fish since last December with no issues until now. I haven't added anything in probably a month or more. No new fish for 6 months.

Everything was going great for the first 10 months and then about a month ago I got dinos (Large cell amphidinium). I have been dosing microbacter7 and microbacter clean daily along with SpongExcel. My phosphates and nitrates were always unregistered on the salifert test kit but now I have phosphate around 1 I think and Nitrate around 5-10. It's hard to tell exactly, the colors are close.

 

[FL_Reef]

Adding more info that might be helpful. Nothing else is affected except I lost a large birdsnest colony and a Space invader chalice. The tank is very peaceful so no worries of bullying.

75 gallon tank with a 20 gallon sump
Alkalinity 8.0
Calcium 400
Mag 1350
Salinity 1.024
Phosphate 1?
Nitrate 5-10?
Temperature 78
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0

Tank inhabitants

2 clowns
1 firefish
1 azure damsel
1 yellow watchman
1 hawkfish
1 royal gramma
1 mandarin
1 fire shrimp
5 nassarius snails
6 hermit crabs
1 trochus snail i think
SPS LPS and soft coral

 

[FL_Reef]

Well I just came across something I didn't consider. I have been vacuuming the sand every other day to help rid the dinos and apparently that stirs up ammonia. I just tested and it shows .50 I'm going to do a water change now. Still would like to know if that looks like ich.

 

[Uncle99]

I can’t see the fish.
Is he scratching, rubbing, breathing heavy or acting lethargic or glassy eyes, oval or whitish/grayish spots?

Anything like that?

 

[FL_Reef]

I guess you can’t add videos? The video is better. It looks like he has spots. It looks like he is breathing a little heavy. Definitely not acting normal. He usually isn’t out too much. Now he was just hanging out near the sand in front of the rocks not doing much.

 

[Uncle99]

That looks like ick.

All fish must go to QT and be treated with either Hypo, TTM, or copper based methods....see stickies for details and pick what makes sense to you.

The mandarin presents a bit of an issue. I might just live him in the DT and see if he gets infected. If he does, then maybe TTM, hard to keep these guys fed in QT if they are exclusive pod eaters.

The DT must continue to run as normal, without fish, for 70 ish days to rid the DT of this parasite.

 

[FL_Reef]

That looks like ick.

All fish must go to QT and be treated with either Hypo, TTM, or copper based methods....see stickies for details and pick what makes sense to you.

The mandarin presents a bit of an issue. I might just live him in the DT and see if he gets infected. If he does, then maybe TTM, hard to keep these guys fed in QT if they are exclusive pod eaters.

The DT must continue to run as normal, without fish, for 70 ish days to rid the DT of this parasite.

Ok that’s what I was afraid of. Will do some research and see what is the best method for my tank. Thank you for your input.
If anyone else has anything to add on what method they would use please feel free to post. I’m new to all of this and it seems a bit overwhelming with the dinos and now this