Somethings going on here

[BradyO]

I woke up this morning to find my damsel dead and everyone else acting very weird. The spots on my clown look a lot worse. Anyone know what this might be?

 

[JasonK84]

Black ich!!

 

[Bransreeftv]

Black ich for sure!!

 

[JasonK84]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-disease-index-pictorial-guide.285708/

Your picture is even better than the example in this thread on the yellow tang.

 

[BradyO]

Thanks y’all! Any tips on curing?

 

[JasonK84]

I woke up this morning to find my damsel dead and everyone else acting very weird. The spots on my clown look a lot worse. Anyone know what this might be?

Do you have a way to QT all of your fish and treat with Prazi? If not it is somewhat reef safe just going to kill most of your tube worms and bristleworms.

 

[JasonK84]

Thanks y’all! Any tips on curing?

Treatments are listed in the thread I posted. Treat the same as flukes. Praziquantel, formalin, and freshwater dip. I'd definitely do the fresh water dip right away to provide some immediate relief then go with Prazi in a QT set up if possible.

 

[BradyO]

Do you have a way to QT all of your fish and treat with Prazi? If not it is somewhat reef safe just going to kill most of your tube worms and bristleworms.

I don’t have a QT tank.

 

[JasonK84]

Anything can be a QT tank. A 5 gallon bucket, a sterilite container. If you have a HOB filter and a heater then QT is possible. Put some pvc fittings for the fish to hide in and use some media from your main filter to run in the QT HOB filter.

You can dose Prazi in the DT but could cause problems with some inverts. Mainly worms.

is it just the clownfish in the tank now or are there others?

 

[BradyO]

Anything can be a QT tank. A 5 gallon bucket, a sterilite container. If you have a HOB filter and a heater then QT is possible. Put some pvc fittings for the fish to hide in and use some media from your main filter to run in the QT HOB filter.

You can dose Prazi in the DT but could cause problems with some inverts. Mainly worms.

is it just the clownfish in the tank now or are there others?

There’s a clown and diamond goby.

 

[cracker]

interest ing pic ! I'd never seen "black ich" before . So the treatment isn't the same as white ich so the 2 are not the same . I thought the black & white were different forms of ich . Treatment would be the same .
They should have used a different unrelated name.

 

[Big G]

Did/do the other fish also have these black marks on their body's? The hammer coral behind the fish could certainly be stinging the fish and causing hypermelanization.

 

[dwest]

Did/do the other fish also have these black marks on their body's? The hammer coral behind the fish could certainly be stinging the fish and causing hypermelanization.

I think Big G may be correct. Plus any black ick I’ve ever seen was smaller. No disease expert here...
@HotRocks

 

[BradyO]

My damsel was dead this morning and the diamond goby and clownfish are acting very weird. I’ve noticed a couple of my hammer corals have been closed up the past day or two though.

 

[4FordFamily]

Those are awfully large for black ich spots, could be a sting and resulting hypermelanizafion. It COULD be a component of your issue but based on the other deaths I am guessing there is more at play.

Any of the fish hiding from light? Swimming in to powerheads? Have spots? “Dustings”? Flashing? Scratching? Losing appetite? Losing color? Breathing heavily?

 

[BradyO]

Those are awfully large for black ich spots, could be a sting and resulting hypermelanizafion. It COULD be a component of your issue but based on the other deaths I am guessing there is more at play.

Any of the fish hiding from light? Swimming in to powerheads? Have spots? “Dustings”? Flashing? Scratching? Losing appetite? Losing color? Breathing heavily?

Yes the clown hides most of the day and the diamond goby seems lethargic and lazy. Neither one is eating.

 

[4FordFamily]

Yes the clown hides most of the day and the diamond goby seems lethargic and lazy. Neither one is eating.

Those symptoms could be bacterial infections (often internal) or velvet hiding amongst the gills, or an issue in the water. Standalone it’s difficult to say.

If I were going to throw the book at it it would be copper power and spectrogram (or kanaplex + furan 2). Copper power for 14 days and the other meds for 14 days and then a transfer to a completely sterile quarantine that shared nothing with the original. If this cannot be achieved, 30 days in copper, 14 in antibiotics.

 

[BradyO]

Those symptoms could be bacterial infections (often internal) or velvet hiding amongst the gills, or an issue in the water. Standalone it’s difficult to say.

If I were going to throw the book at it it would be copper power and spectrogram (or kanaplex + furan 2). Copper power for 14 days and the other meds for 14 days and then a transfer to a completely sterile quarantine that shared nothing with the original. If this cannot be achieved, 30 days in copper, 14 in antibiotics.

Is this something I can do in my main tank? I don’t have a qt tank and am trying to avoid needing one. I did order prazipro.

 

[4FordFamily]

Is this something I can do in my main tank? I don’t have a qt tank and am trying to avoid needing one. I did order prazipro.

No, you’ll need to commit to treating them in a QT or lose your fish, most likely.