Tangs body and eye looks funny

merlberg · Jan 16, 2019

So a few days ago my powerhead stopped. Didnt have a powerhead for maybe 5 days and seems like my tank caught ich out of nowhere. Haven’t introduced any new fish in 2018 at all and i’ve had my 120 gal for over 5 yrs. anyone knows what may have happened please?

merlberg · Jan 16, 2019

Here’s a video

Crabs McJones · Jan 16, 2019

merlberg said:
So a few days ago my powerhead stopped. Didnt have a powerhead for maybe 5 days and seems like my tank caught ich out of nowhere. Haven’t introduced any new fish in 2018 at all and i’ve had my 120 gal for over 5 yrs. anyone knows what may have happened please?

Can you snap a couple pictures?

merlberg · Jan 16, 2019

I have not been on here in a while so I’m trying to figure out how to upload tht :/

merlberg · Jan 16, 2019

Crabs Mcjones said:
Can you snap a couple pictures?

Hopefully this uploads as I try it again now

Humblefish · Jan 16, 2019

Sounds like ich was latent in your aquarium, and the decreased oxygen level from not having a powerhead (gas exchange) weakened your fishes' immune systems. Making an outbreak more possible to occur.

merlberg · Jan 16, 2019

Humblefish said:
Sounds like ich was latent in your aquarium, and the decreased oxygen level from not having a powerhead (gas exchange) weakened your fishes' immune systems. Making an outbreak more possible to occur.

I was worried that’s what it was. For some reason I’m unable to upload the video and i’m on the app. I went to the website and it still said it was unable to load the video -_-
At this point all I can realistic do is ich managment and all my fish including a tomato clown who seems to have ich as well is all eating. I have a flame angel in there that is healthy and seems to not have been infected which is odd.

merlberg · Jan 16, 2019

HotRocks · Jan 16, 2019

merlberg said:

Do any of your other fish look like this?

It looks like you may be dealing with velvet.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/

Vahanyos · Jan 16, 2019

If it's just ich, and not velvet as mentioned above... a proper diet and not stressing your fish out any further may get it under control. A better pic would help...