Coral Beauty looking poorly

DarkHippo

New Member
Hi all. We lost a royal gamma a couple of months ago due to what we suspected initially to be ich. We got him out of the DT and started hypo salinity in a borrowed tank on the kitchen table but he died on the second day of treatment. Any ways, we suspected that our problem may not have been ich as our two clowns (the only fish left in the tank) were fine. No white spots, eating fine, no breathing issues and laying eggs every other week. We left it eight weeks before reasoning it probably wasn't ich, and bought a coral beauty this weekend. Now on his third day, he's not eating and he has a few white dots around his face. I know I don't have a QT, I just don't have room. But whatever it is, it doesn't affect clowns...?

Any suggestion welcome, I'll see if I can get a photo tomorrow.

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DaveK

Well-Known Member
Most likely you have ich, Just because the clowns don't show any symptoms does not mean they didn't carry the disease.

Here are the major threads on the disease -
http://reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?threads/fish-with-white-spots-that-went-away.57175/
http://reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?threads/marine-ich-myths-and-facts.23132/
http://reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?threads/copper-treatment-use-problems.23130/
http://reefsanctuary.com/forum/index.php?threads/a-hyposalinity-treatment-process.23131/

To sum this up -
You must treat all fish in the system
You must treat in a quarantine tank
Copper or hyposalinity are the only treatments that work reliably
Treatment should be for 8 weeks, 10 or 12 is better
 
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