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10/18/2010, 10:59 PM
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Help! Ich or somthing else?
I noticed that my two neon cleaner gobies had some white spots on them, but then I also noticed that one of them also had a larger brownish, tanish spot on his side. I removed both from the DT and now have them in QT. What is this? How do I treat them and what should I do to my DT to make sure this doesn't spread. I have various corals, snails, hermits, shrimp, other fish, etc. I have UV running so very suprised by this. Tank has been running since Aug. 1 and these fish have been in the tank and healthy for a month. 55g, 60lbs lr, live sand, canister filters (just cleaned a week ago), I do a weekly 10% water change. Temp. 80. Parameters tested this am:
SG: 1.023 Ph: 8.4 A: 0 Ni: 0 Na: 10 Alk: 3 meg/L Mag: 1110 Ca: 410 THanks!! |
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10/18/2010, 11:08 PM
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Your fish in the qt could be treated with hyposalinity: it probably is ich, but crosscheck with people with more experience in diseases over in the Fish Disease forum before beginning treatment.
Move ALL your fish out of the DT and into the qt: treat everybody, and leave it that way for 8 weeks (during which time your jailbirds in the qt will have time to have their treatment, and live happily there for weeks and weeks...) and the ich parasite will have starved out of your main tank---ich doesn't attack inverts. After that, you should be safe as long as all fish spend 4 weeks in qt before going into the tank.
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Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%. |
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10/18/2010, 11:09 PM
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would need pics to id properly but sounds like ich and or fungus but also could be marks from stings,,,need to see it
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10/18/2010, 11:40 PM
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How do you post photos?
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10/18/2010, 11:42 PM
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Ug--my QT is only 10G. Looks like I'm making a trip to PetCo for a 1$ a gallon sale. I have 3 chromis, 2 kauldren's cardinals, 1 mystery wrasse, 2 ocellaris clowns and the 2 gobies. What is the smallest tank I could get where they would be ok for 8 weeks?
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10/18/2010, 11:51 PM
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photo of fish
Here's a photo that shows the brown spot. I have aptasia (only one or two very small ones that the berghia nudis in my tank are getting rid of), but no other anemones. Corals are mushrooms, acans, Kenya Tree, Dendrophyllia, Chili Coral.
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10/19/2010, 08:29 AM
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Have posted in fish disease forum now
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