Marshall
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I've done my research and I think my fish have flukes with a secondary bacterial (or possibly fluke) infection in their eyes.
SYMPTOMS: My regal angel did not come out for food today, unusual. He has increased gill movement (~100 bpm) and is hanging out in one spot, he is eating if the food comes right near him. His tail fin is a little tattered which I have never noticed before, his eyes do not look cloudy but they appear to have a little bit of a hazy white dot on them. I see this dot on my two maroon clownfishes as well. My foxface has always had a varying level of hazy/cloudy eye (no popeye) and I researched this at the time and was told it was normal. I have a goby that is totally unaffected by anything.
OF NOTE: I got a powder blue tang a month ago, it was in the pet store's tank with copper for 2 weeks, ate like a champ, beautiful. Chose not to QT b/c read that stuff still survives QT with this ich magnet. Went in, got ich in a couple days, fed well w/ garlic, went away for a week, came back badly, hoped it would go away again. Stopped eating for two days, easily netted, did a fresh water dip for 15 minutes, dead that night (will NEVER get another PBT unless it is from a hobbyist).
I love my regal angel more than any fish I have ever owned. I will do anything for him, including tearing apart the entire reef to catch him and treat him.
IF these are flukes then it appears there are some treatments I could do in QT, or I can grind up a tablet of medicine and feed with food, or I can do a FWD. But it appears I would need to do this to all of the fish which could be hard but I will do it if I have to. There are no SPS/invert safe whole-tank treatments that I found except perhaps grinding up meds in the food. Is that correct?
Lastly I should mention that I have fish in the garage in the sump (same water) that are showing no signs of anything. Down there is a six line wrasse, a french angel, a mandarin dragonet, a blue damsel and possibly a goby or two. Of the fish I've seen (4 so far) none of them have any visual problems or behavioural abnormalities.
Thanks for everyone's help. I will try to get some pictures but the damn fish won't stand still (unless it's too late :sad2:
NUMBERS: 1.025 sg, 8.0-8.2 pH, Ca 420, Mg 1320, temp 76-78, nitrate 25, phosphate 0-0.03 (merck kit), alk (dealing with a swing peaked at 15 now down around 11). Have not tested nitrite or ammonia but none of my corals are too ticked. The only other significant change that has happened concomitantly is that I started running more ozone and I am not running the effluent water over carbon but I do run carbon very near the exit in a reactor. I also run Phosban.
SYMPTOMS: My regal angel did not come out for food today, unusual. He has increased gill movement (~100 bpm) and is hanging out in one spot, he is eating if the food comes right near him. His tail fin is a little tattered which I have never noticed before, his eyes do not look cloudy but they appear to have a little bit of a hazy white dot on them. I see this dot on my two maroon clownfishes as well. My foxface has always had a varying level of hazy/cloudy eye (no popeye) and I researched this at the time and was told it was normal. I have a goby that is totally unaffected by anything.
OF NOTE: I got a powder blue tang a month ago, it was in the pet store's tank with copper for 2 weeks, ate like a champ, beautiful. Chose not to QT b/c read that stuff still survives QT with this ich magnet. Went in, got ich in a couple days, fed well w/ garlic, went away for a week, came back badly, hoped it would go away again. Stopped eating for two days, easily netted, did a fresh water dip for 15 minutes, dead that night (will NEVER get another PBT unless it is from a hobbyist).
I love my regal angel more than any fish I have ever owned. I will do anything for him, including tearing apart the entire reef to catch him and treat him.
IF these are flukes then it appears there are some treatments I could do in QT, or I can grind up a tablet of medicine and feed with food, or I can do a FWD. But it appears I would need to do this to all of the fish which could be hard but I will do it if I have to. There are no SPS/invert safe whole-tank treatments that I found except perhaps grinding up meds in the food. Is that correct?
Lastly I should mention that I have fish in the garage in the sump (same water) that are showing no signs of anything. Down there is a six line wrasse, a french angel, a mandarin dragonet, a blue damsel and possibly a goby or two. Of the fish I've seen (4 so far) none of them have any visual problems or behavioural abnormalities.
Thanks for everyone's help. I will try to get some pictures but the damn fish won't stand still (unless it's too late :sad2:
NUMBERS: 1.025 sg, 8.0-8.2 pH, Ca 420, Mg 1320, temp 76-78, nitrate 25, phosphate 0-0.03 (merck kit), alk (dealing with a swing peaked at 15 now down around 11). Have not tested nitrite or ammonia but none of my corals are too ticked. The only other significant change that has happened concomitantly is that I started running more ozone and I am not running the effluent water over carbon but I do run carbon very near the exit in a reactor. I also run Phosban.
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