Disaster, advice please!!!

[jmaschh]

I recently treated my tank with flatworm exit and now I've got problems. I have lost three fish and my large red monti looks like it may be beginning to bleach. I ran two bags of carbon after dosing and siphoned out quite a few of the flatworms after they died. Then I did about a 20% water change a few hours later and another 20% water change a day later.

Soon after I noticed that my blue tang had whit spots on him along with my yellow tang. It looked like ich (not sure on spelling) to me. My blue tang was dead the next morning. Then out of nowhere my two clowns died the next day and not my yellow tang has died as well. All I have left is my coral beauty and as of now I think he looks like he might survive. I checked all of my levels and they seem to be fine.

Anyways, I'm trying to stabalize the tank now and make sure the coral beauty survives. Any suggestions?

Also I would like to repopulate my tank once I get this problem fixed. Will ich always be a problem for me since it is always going to be in the tank?

Thanks for the info in advance.

 

[capncapo]

Ich will be present in the tank unless you let it go without fish for quite a while. I believe the current thinking is 90 days or so.

 

[jmaschh]

So am I probably going to have issues if I introduce any new fish to the tank?

I believe the ich was introduced to the tank about a year ago when I added the blue tang to the tank. He recovered from a mild case of ich and was perfectly healthy, but it must have been in the tank ever since waiting to strike again.

 

[scbadiver]

Ich is usually the result of stress. When the fish are healthy and happy they can fight it but when stressed ie; Flatworm Exit, they may sucumb to it. Just keep up what your doing. I may be wrong, and probably I am, but I think ich is always there it just usually doesn't rear it's ugly head. I hope it all turns around for better soon for you though. Good luck.

 

[Nanook]

IMO, remove the stressors that killed most of your fish and the ICH will become a non-issue. Most healthy fish can suppress ICH as long as something doesn't take them over the edge like your nuclear wipe-out did

ICH will hang around for about 3 months like Capo said without fish, then it's gone unless reintroduced. Bottom line is that ICH is usually present and keeping fish healthy is the best prevention.

I have never been a big fan of nuking a tank with FWE or other types of medications because we just don't know for sure what all of the sequelae can be to bacteria and other lifeforms that are beneficial to the reeftank.

 

[capncapo]

There is no guarantee that you will have issues with ich.....just that ich will be present in your tank.

Many fish can handle ich with no problems as long as they are healthy.

 

[scbadiver]

Gee, great minds DO think alike! :lol:

 

[jmaschh]

What kind of fish would help to control my flatworm population? I still notice some flatworms in the tank, but I'm afraid to treat the tank again after what already happened.

Hopefully once I get things back to normal I'll be able to add fish to the tank again without issue.

 

[scbadiver]

Hi Greg.

See you guys, sometimes the old man does have his lucid moments!

 

[scbadiver]

What type flatworms do you have? What color? how many lobes?

 

[jmaschh]

They are basically and oval shape with a reddish brown color

 

[scbadiver]

I fyou look closely at them, can you see two or three little bumps on the head? If only two, Capo says don't worry about them. I think he is right too. Mine have really dwindled to almost none.

 

[jmaschh]

They are mainly on the soft corals in my tank. I haven't seen any on my montis and I've only seen very few on the rock, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

 

[logiktest]

If you can, you may want to move the fish to a QT tank for a few months.

My first guess is that your coral may be bleaching due to the heavy use of carbon and the water changes all at once. Your water's clarity may have improved drastically, resulting in too much light.

 

[capncapo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11798741#post11798741 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by scbadiver
Hi Greg.

See you guys, sometimes the old man does have his lucid moments!

Me too Robbie!

 

[jmaschh]

I don't see any bumps on them.

They seem to be harming the corals though, because they are grouping up on them and the corals seem much happier now that most of them are dead.

 

[capncapo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11798781#post11798781 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by scbadiver
I fyou look closely at them, can you see two or three little bumps on the head? If only two, Capo says don't worry about them. I think he is right too. Mine have really dwindled to almost none.

What a rookie!

It's not the head....it's the "nether region"...i.e. the back end.

 

[scbadiver]

Darn it, I hate to be wrong! ok, how many bumps on the tail!?

(it's not like you can see thier eyes though)

 

[capncapo]

It's not "bumps on the tail" ...it's the shape of the tail.

Take a good look at yours Rob. Their tail is somewhat in the shape of a "V". Two lobes.

Convolutriloba has a tail that has 3 "points"...like a "W". They may not be perfect points but if you look hard enough, you'll see 3 of them.

That'll be $50.00 please. I have to fund my teaching somehow.

 

[zt444a]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11798909#post11798909 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capncapo
It's not "bumps on the tail" ...it's the shape of the tail.

Take a good look at yours Rob. Their tail is somewhat in the shape of a "V". Two lobes.

Convolutriloba has a tail that has 3 "points"...like a "W". They may not be perfect points but if you look hard enough, you'll see 3 of them.

That'll be $50.00 please. I have to fund my teaching somehow.

I hate to say this Jack, but that Greg can be one smart dude sometimes..... Knowledge is amazing