Well I had my first run in with a marine parasite and lost. I believe it was Marine Ich but I'm not 100% sure. I check my fish every day in the QT as I have never seen and SW issues (I'm new to this). Sunday I feed the fish and all seemed normal, active and eating. Last night after I got home from work I went up to feed the fish and my McCockers is COVERED in white specs/patches of white specs. The royal gramma has a few I would say if the Wrasse had 100 or more, the gramma had about 50. The neon goby is missing ATM. I'm hoping he was just sleeping and comes out today when the lights are on. I treated the tank with cupramine exactly per the bottles directions. I also put in an airstone to help with oxygen exchange. I woke up this morning and so far I can 100% say the Wrasse is dead and not just playing dead or sleeping. The Gramma is still hanging in there and the goby is still missing (though I turned on the lights and didn't really give him enough time to come out (he likes to sleep in the inside of my powerhead that was shut off when he was put in the tank and now can't be turned on bc it's his place of residence). Can someone help me and describe if Ich would be this severe overnight? I have researched a lot and I guess I'm stumped to whether it was Ich or velvet. There was enough to almost cover its' entire body but I could still see come individual spots. Also the fact that I have seen a couple people claim that Wrasses don't do well with copper treatment. I'm not sure why this would be the case as all fish have the same basic systems.
First battle and lost
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Newsmyrna80
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^Agree. Ich doesn't kill that quickly.
Newsmyrna80
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Sorry for the loss. Sounds like velvet. Did you add anything recently without quarantining? You will need to leave the tank fallow for 8 weeks I believe. When I dealt with velvet 8 weeks was fine. You may want to read the stickies at the top of the forum.
Steve instead of waiting 8 weeks on the QT purge can I nuke everything with bleach and start over? It seem like that would be "faster" and less of a pain. I know you can't do things fast but my parents want the QT down ASAP as the deal was if the 90 went up that one would come down. If I wait 8 weeks and then 4-6 more with new fish we are talking not taking it down until end of March and I know the parents aren't going to be happy.
Newsmyrna80
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If there is nothing in the QT then absolutely...take it down. Be sure to sterilze and let it dry for at least a week. I'd wait a while on adding anything to the main until you find out what happens with the goby.
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