HELP! Fish are scraping

[Steelerfan101]

My clown and royal gramma today just started scraping against sand, rock, and corners of overflow. They go next to it and very fastly scrape the surface. THey bend and go fast. Is this for fun or do they have an illnes?

 

[MellowReefer]

That's most likely marine ich. When my fish had that I spent literally hours and hours reading about it. If you want to rid your fish of it you will have to set up a separate tank to treat them. If you don't want to do that you can feed them well, and giving them food soaked in garlic or Selcon will help somewhat and they might pull through it. It might keep coming back, and you may lose one or more of your fish. Read up on it. Just don't trust everything you hear, because there are a lot of rumors out there. A true cure takes weeks and you must treat in a separate tank. That's why many people just let their fish live with it (if it doesn't kill them). Good luck.

 

[Tickle]

My clowns have been doing this for the past 8 months with no signs of ich. Id keep a close eye on em though there are other tell tale signs of ich.

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[kevin32]

I failed to keep royal gramma three times!! They scrape themselve on the rock and die a week later.

My other fishes such as clown, flame hawkfish, scooter blenny are doing fine. I love royal gramma but can't keep them to save my life....sigh

 

[MellowReefer]

When my tank got ich my royal gramma got it the worst but didn't die. My starry blenny died though. I never saw spots on my clowns and not as much "flashing" (that's what they call scraping on rocks when they have ich). Clowns are so hardy. Some fish don't get noticable spots but if they are flashing then they do have ich.

 

[Spyderturbo007]

I've read that flukes can cause fish to do that. You might want to post this in the Disease forum to get a better response.

 

[Steelerfan101]

thank you!

 

[Dsotto]

You probably have already thought about this but fish also do that when water quality is poor. Ammonia, nitrites, nitrates? My fish did that when the nitrates got around 15-20ppm.

 

[Steelerfan101]

ok that may be it. the nitrates are around 30

 

[GPB]

I have a clown in my tank that I've had for six years. He is fat and happy, and will occasionally scrape on rocks or in the sand. I hop I don't jinx him by posting. At least he appears fat and happy.

 

[Bruno3047]

You need to dose your tank with Prazi-Po ASAP. Wait 5 days, then do a second dose. After another 10 days, do a 25% water change. If it's not Ich, the Prazi-Pro will kill whatever is bothering your fish almost instantly. It's reef-safe. Some LPS may show slightly decreased polyp extension for a few days.