Help Me with some sick fish

[fishfreak2009]

Please help me figure out what is wrong with my fish. I bought a koran angelfish and a supermale cirrhilabrus lyukyuensis 2 days after Christmas and unfortunately decided that since they were so large, I decided not to quarantine them. Big mistake. Within 2 days, the koran came down with velvet, along with the flame angel already established in my system. I moved everything to the quarantine and treated everything with Cupramine. There has been no sign of velvet for two weeks now. However, now a new problem has emerged. The koran angelfish seems to be coated in what look like little white spikes all over its body. They don't look like ich or velvet, but come smoothly out of the skin and look like tiny spikes are starting to grow all over its body and out of its fins. It has had this for about 4 days now. Today I came downstairs and noticed that my smaller Ocellaris clownfish that was also moved to the quarantine seems to have these same spikes starting now, and its eyes seem to have tripled in size. What should I do?

 

[fishfreak2009]

The spikes apparently didn't show up in the pictures very well, but in the second picture you can kind of see where the pectoral fin has whitish blotches towards the exterior, and those in person are the little spikes that are all over the body.

 

[fishfreak2009]

Just noticed in the third pic that you can kinda see the spikes on the side of the koran (especially toward the back of the fish on the left side of the picture).

I would really appreciate some help curing this, or even if anyone knows what it even is.

 

[b0bab0ey]

Honestly, I can't tell anything from the pics. If you've got all your fish in QT at 0.5 Cupramine then Ich/Velvet is covered. And what you're describing doesn't sound like Brook or Flukes or any other common disease. So my next move would be to treat with antibiotics, as that clown's popeye is probably due to a secondary bacterial infection anyway. Maracyn 1 & 2 is what I use and it even covers Fungus. Furan-2 is another good antibiotic but I've never used it before w/Cupramine so I can't say with 100% certainty that it would be safe. Maracyn 1 & 2 I have used concurrently with both Cupramine and Coppersafe.

 

[fishfreak2009]

well, I contacted Bob Fenner at www.wetwebmedia.com, and sent him the pics. He believes that it is just environmental from all the fish being in a smaller tank, and that the spikes were just part of the slime coat. He suggested moving the fish to a larger tank, so following his advice I moved some freshwater fish around, freed up my 75 gallon, and filled the 75 with pre-mixed saltwater, as well as adding some bacteria in a bottle. The fish seem to be doing much better in the larger tank at least in the half hour they have been in there. The swelling in the clownfish's eyes has completely disappeared, and the small spikes seem to be beginning to go away on both the koran angel and the clownfish.