hi guys last week my porcupine who had been alone in a tank for 8 months got ich from possible contact via net or hands, from my quarantine tank, which contained a regal tang. rather than stress my puffer out by moving him from display i decided to treat in display tank with hyposalinity and decided that id move all qurantine fish into the display now as i planned to home them there anyway, and treat as a whole. i lowered salt to 1.008 and have been testing levels everyday since been about a week now and slowly but surely the puffer has lost ich spots however during the hypo treatment one fish the fish i suspect had the ich that i contaminated my tank with, started showing symptoms of ich i.e white spots and scratching rocks and stringy poop.
i thought this was wierd as hypo had been going for a day or two and then he got ill, so i left i and thought i'll keep and eye however the spots turned to lumps which now have remained lumpy however he has cobweb like fluff trailing from his body.
i have a few pics of the regal tang my raccoon butterfly who today has what appears to be damaged or missing scales creating yellow circular patterns on his body see pics.
Porc a week ago with severe ICH:
Porc now:
Raccoon butterfly now:
What my blue regal looked like 2-3 days ago:
My Blue regal tang now:
What is happening to the regal and the Raccoon is this brookylenna?
The two other fish in the tank are the porcupine puffer and a yellow tang the tang showed signs of ich like scratching againsts rocks and fins with spots but however seems okay now, the porc just stays in his cave 100% of the time now and stopped coming out to eat last night, the other 3 still eat however the regal is hiding alot too so can be hard to feed they are all hiding acting completly out of character and slow paced and lethargic except the yellow tang.
The hypo has stopped the ich spreading but what should i do about it if its Brook or anything else? how do i eliminate it from the tank.
i thought this was wierd as hypo had been going for a day or two and then he got ill, so i left i and thought i'll keep and eye however the spots turned to lumps which now have remained lumpy however he has cobweb like fluff trailing from his body.
i have a few pics of the regal tang my raccoon butterfly who today has what appears to be damaged or missing scales creating yellow circular patterns on his body see pics.
Porc a week ago with severe ICH:
Porc now:
Raccoon butterfly now:
What my blue regal looked like 2-3 days ago:
My Blue regal tang now:
What is happening to the regal and the Raccoon is this brookylenna?
The two other fish in the tank are the porcupine puffer and a yellow tang the tang showed signs of ich like scratching againsts rocks and fins with spots but however seems okay now, the porc just stays in his cave 100% of the time now and stopped coming out to eat last night, the other 3 still eat however the regal is hiding alot too so can be hard to feed they are all hiding acting completly out of character and slow paced and lethargic except the yellow tang.
The hypo has stopped the ich spreading but what should i do about it if its Brook or anything else? how do i eliminate it from the tank.
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