Ich or what?

[BUXI08]

Hey!
My Display tank was running fine with only 2 fishes from a year... but from 1 week i saw heavy white spots on the Regal Blue tang.. I have cured ich a year ago through Hypo Salinity and from then it was going good.
>A week before i introduced an Bubble tip anemone in the Display tank...
>Dipped Fish net and wet hands form Quarantine tank (contains: Pakistani butterfly, common clown and a wrasse), I am decreasing the salinity of Q.t (hypo) because i founf some ich signs on Pakistani butterfly...

What Should i do now?? Should i go for hypo in Display tank also with sand and l.r for 3 months?
I am going to return BTA to my pet store..
Here is the Video of main tank.. i hope you can figure out whitish spots on blue tang...

http://youtu.be/iX5HGCJPdzA

 

[BUXI08]

Here is the video of Unidentified micro organisms on the coralline algae... what is it?

http://youtu.be/64w7PmG_o3M

 

[snorvich]

Hey!
My Display tank was running fine with only 2 fishes from a year... but from 1 week i saw heavy white spots on the Regal Blue tang..

Hepatus tangs are ich magnets

I have cured ich a year ago through Hypo Salinity and from then it was going good.
>A week before i introduced an Bubble tip anemone in the Display tank...

I suspect when introducing the BTA, you also added water from the LFS. Correct?

>Dipped Fish net and wet hands form Quarantine tank (contains: Pakistani butterfly, common clown and a wrasse), I am decreasing the salinity of Q.t (hypo) because i founf some ich signs on Pakistani butterfly...

Be sure it is ich not velvet. You must keep SG at 1.008/1.009 as measured by a calibrated refractometer for a minimum of 4 weeks followed by 4 weeks of observation However, ich is not in your display tank

What Should i do now?? Should i go for hypo in Display tank also with sand and l.r for 3 months?
I am going to return BTA to my pet store..
Here is the Video of main tank.. i hope you can figure out whitish spots on blue tang...

http://youtu.be/iX5HGCJPdzA

Butterfly fish are highly susceptible to ich and velvet and water contamination between tanks can spread either. My eyesight is not good enough to tell from video supplied what exactly you have contracted if anything. Ich is not going to be visible on coralline algae or on fish except during a small part of the life cycle. Please read the stickies in this forum for additional information

 

[MrTuskfish]

Aren't those just pods on the coraline? You can't see ich parasites, the 'white spot' is not the actual, living parasite.

 

[Tat2demon]

Thats pods and cyano, not ich and coralline.

 

[MrTuskfish]

Thats pods and cyano, not ich and coralline.

You're right. Cyno usually isn't that "rigid"; maybe just lack of flow.

 

[BUXI08]

@snorvich: Yes i also added the water with BTA of LFS. :hmm6:

and i think this is marine velvet... See in the pictures...

i have taken Blue tang out of the main tank & it is now in QT, i have given it a formalin dip... and is now going to medicate it with "Chloroquine Phosphate" or Copper... What you guys think?

 

[snorvich]

@snorvich: Yes i also added the water with BTA of LFS. :hmm6:

and i think this is marine velvet... See in the pictures...

i have taken Blue tang out of the main tank & it is now in QT, i have given it a formalin dip... and is now going to medicate it with "Chloroquine Phosphate" or Copper... What you guys think?

If it were me, and it really is velvet, I would go with copper. But remember your TANK has it and it is quite able to wipe out all fish.

 

[MrTuskfish]

I cant tell what it is. Possibly a bad case of HLLE.The new pics really make the cyno clear. Cyno is a bacteria and you need to improve water conditions, or no matter what the hippo has, you'll never get him healthy. Hippos really react to poor water; yet are remarkably durable. I've honestly never seen so much cyno in a tank. Any way you can get a good pic of the hippo? Any parasite could have come from your DT. BTW, how big is the DT? I'd return the BTA if you can; they are tough to keep , even in pristine water.