ID this disease / parasite???

[wakerider017]

Stupid move and dumped some fish in sans QT.

Purple tang (new fish) showed signs of ich. Treated/medicated with metro/selcon to try and improve immune sys. Ich or w/e the disease was appeared to recede.

1 week later it appears it is coming back. Can be seen on all five of my tangs now. Hippo has it worst.

It appears to be a bump on the skin, almost like a small pimple. Also see small white spots that look like ich, and also much larger white spots are appearing.

I'll try and take more pics later.

 

[wakerider017]

Having a hard time taking a good picture with the constant motion and LEDs..

The large white spots almost appear to be fuzzy.. While there are the typical small ich-like white spots mixed in..

 

[HumbleFish]

The small white spots appear to be Ich; the larger ones are probably a (secondary) bacterial infection. If all 5 tangs have it then this is really bad news. You need to setup a QT and treat ASAP.

 

[wakerider017]

Yup, going to try and tear down the tank tmrw so I can catch them all and stick everybody in a 100G rubbermaid QT. What a pain!

I'm guessing the ich buried under the skin and rising to the surface caused a wound which became infected?

Should I be treating an antibiotic like Maracyn Two? Before or after Cupramine?

 

[HumbleFish]

Yup, going to try and tear down the tank tmrw so I can catch them all and stick everybody in a 100G rubbermaid QT. What a pain!

I'm guessing the ich buried under the skin and rising to the surface caused a wound which became infected?

Should I be treating an antibiotic like Maracyn Two? Before or after Cupramine?

You can use antibiotics with copper. Saltwater Maracyn 1 & 2 are good, but also hard to find. So something like Furan-2 would be a suitable alternative.

 

[NarakuAulonocar]

I've dealt with something that looks exactlt like this.

Nothing worked.
Prazi, copper, malachite, antibiotics, quinine and hypo didn't work.

One thing I noticed is that the spots stay on longer than the normal ich which is probably why the meds didn't work.

I also noticed that the spots tend to fall off faster in darkness.

I would move them to a quarantine and cover up the tank with a blanket and do tank transfer. If you decide to return them to the main tank, they might get reinfected as no one is sure how long the fallow period is.

 

[DrPat]

what temperature do you maintain the qt tank at what temp is the DT .I have had that same infection appear on a female tomato clown that every time she started to fan up the sand prior to spawning , mean while the 4 tangs never showed signs. I considered it ick . Everyone had survived a ick attack the year prior which i greatfully treated AND SUBSIDED the ick with ploy labs aquamedic

 

[josegs3]

i've dealt with something that looks exactlt like this.

Nothing worked.
Prazi, copper, malachite, antibiotics, quinine and hypo didn't work.

One thing i noticed is that the spots stay on longer than the normal ich which is probably why the meds didn't work.

I also noticed that the spots tend to fall off faster in darkness.

I would move them to a quarantine and cover up the tank with a blanket and do tank transfer. If you decide to return them to the main tank, they might get reinfected as no one is sure how long the fallow period is.

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