So I am losing fish like crazy. I originally put all my fish in my new tank after about 3 weeks of copper. Yet after about 2 months, I had ich. I think it might have been from the live rock. I therefore got lazy with my quarantining since I thought that ich was the only thing I had to worry about so I basically just dropped fish in when I got them.
I had two blue spot jawfish that were constantly attacking each other, so I added 4 more hoping to pair them off. The aggression stopped but three of them never ate. A few days later my tangs were close to dying from ich, so I tore down the tank and put everyone in 3 hospital tanks.
When I pulled out the blue spots, I noticed 3 of them had what looked like cuts to me, that were silvery/white on their sides. I put them in the hospital tank and they died within 2 days. About the time they died, two more of my blue spots had this white stuff on them and it grew rapidly and killed them within a day. A day later I lost my last blue spot. They died in reverse order of acquisition, so my oldest two died after the new 4.
For several days, all was well. I started the copper treatment on the tang hospital tank. The hippo then started showing signs of what I would call holes, in addition to ich. I added furan 2 to the tang tank.
The powder blue has no apparent ich, but now has holes in it with white stuff on them. The holes appear to be growing. The hippo died last night.
In the 2nd pic you can also see some black spots on the white chin that aren't on the other side. The white stuff looks fuzzy.
In the other tank, (the one that had the blue spots that died)there had been no deaths for a week or so, but one clown wasn't eating and hanging out at the bottom. I added metro and that seemed to make him better for the duration of the treatment. I then repeated the metro and started (1/2 dose) of coppersafe. Next day, I had a dead mandarin, helfrichi, and bicolor. The foxface now has some of these holes appearing.
So in summary, I have a disease that is killing fish very quickly from onset, a few days. It does not appear to be affected by copper, nor furan 2, nor metronidazole. I believe the ich is 2ndary and just there for annoyance at this point.
What do I have??? It waits about a week and then shows signs in a fish, then kills them in 2-3 days!!
I had two blue spot jawfish that were constantly attacking each other, so I added 4 more hoping to pair them off. The aggression stopped but three of them never ate. A few days later my tangs were close to dying from ich, so I tore down the tank and put everyone in 3 hospital tanks.
When I pulled out the blue spots, I noticed 3 of them had what looked like cuts to me, that were silvery/white on their sides. I put them in the hospital tank and they died within 2 days. About the time they died, two more of my blue spots had this white stuff on them and it grew rapidly and killed them within a day. A day later I lost my last blue spot. They died in reverse order of acquisition, so my oldest two died after the new 4.
For several days, all was well. I started the copper treatment on the tang hospital tank. The hippo then started showing signs of what I would call holes, in addition to ich. I added furan 2 to the tang tank.
The powder blue has no apparent ich, but now has holes in it with white stuff on them. The holes appear to be growing. The hippo died last night.
In the 2nd pic you can also see some black spots on the white chin that aren't on the other side. The white stuff looks fuzzy.
In the other tank, (the one that had the blue spots that died)there had been no deaths for a week or so, but one clown wasn't eating and hanging out at the bottom. I added metro and that seemed to make him better for the duration of the treatment. I then repeated the metro and started (1/2 dose) of coppersafe. Next day, I had a dead mandarin, helfrichi, and bicolor. The foxface now has some of these holes appearing.
So in summary, I have a disease that is killing fish very quickly from onset, a few days. It does not appear to be affected by copper, nor furan 2, nor metronidazole. I believe the ich is 2ndary and just there for annoyance at this point.
What do I have??? It waits about a week and then shows signs in a fish, then kills them in 2-3 days!!
