DerekG4
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Recently it appears 3 of my fish have ich, a small ocellaris clown, a Yellow tang and a Scopus tang. My most recent fish was the Yellow tang and the scopus, which were introduced on the same day, 2 days ago. I have never noticed it before the tangs were added.
Coincidentally one my black ocellaris clowns dissapeared randomly (He was healthy, no spots, no lethargy, ate just fine and was always with his mate) but I doubt this has to do with that.
Before I got the Scopus and the yellow tang, they didn't have a single thing, they appeared just fine. As soon as I put the yellow tang in, he started munching on every piece of hair algae he could see. As for the Scopus, he hides and explores often. (The tangs get along just fine, no signs of aggression of any sort. In fact, they sometimes swim together)
Right now the yellow tang doesn't have any spots on his body that are noticeable, he just has one big (in comparison to normal ich spots) spot on his right fin. The scopus tang has a lot of scattered spots (About a centimeter in radius per spot, but rather than the spots looking like a barely raised dot, it almost looks like it's his color), on his body, his tail, and fins, the spots on his body are more spaced out than the spots on his fins (He's the one I'm most worried about). and the clown has roughly 7 spots that I can count, one under her right eye, like 4 on her left side of her body, and 2 of them on her right side.
From what I've read, they don't have ANY of the symptoms that it says. They don't scratch themselves over the rocks, gills and mouth are moving at a normal pace, they're not lethargic, they all eat fine (The scopus grazes a lot less than the Yellow, but at least he is grazing), their fins aren't clamped (They won't stop moving them actually :lol
No cloudy eyes, nothing. As far as I found (I can't seem to find many symptoms it can have, all google seems to give me is treatments, prevention, and causes, but barely any symptom articles)
The 2 fish were quarantined for a week at the LFS with a lot of copper ich treatment, pretty much all the fish I have, minus 1 clown that I've had for almost a year in my old tank, were from her and those 3 fish are the only ones that are having it (The clown was fine until the tangs were added)
The tank is a 150 Gallon reef tank, a Wet/dry filter, a UV sterilizer ,a large protein skimmer that seems to work effectively, and LEDs. As for the stock, there's the "Infected" fish (an Ocellaris clown, Yellow, and Scopus tang), a black and white ocellaris, another normal ocellaris clown, blue tang, Carpenter flasher wrasse, yellow corris wrasse, starry blenny, blue chromis, couple blue legged hermits, sandsifting star ,a couple snails, an RBTA, and a rock anemone. Couple LPS and Softies, although I highly doubt corals have anything to do with this. The Sand on the right side of the tank is a little more than inch deep and as it goes to the left, it slopes to a 2/3 of an inch. The params are fine. Salt is 26, Nitrite, Nitrate, and Ammonia are at 0, Phosphates are at 0.2, I forgot what's the alk and cal but it should be fine seeing as all my corals are opening just fine.
I'm highly assuming the Scopus tang is to blame, as he has the most spots and none of this happened before they arrived.
I'd take a picture, but none of them would stand still long enough for my camera to focus on them. I'll take one as soon as they stand still. Just got a picture of the Scopus, just need a moment for it to be sent to my email and I'll be able to post it.
Coincidentally one my black ocellaris clowns dissapeared randomly (He was healthy, no spots, no lethargy, ate just fine and was always with his mate) but I doubt this has to do with that.
Before I got the Scopus and the yellow tang, they didn't have a single thing, they appeared just fine. As soon as I put the yellow tang in, he started munching on every piece of hair algae he could see. As for the Scopus, he hides and explores often. (The tangs get along just fine, no signs of aggression of any sort. In fact, they sometimes swim together)
Right now the yellow tang doesn't have any spots on his body that are noticeable, he just has one big (in comparison to normal ich spots) spot on his right fin. The scopus tang has a lot of scattered spots (About a centimeter in radius per spot, but rather than the spots looking like a barely raised dot, it almost looks like it's his color), on his body, his tail, and fins, the spots on his body are more spaced out than the spots on his fins (He's the one I'm most worried about). and the clown has roughly 7 spots that I can count, one under her right eye, like 4 on her left side of her body, and 2 of them on her right side.
From what I've read, they don't have ANY of the symptoms that it says. They don't scratch themselves over the rocks, gills and mouth are moving at a normal pace, they're not lethargic, they all eat fine (The scopus grazes a lot less than the Yellow, but at least he is grazing), their fins aren't clamped (They won't stop moving them actually :lol
No cloudy eyes, nothing. As far as I found (I can't seem to find many symptoms it can have, all google seems to give me is treatments, prevention, and causes, but barely any symptom articles) The 2 fish were quarantined for a week at the LFS with a lot of copper ich treatment, pretty much all the fish I have, minus 1 clown that I've had for almost a year in my old tank, were from her and those 3 fish are the only ones that are having it (The clown was fine until the tangs were added)
The tank is a 150 Gallon reef tank, a Wet/dry filter, a UV sterilizer ,a large protein skimmer that seems to work effectively, and LEDs. As for the stock, there's the "Infected" fish (an Ocellaris clown, Yellow, and Scopus tang), a black and white ocellaris, another normal ocellaris clown, blue tang, Carpenter flasher wrasse, yellow corris wrasse, starry blenny, blue chromis, couple blue legged hermits, sandsifting star ,a couple snails, an RBTA, and a rock anemone. Couple LPS and Softies, although I highly doubt corals have anything to do with this. The Sand on the right side of the tank is a little more than inch deep and as it goes to the left, it slopes to a 2/3 of an inch. The params are fine. Salt is 26, Nitrite, Nitrate, and Ammonia are at 0, Phosphates are at 0.2, I forgot what's the alk and cal but it should be fine seeing as all my corals are opening just fine.
I'm highly assuming the Scopus tang is to blame, as he has the most spots and none of this happened before they arrived.
I'd take a picture, but none of them would stand still long enough for my camera to focus on them. I'll take one as soon as they stand still. Just got a picture of the Scopus, just need a moment for it to be sent to my email and I'll be able to post it.
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