Omg!!!!

[saltyfishy123]

Almost all my fish are sick. At first my Hippo tang got popeye, I put her into a QT tank and started to dose it with melafix and it works its eye is getting better. Now EVERYONES sick my two yellow tangs are coverd with something not ich but looks like fungas. It look like flower. Now my Naso tang got pop eye and so did my Coral beuty angel. And it looks like one of the yellow tangs also has popeye next to the fungas. It cant be my water quality I just did a 40 gallon water change on a 175g tank. Im thinking on trying to catch them but that would be a huge job. Thanks god I have 4 days of.

Thanks,
Patrik

 

[flinster]

Re: Omg!!!!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8597053#post8597053 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltyfishy123
Almost all my fish are sick. At first my Hippo tang got popeye, I put her into a QT tank and started to dose it with melafix and it works its eye is getting better. Now EVERYONES sick my two yellow tangs are coverd with something not ich but looks like fungas. It look like flower. Now my Naso tang got pop eye and so did my Coral beuty angel. And it looks like one of the yellow tangs also has popeye next to the fungas. It cant be my water quality I just did a 40 gallon water change on a 175g tank. Im thinking on trying to catch them but that would be a huge job. Thanks god I have 4 days of.

Thanks,
Patrik

Just because you did a large water change does not mean your water quality is OK. Check. Fungal, bacterial(popeye) usually means high nitrates. What are your levels?

 

[saltyfishy123]

Do you have any idea what I should to lower nitrates? Im not really good with these parameter stuff.

Thanks,
Patrik

 

[Steven Pro]

Re: Omg!!!!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8597053#post8597053 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltyfishy123
It look like flower.

Do you mean flour? It is looks like your fish have a fine dusting on them, it could very well be marine velvet, which is not good.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-07/sp/feature/index.htm

Can you post any pictures of your sick fish?

 

[saltyfishy123]

haha yeah I ment flour I was tierd last night. Well today is a bad day when I looked into my tank one of the yellow tangs passed away. My plan is to drain the entire tank and put all fish into a QT for a while. All my coral are healthy so im confused, the nit cant be water quality. Do you know melafix is reef safe I put it into my system and all corals closed up.

 

[Steven Pro]

If you fish do indeed have velvet, MelaFix won't do anything to help them.

 

[saltyfishy123]

DO you know what will help like adding copper. PLEASE HELP ME!!!! And wheb I tank everything out should I do a 100% water change to get everything hamful out.

 

[Steven Pro]

Please read the link I provided above.