Parasite Problem PLEASE HELP

[Kgonzalez]

After 8 months, 30 dead fish and a lot of research, I think I've finally figured out the problem. My fish have been showing signs of fluke worms. I own a 29 gallon biocube and for the first six months, I was doing fine. Water parameters are perfect, the entire back wall is covered with coraline and my corals are growing very rapidly. However, about 8 months ago, I started losing fish. Any fish I put in there will not last more than 2 weeks, eventually having signs of fluke worms (white velvet on skin, cloudy eyes, chewed up fins and eventually death). What confuses me is that one fish has survived this entire time; a green chromis. It shows none of the symptoms and has survived in the tank when others couldn't.

I'm tired of losing fish and am very near medicating my entire tank but I'm scared that I will lose my corals. I currently have have a few sps frags which are doing great, a duncan that has more than doubled in size, star polyps, a colt coral, a green monti and an acan along with hermits and bristle star fish.

Can I save my tank without starting over? If so, how?

If anyone could give me some advise it would be very much appreciated. The tank looks great with all these corals that its a shame not to be able to have fish...

 

[billsreef]

I'd suggest getting that chromis out of the tank and treating it in a seperate quarantine/hospital tank. While doing that, leave the tank fishless for 6 to 8 weeks...fish parasites need fish to live on

Praziquantel can also be used to treat for flukes in a reef tank, but the remove fish method above will also let any other parasites such as ich die out.

After clearing the tank and fish of parasites, quarantine all new fish for a good 4 to 6 weeks (the longer the better) to avoid introducing new parasites.

 

[Kgonzalez]

Thank you Bill. I'll try it out.

 

[Timber77]

i would give it 3 months fishless,,,if you put fish back in too early defeats the whole purpose are you QT all these 30 fish first?