Poor fish just can't get better!!! Please help!

[TriniStylez]

Oh, and how quickly can the SG be raised back to 1.022 (which is what I like to keep my FOWLR tanks at)?

 

[sunfish11]

I was thinking you were putting him in your 65. I must have missed something. With 230gal I wouldn't worry to much.

I know there are some guidelines out there but I personally would go for .003 or so a day with the first day moving to .011 and the second at .014 and so forth. Watch the fish. He will let you know what he can tolerate. If he shows signs of stress go slower and if he doesn't care at all you may be able to push it a little more.

Lisa

 

[TriniStylez]

Thanks so much Lisa! You and Luke33 have really been such a great help and I am sure that its not ich but cauliflower disease...Kind of good news in a weird way. I will begin raising the salinity a bit each day now and hopefully after the weekend, he will be back in his home!

I do have a 65G tank but its a small reef, this fish is going in my 230G FOWLR and will have no tankmates, so he should have quite a bit of room!

 

[luke33]

Sorry bout the outgrow comment, thought he was in the 65g as well. He'll be happy in the 230g forever imo. As for the lymph, yea, its just a strange thing that happens to some fish. I've had angel's do it before and my DFP, all of which have completely recovered. Sometimes it gets fairly large and annoying but if you keep your water at good parameters it generally goes away. I like to feed garlic xtreem and selcon as well......not sure if it benefits or not, but it gives me piece of mind. And let me know if you need anything else. Glad its not ick! Oh yea, i'd suggest about 5 days to raise the salt back up. No sense in rushing it at this point. Its much harder to raise then lower.

 

[TriniStylez]

Yeah, I should list my new 230G tank...

I do already use selcon and garlic, so I will continue.

I accidentaly doubled the amount of salt I wanted last night when starting to raise the SG back up...raised it by .006 by accident! I was ready to quickly do another water change but he didnt react badly at all, so I kept an eye on him and he seemed fine. I left it and he seemed great today too. Not that I am going to keep raising it that quickly though! Tonight I will aim for .002 or .003. Now its right around 1.015.

I think things are good for now but thanks again for all your help! Who knows if I would have ever figured it out!

 

[bertoni]

Sorry for not diagnosing the lymphocystis. I should have thought of that. It might be worth continuing the hypo for the full 6 weeks, just in case there was some ich. That's what I would do, at this point.

 

[TriniStylez]

No worries...Thanks for your help before! I wish I had caught this earlier but I really didnt know about it and thought he had ich. I have already started raising the SG, so I guess I will just continue. Plus he actually has been in QT for 6 weeks now all together and shown no signs of ich, so I think he IS ich free. I really need to get him out of the less than ideal QT tank and into a big tank with great water quality I think...

 

[luke33]

Trini, good luck and i wouldn't be over concerned with the added salt to quickly, those fish ar tough. I'm just glad everything worked out alright. Its tough when you see something on your fish, you always want to pull it out and throw it in QT, when many times its better to just leave it be and make sure what s wrong first. Just MHO. Have a good one!

 

[Gdevine]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9474149#post9474149 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sunfish11
My guess is that this fish does not have ich but just has a couple of white spots. The reason I say this is because during the life cycle of Ich the parasite comes and goes as it goes through different stages in it's life cycle. Can you get a look at the spots with a magnifying glass? What do they look like exactly?

I agree.