Sick Fish

[pistilli]

Hi, I'm having a sudden outbreak of something in my tank but don't really know what, or what to do. It started when my coral beauty angel's eyes turned somewhat hazy, then nearly opaque white, and they've been going back and forth like that for about two weeks now. Then I noticed one of my two clowns became covered with white spots about a week ago that look kind of like ich, then my royal gramma became covered as well. The other clown has been completely fine the whole time, the gramma and clown get spots on their eyes but not the cloudiness, and the angel has never had spots. I also have three chromis who have had no symptoms at all, and yet suddenly today when I got home one was dead and one appears to me missing (I'm assuming dead in the rockwork, I'll need to find him...).

I've been stepping up my 10% water changes that I used to do once a week, so now I've done about 6 or 7 in two weeks. My nitrates are about 15-20ppm, phosphate is lowish (I can't read the colors on that one well...), pH is about 8.3, salinity is 1.024, temp is 78F. The tank is a 45 gallon bowfront with about 15 gallons in the sump.

All my inverts seem to be doing well and I haven't introduced anything new into the tank in about a year. The only thing at all that's changed is about a month ago I started feeding a free sample of new life spectrum. Other than that I've been feeding the same dry crumble food and assorted frozen cubes (which are almost done now) the whole time as well.

Does anyone know what's going on? Or more specifically, why am I having all these different symptoms in different fish?

 

[Barracuda1]

Its ick and all of fish are infected, you should medicate them all as soon as possible but you may still lose some more fish at this level of infection. The angel shows infection from the eyes. Others show it in different ways but the inverts dont have it, but they are carriers

 

[pistilli]

Unfortunately I don't really have a place to medicate them, even if I could manage to catch them... I've been really cautious about not getting an infection in the first place, which is why I don't understand how this all popped up suddenly, since I really haven't added anything! Is there anything I can do to help them survive the outbreak? I have a cleaner shrimp in there who always works on the angel (who's a bit clumsy, always scraping scales and such while he's poking around the rocks), but he doesn't seem to touch the clowns or the gramma.

 

[Barracuda1]

Theres hyposalinity but that takes alot of time and can sometimes affect reef tanks, but there reef safe medications which people say are questionable, but Ive had success with one called NO ICK