Sick Heniochus - What to do?

[falconut]

I'm not sure exactly what it has and don't want to treat for the wrong thing. Here are crappy photos, of course my good camera's batteries are dead:

As you can see, it's got very small whitish stuff all over it. I got it on Thursday and it looked great. I put it in my QT and it looked fine Friday. Saturday, I noticed that it's clear parts of the fins were no longer clear. They had turned a hazy white. Now Sunday morning it is as the photos show. Should I dip, should I treat? What should I use to treat? If I dip, how long? Also, should the fresh water dip be the same temp & pH as my tank? Also, it is eatting. I currently have the following medications: Quick Cure, by Aquarium Products; Metronidazole, by Seachem; Focus, by Seachem and and old batch of Paragon, by Aquatronics.

Help please, I hope it's early enough to savethe fish, but I shouldn't wait any longer.

 

[falconut]

I appears that it has ich. So, I've decided to soak the food in the Metronidazole and treat the tank. We'll seehow this works.

 

[falconut]

It died. This is the 2nd time the fish I treated by dosing the tank was dead the next day. So needless to say, I won't ever use this product like that again.

I am amazed that nobody replied at all. I was all set to purchase whatever the majority of people suggested, but nobody made any suggestions and I was forced to try what I had. Bad decission. Poor fish.

 

[Valab]

Sorry your Heniochus died. Clearly it had ich. Remember that it might have died regardless of treatment. Copper would have been my choice treatment.

Hopefully the metronidazole was done in a Q tank (?). Wouldn't want to put that in a live rock tank.

If you get another Henoichus, get a H. diphreutes. The acuminatus that you had is not friendly to softies.

 

[falconut]

Yes, it was in my QT tank.

I'm pretty sure it was a H. diphreutes. The Black band split the anal fin in half and it also had the slight break in it's curve. The curve of the black band that is.

 

[Valab]

It is hard to tell the difference in juveniles unless it will sit still long enough to count spines (or you take a pict).

From your pict #1 I can count 7 spines after the banner:

7 = acuminatus.
8 = diphreutes