Taking Fish on a Plane from Japan

I do plan on doing all that. I will QT the other fish as well. Luckily, I have very few fish.

But for immediate action, would you guys remove him right away? It will take a little while to capture the other fish without tearing apart my tank. I hate to stress him out but I guess I have no choice?
 
I don't know what you paid for all your other fish, but my #1 priority would be that baby Interruptus. You said he's skinny, so that probably means he's weakened and his immune system lowered. He's also a baby... I just wouldn't like his chances vs. a Crypto infestation.

TT sounds like an ideal option for him. But before you commit to that, be absolutely positive it's Crypto and not Velvet. TT does nothing for Velvet; You'd need to do copper if it were Velvet.

P.S. Also, consider the possibility that your tank infected the Interruptus and not the other way around. Did you QT all your other fish before placing them in the DT? Sometimes Crypto doesn't show itself with obvious symptoms, especially if all your other fish have healthy immune systems. The opposite being true for the Interruptus may be why he is the only one with white spots.
 
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I did QT the other fish but who knows. Ich could have been introduced with new inverts or what not.

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Yeah, that's Ich. Sorry :(

Just consider it a lesson learned. I had to go fallow and treat all my fish for Ich TWICE last year. I now QT and prophylactically medicate all of my fish.
 
if you let your fish to the DT after the day it arrived through 15 hours journey you made BIG mistake....anyway catch it and QT it(even if it adds stress a bit more in the process)immediately....that's your best chance(way better than isolating it in a box)
did it get intimidated by other fishes...?

i would suggest feed it in the QT frequently for a week(if it keeps appetite) and then start medication....unless the infection becomes very high....

P.S:invert doesn't carry itch parasite..there exist thousand of inverts inside rocks and crevices in a tank,so 'fallowing a tank for months' would have made no practical purpose if it was really the case...
 
auem, I had the fish in a small QT for a day to settle down and eat. It looked really good so that's why I put it in the DT. Once again, my lapse in judgement. I have no idea why I had a brain failure. I think I was more worried about keeping water temp/quality in check with the small volume of water in the QT.

I only have very passive fish incl. 3 dispar anthias, earlei pair and my joc ignored the fish.
 
if you can't lower the temp of QT,then it is a big problem....this fish need cooler temp.....so i understand your dilemma.....then i am sorry to say that your lack of judgement lies in your 'tempted' purchase....
but anyway that is past....buy a small cheap chiller and a canister(good enough for filtering) and run the QT again....i still think it is the best sol...definitely safest....you already invested around $2000 for this fish...do another $500 or so...
better play safe than sorry...
 
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auem, I had the fish in a small QT for a day to settle down and eat. It looked really good so that's why I put it in the DT. Once again, my lapse in judgement. I have no idea why I had a brain failure. I think I was more worried about keeping water temp/quality in check with the small volume of water in the QT.

I only have very passive fish incl. 3 dispar anthias, earlei pair and my joc ignored the fish.
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If you can, just run the lights for a few hours a day. No idea if you have corals, but they can go for some time on a substantially reduced lighting schedule and the cooler water really does slow the reproduction of ich. Couldn't hurt to dump several more cleaner shrimp in their either. Soaking the food in garlic does work pretty well to help further slow the spread.

As a side question - does anyone know if its bad for fish to run through the x-ray machine? Having imported quite a few fish - to this day I have no idea if they went through the x-ray.
 
Due to his size the prognoses is bleak at best.

Your best option at this point is to place him in a well stocked reef tank and try to get him eating asap. Worry about treating the protist infection later.

Hope everything works out for you and the fish.
 
I read this thread from the start, when you got to the white spots thing, I wanted to post that you should not be too much concerned and make a sudden action that will kill the fish, but then I saw the picture and that fish does not look good.

Small Centropyge sp are delicate, they need to eat a lot.
Your fish is skinny and have a lot of white spots.

If it's still feeding, I'd move it to a large reef system , without any fish that can be aggressive.
If you plan to QT it, be very careful with the copper you doze.
 
I would put the fish in a small QT with some rock and a HOB filter. Continue feeding about 5x day. After 3-4 days if the fish is eating well, I would slowly introduce cupramine. Thats only if you intend on letting your DT go fallow for 8-10 weeks.

If not, then I would just do a series of 1hr formalin dips. Maybe every other day, for 3 total dips. That and 2 treatments of prazi. Then after the fish is eating well for about 3 weeks, then reintroduce into the DT.

Thats a very nice looking fish. G'luck with it.
 
I would get him into a QT and treat with Cupramine immediately-bringing up the Cu levels slowly over a few days and testing often. I'd get some air stones in the tank as well (something around 20 gallons).

Same thing happened to me with my angel. I was committed to saving it so I set up a plan and stuck with it. It included a 20% water change (With aged and Cu treated water) every day. Barebottom tank, vacumming the bottom during the water change at around 6am for 3 weeks straight-- I did the water change at 6am for a reason based on the cycle of ich and the parasites' reactive state to photoperiods.

After 2 weeks, he was clean and eating slowly. After a month, he was at full strength. It was a baby, baby, baby Majestic Angel.

I wish you good luck and hope you can turn this around.
 
I heard flam angels do not take well to copper and thy are also in the centropyge genus...
Mybe have a look at bucket method in 7 days the fish is white spot free. The only problem is feeding with bucket method. You will only get a once a day chance to feed. But if the interrupta is eating nori you can get away with it by keeping it constantly in the bucket

Also look at chloroquine

But start treetment immediately! While the fish is still strong and eating
 
I dont have any experience with flame angels, but I did QT 5 lemon peels with .4-.5ppm cupramine without issue. I've also treated the following angels with cupramine(3-4wks) without any real issue... personifer/meredithi x4, emp, blueface, passer, scribbled x2, chrysurus angel.

I've only killed 1 angel with cupramine. It was a flagfin and my 1st angel fish. I had an expired copper test kit and OD it.
 
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