What is this on my hippo?

[baondayko]

It almost looks like blotches. Any thoughts?

Thanks

 

[jt_milstead]

Looks like Ich to me...

 

[livingcorals]

+1 on the Ich

 

[bkcjames]

the dreaded ick....

 

[PaxRoma]

ich

 

[tangfish]

Ich, I seen the same "spots" before, treat fast!!! I have seen many Blue Hippos die from ich. Good luck and start treatment ASAP.

 

[RBU1]

It does appear to be ich. How long have you had the fish? Did you add anything to your tank recently?

How do you want to proced you have some options....

1.) remove all the fish from your main tank and treat them in a treatment tank.
2.) feed good and keep the water quality excellent and hope for the best.

 

[baondayko]

I've had it for almost three years. Got it when it was a little tike. I recently added a wrasse within the last month. Question - how big does a treatment tank need to be? I've got perhaps 13 fish and a lot of rockwork in a 265 gallon. Of course I sold my 90 gallon to do the 265 upgrade.

Will the ich keep coming back? Lets say the hippo pulls through fine, will it get infected again in 'x' weeks?

Thanks for all the help. This is one of my favorite fish.

 

[RBU1]

It is always possible that the ich could come and go. I went thru it in my 300 till it wiped out my entire tank. From that point on I QT every fish. I purchased a 125 to use as my treatment/QT tank. Sad to say all the fish that were in my 300 I was going to move to the 125 treatment tank but they did not make it. So now I have a REALLY large QT.

If it were me because I have been thru it. Get yourself a decent size QT/ treatment tank and treat all your fish leaving your main display fishless for 12 weeks. In my opinion its not worth the fear of wondering could adding that next fish wipe my tank out.

 

[RegalAngel]

Here is a Hippo with Ich:

http://www.reeftime.com/images/blue-tang-marine-ich.jpg

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...mage_result&resnum=5&ct=image&ved=0CBUQ9QEwBA

Not sure that is what is on yours...much more salt look than blotchy.

 

[baondayko]

Thanks RegalAngel.

This is why I came to the forums. When I look at pictures of ich on fish, it looks like the pictures you've linked to. My hippo is much more of faint whitish skin blotches vs white dots. She (not really sure, but the kids call her Dori) is eating like a pig (normal) and has shown no signs of rubbing against things and is always extremely active. I am increasing the feeding to the tank and am going to use some Zoe in the food.

I am not fully convinced that she has ich, however, am watching the situation extremely carefully.

 

[RegalAngel]

If it looks more like this:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7581681&postcount=39

Then that would be Brooklynella.

 

[bradjenny]

exactly what my dori had. she almost look like sand was all over her. that is what i thought it was til well i took a bunch of dead fish out including her. time to start over

 

[Amici316]

Thats what the countless hippos I have seen that have ich look like. That link that regalangel posted is an incredibly bad case of ich. If you have had the fish a while, just keep feeding well and make sure to add garlic, seachem metronitizole and seachem focus to the food. Having said that to rid your tank of ich you have to have all the fish out of it for at least a month but more like 2 months so all the free swimming ones will be dead. In all honesty if you keep your fish well fed and healthy then ich should have minimal affect on them.

 

[RBU1]

Thats what the countless hippos I have seen that have ich look like. That link that regalangel posted is an incredibly bad case of ich. If you have had the fish a while, just keep feeding well and make sure to add garlic, seachem metronitizole and seachem focus to the food. Having said that to rid your tank of ich you have to have all the fish out of it for at least a month but more like 2 months so all the free swimming ones will be dead. In all honesty if you keep your fish well fed and healthy then ich should have minimal affect on them.

More like 3 month fallow period. 12 weeks is best....

 

[baondayko]

I am feed Spectrum Thera-A at this point. I am also closely monitoring other fish for the slightest signs of infection. Everything going relatively well thus far. We'll see what happens in the near future.

 

[sfboarders]

I just bought a blue hippo and it had ich. When the salt grains went away it had white blotches where the ich was just like your pic. Good luck on treatment.