Which of the 3 diseases is this?!

itsamanda

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Ich, Marine Velvet, or Clownfish diease?

Well, I have pretty much come to the realization that there is SOMETHING not right in my tank. :( Can't figure out which it is..
55 gallon FOWLR, water quality was just checked, pH was slightly low.

My clowns have come up with white spots all over their body. They are slightly glazed with a very thin whitish film. It does not fall off their body from what I see. I just today saw one with white poop. It did not start at their gills from what I can tell. because of the white film I noticed I thought it was the clownfish disease. But heres the thing..

I just lost a newly introduced baby blue tang (no white spots on him or any of my fish when i introduced him). Noticed white spots on his body (ich I'm assuming). Wierd thing was he was eating and not hiding much. Just the white spots. And then one morning he was gone :( So i'm thinking my issue is now ich that has spread.

One clown is hiding a lot, although they are all still eating. No mucus in their mouths. Just white spots, white thin film, white poop, and hiding. I can't figure out which disease it might be :/
 
It sounds like ich, ich can spread fast and wipe an entire tank; believe me it happened to me. Something you can try is putting cleaner shrimp in your tank but first you should treat the sick fish in a quarantine tank, include all fish cause the fish don't need to show dots to be sick. That's what I can advise you, maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in.
 
Cleaner Shrimp will not do anything to help with or cure ich unfortunately.
Do a google search and you will find out.
 
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