White Spot on Clown in QT but not on there

mkart

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I have a yellow tang, flame angel and a pair of clowns in my 28G QT right now. The QT/Observation tank has been up about 7 weeks. When I added them to the tank 9 days ago the clowns each had 1 visible white spot on them. The tang had what appeared to be black ich with about 6 black spots on him. I treated the tank with Prazipro and all the spots seemed to go away in about 3 days. I am now on day 6 and just added a second dose of Prazipro. I noticed the larger clown has a white spot again. The others are visually clear. If it was ICH I would have thought the tang would show it first. Could it be something else? I planned to dose cupramine next but am worried about the flame as the forum seems to indicate they do not do well in copper. Although the store I bought them from indicated they were in copper when I bought them. Any thoughts on next best steps?
 

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Looks like ich or possibly the very early stages of Brooklynella.

I would treat with copper + Seachem Metroplex for good measure.
 
I can start the copper on Thursday after the prazipro is done. I have metroplex but so far this fish won’t eat frozen, just pellets. How crazy is that.
 
I can start the copper on Thursday after the prazipro is done. I have metroplex but so far this fish won’t eat frozen, just pellets. How crazy is that.

I would dose Metroplex into the water (with copper) to treat for brook.
 
I would dose Metroplex into the water (with copper) to treat for brook.

Do you think it will be an issue to start metroplex tomorrow, 2 days after dosing prazipro? The larger clown has 4 spots on him today. I thought i would start cupramine this weekend and keep dosing metroplex.
 
Do you think it will be an issue to start metroplex tomorrow, 2 days after dosing prazipro? The larger clown has 4 spots on him today. I thought i would start cupramine this weekend and keep dosing metroplex.

Dosing Metroplex 2 days after Prazipro is fine. Just point a powerhead towards the surface of the water (or run an air stone) to compensate for oxygen depletion.
 
Dosing Metroplex 2 days after Prazipro is fine. Just point a powerhead towards the surface of the water (or run an air stone) to compensate for oxygen depletion.

Thanks, I have an air sponge filter running now in addition to a powerhead so I should be fine. The metroplex does not mention turning off your skimmer so I will probably turn that back on as well.
 
Thanks, I have an air sponge filter running now in addition to a powerhead so I should be fine. The metroplex does not mention turning off your skimmer so I will probably turn that back on as well.

In all likelihood the medication will cause it to overskim. I'd leave it off whilst dosing metro.
 
In all likelihood the medication will cause it to overskim. I'd leave it off whilst dosing metro.

I added my first dose today, of cupramine. Only 1.5ml for 28 gallons, trying to build slow. 2 clowns, yellow tang and flame angel in the tank. What level should I shoot for with these fish? .5 ppm appears high for the angel but the one clown still has white spots after 8 days of metroplex.
 
I added my first dose today, of cupramine. Only 1.5ml for 28 gallons, trying to build slow. 2 clowns, yellow tang and flame angel in the tank. What level should I shoot for with these fish? .5 ppm appears high for the angel but the one clown still has white spots after 8 days of metroplex.

I wouldn't go any lower than 0.5 ppm unfortunately. Despite what Seachem says, I don't trust Cupramine any lower than that.
 
My initial test before adding cupramine was .16ppm, after adding 1.5ml and letting it settle overnight I have .25ppm. Will test again later and add another .5ml tonight. I left the 3 live rocks and sponge filter in the tank and plan to only use them in this QT going forward. Not sure why I had .16 before dosing though. So far fish appear fine.


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