Urgent help needed. A film of white spots covering almost all fishes.

[kaykay]

After the episode with the pbt, now almost all my fishes are infected.

The blue tang kena the worst. Deep blue skin colour now looks powdery dull blue.

Even anthias are not spared. One of them even has a pop eye.

A picture of the spot covering...

Just changed 20% water. Salinity went a bit too high. 1.026. Could this remotely be thread cause?

Any medicated food I can feed? Is adding any sort of medicine to food paste helpful?

Or any remedy pls suggest. I'll go down the farm tmr morning to get the necessary. Just narrow down my options

Thanks.

[Sotong Ball]

Ich! That's a nightmare. Cupramine and hypo is the only proven way to rid them and ur tank needs a long period of fallow. There is many discussion abt ich, google it.

[LittleBurger]

After the episode with the pbt, now almost all my fishes are infected.

The blue tang kena the worst. Deep blue skin colour now looks powdery dull blue.

Even anthias are not spared. One of them even has a pop eye.

A picture of the spot covering...

Just changed 20% water. Salinity went a bit too high. 1.026. Could this remotely be thread cause?

Any medicated food I can feed? Is adding any sort of medicine to food paste helpful?

Or any remedy pls suggest. I'll go down the farm tmr morning to get the necessary. Just narrow down my options

Thanks.

run uv? I know there's a brand for ich which is reef safe from seachem or aquafarm. Previously on old tank my blue tang n royal gamma got ich n I use the ich med can cure.

[serravorte]

Best method... take out all ur fishes to quarantine... tts if u haf the space and measures to do so...

2nd method... lower abit of ur salinity to mabb 1.023. DO NOT dose anything if u haf coral inside the tank...

do SALT MIX water change every 5 days, not NSW... and pray hard for it...

this is my simple and humble 2cents worth... works for me and i hope it will does for u...

cheers..

[kaykay]

Was reading up disease treatment in RC just..

Am wondering if this is marine velvet?

Thanks for all the advice above.

Will be looking to reduce sg tmr via DI water change..

Will also see if I can get a uv set to run the water through..

Thanks..

[Sotong Ball]

From the pic, looks more like ich than velvet. Velvet will kill ur fish very very fast within few days. IMO, changing water is not going to be have any major improvement but UV or Ozone does help abit.

[Gouldian]

From pix and descriptions, I feel its more like velvet.

http://www.ultimater...s/marinevelvet/

[theblob]

had this once where my whole population of fishes got ich (also from a PBT bought from CF!)

i ran UV lights (big wattage)...dose Aquapharm Cure ich (makes the water blue but at least i did not lose any corals). took me about 2 weeks to go back to normal but still lost a flameback, a adult ABT but my YT,PT,Flame, clowns and flamehawk survived...

i never fiddle with hyposalinity etc.. and also did my regular water change.

expensive lession for me after which i decided not to touch PBT ever even though the temptation is great!

you have to have the mindset that prepare for a wipeout and whoever survived is a bonus.........

[[V]tEc]

looks like 2nd wave came in. U have a few choices depending on how xtreme u wan to go.

1) water change everyday, pray hard

2) catch all fishes out and use copper/hypo in a QT.

Dont waste money on reef safe medi, they dont work. If this is velvet, every min counts, velvet kill damn fast, fast enough to wipe out all your fishes in 2 days.

[surreal1228]

I will say it is velvet.

I kana before killed 80% fish. Including clown fish.

Do what above bros said. And dose Cure Ich. Coarl safe. Can get from most if lfs. AM confirm has.

I got a spare uv set. Come n grab it to use first.

[kaykay]

I will say it is velvet.

I kana before killed 80% fish. Including clown fish.

Do what above bros said. And dose Cure Ich. Coarl safe. Can get from most if lfs. AM confirm has.

I got a spare uv set. Come n grab it to use first.

Thanks bro. See you later.

[Snoopyhamburger]

It's velvet.Ich doesn't have that many spots.

[kaykay]

Casualties.

Lost a fat Watanabei angel, and one of the smaller blue eye lyretail anthias.

Changed 10% water to reduce sg to 1.022. Another 10% tmr, while minting sg at 1.021.

Dosed "It's Clear" to bind any free swimming parasites.

Will be dosing "Cure Ich" in 12 hours.

*Thanks bro kkk121 for these above 2 items in such a short notice. Owe you one.

Running a 9W UV to kill the persistent ones. Of course the good nitrifying bacteria will be killed along the way too. Sigh, that's what chemotherapy does to human body cells too.

Hope casualty list will stop growing.

Update you guys along the way.

[[V]tEc]

all the best. last time i was running a 9w UV too. put and never put like no different. UV i think is more of a prevention than cure. also forget where i read up that UV need bigger and higher watts to work. those 9w ones are just for show. lol

[kaykay]

The fire shrimp has been busy throughout the day seeing patients requiring surface cleaning.

Seen here picking on one of the anthias and the blue tang. No queue number. Just treating both side by side. Lol..

[Gouldian]

If you need ozone, please contact me.

[surreal1228]

Casualties.

Lost a fat Watanabei angel, and one of the smaller blue eye lyretail anthias.

Changed 10% water to reduce sg to 1.022. Another 10% tmr, while minting sg at 1.021.

Dosed "It's Clear" to bind any free swimming parasites.

Will be dosing "Cure Ich" in 12 hours.

*Thanks bro kkk121 for these above 2 items in such a short notice. Owe you one.

Running a 9W UV to kill the persistent ones. Of course the good nitrifying bacteria will be killed along the way too. Sigh, that's what chemotherapy does to human body cells too.

Hope casualty list will stop growing.

Update you guys along the way.

Welcome bro. Hope get better soon.

[kaykay]

If you need ozone, please contact me.

Thanks for your offer. I'll monitor first.

Will contact you if needed.

[Solo77]

apart from the advices given, you can try to lower yr tank temperature, many activities will slow down..then let your other efforts improve the water.

[kaykay]

A little update.

Casualty list got longer.

5 anthias

Juvenile Atlantic blue tang

Watanabei angel

Mandarin fish

And of course, the powder blue tang.

Damn you, velvet!!

Still alive-

Clownfish pair

Firefish

Tailspot blenny

Blue tang

Alpha male blue eye anthias

Really heartache to see deaths.

So I tore apart the rockscape.

Caught all the remaining fish.

Administer cure ich in a separate tank.

Main tank is now fishless. Will remain so for 4 weeks at least.

Setting up a quarantine tank. All new fish has to go through QT for 4 weeks before intro from now on.

I can also start looking out for fish as soon as the QT is up and running.

Will be building a multi-independent-compartment QT to cut down waiting time.

Thanks for all the advice and concern.

I will come back stronger and wiser.

[kaykay]

Just walked out of Atlantic Glass.

Custom built a above mentioned multi-segment-tank for quarantine of new fishes.

Hands itchy already. Already planning my new fish list now to get myself out of this depressive mood..

Bwahaha. .

[Ahhyi]

Just walked out of Atlantic Glass.

Custom built a above mentioned multi-segment-tank for quarantine of new fishes.

Hands itchy already. Already planning my new fish list now to get myself out of this depressive mood..

Bwahaha. .

Wow Gratz. Wish I got space to set up qt tank.

But after ur tank full cannot put fish. What u do wth the qt tank?

[kaykay]

Haha got that planned out already.

The tank will have 3 compartments.

Height is standard at 12".

Compartments 1 & 2 are 6" x 12" each.

Compartment 3 is a 1' cube.

Once the first rounds of QT done, the 3rd compartment will be cycled properly and converted to a species tank, supported with a simple HOB skimmer. Not decided yet, but likely a predator tank -lionfish or frogfish.

The compartments 1 & 2 will be left empty for QT as and when I buy new fish..

[[V]tEc]

Wow Gratz. Wish I got space to set up qt tank.

But after ur tank full cannot put fish. What u do wth the qt tank?

depending on the size of the fish, u can buy those plastic toyo container. with a HOB, some filter media, your QT is ready for operation. after QT, can use the container to store your marine stuff. 2 in 1. when the need come 1 day, can use back.

in reefing, there's is never the word full. if tank is full, u will find the ugliest fish to sell and add the fish u want.

[kaykay]

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depending on the size of the fish, u can buy those plastic toyo container. with a HOB, some filter media, your QT is ready for operation. after QT, can use the container to store your marine stuff. 2 in 1. when the need come 1 day, can use back.

in reefing, there's is never the word full. if tank is full, u will find the ugliest fish to sell and add the fish u want.

Haha.. Couldn't have said it better.