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I have no idea what this is or how to treat it. I have a 50 total net water volume tank. It has one very large rock that I moved from a 125 gallon system over a year ago. Everything was seemingly fine until July 1 when the tank completely crashed for still unclear reasons. Everything was fine at lights out, went to ER in middle of night for illness and when we got home around 7 everything looked like it was dying and all my snails were dead and fire shrimp almost dead, peppermint shrimp and hermits were fine. Fish were severely stressed and anemones were barely hanging on.
Was able to move most of my livestock except the anemones out of the tank into hospital tanks and eventually everything made a full recovery. But my tang developed a weird black spot on its tail fin and a couple of ich-looking white spots above one eye. He was eating and breathing and acting normal, as he is now, but I moved him into a hospital tank and treated with copper for about 3 weeks. He was blemish free after 24 hours so figured I could put him back in DT. Almost immediately spots appeared again but only a few and then they would go away. Now, over the past week he has developed this lesion. Still eating and reaching normally but I’m worried
I can put him back in copper but I’m more concerned about what’s going on in my tank. I did an ICP test about 6 weeks ago and it was fine. I’ve had some trouble keeping the temp where I want it, been running warm lately, heater hasn’t been kicking on but when I turn the fan on it drops the temp too much too fast so I’ve just been letting it be.
Current parameters:
Temp - 79.3
Specific gravity - 1.025
dKH - 8.3
PO4 - .14
NO3 - 2.5
many ideas on what this growth/lesion is? Copper my best strategy? Do I need to treat the whole tank? I’m dry fitting plumbing for my new 110 g and I’m scared to move all my rocks and corals and livestock into it if there’s something in the tank causing this. As you can see everything else looks happy
I have no idea what this is or how to treat it. I have a 50 total net water volume tank. It has one very large rock that I moved from a 125 gallon system over a year ago. Everything was seemingly fine until July 1 when the tank completely crashed for still unclear reasons. Everything was fine at lights out, went to ER in middle of night for illness and when we got home around 7 everything looked like it was dying and all my snails were dead and fire shrimp almost dead, peppermint shrimp and hermits were fine. Fish were severely stressed and anemones were barely hanging on.
Was able to move most of my livestock except the anemones out of the tank into hospital tanks and eventually everything made a full recovery. But my tang developed a weird black spot on its tail fin and a couple of ich-looking white spots above one eye. He was eating and breathing and acting normal, as he is now, but I moved him into a hospital tank and treated with copper for about 3 weeks. He was blemish free after 24 hours so figured I could put him back in DT. Almost immediately spots appeared again but only a few and then they would go away. Now, over the past week he has developed this lesion. Still eating and reaching normally but I’m worried
I can put him back in copper but I’m more concerned about what’s going on in my tank. I did an ICP test about 6 weeks ago and it was fine. I’ve had some trouble keeping the temp where I want it, been running warm lately, heater hasn’t been kicking on but when I turn the fan on it drops the temp too much too fast so I’ve just been letting it be.
Current parameters:
Temp - 79.3
Specific gravity - 1.025
dKH - 8.3
PO4 - .14
NO3 - 2.5
many ideas on what this growth/lesion is? Copper my best strategy? Do I need to treat the whole tank? I’m dry fitting plumbing for my new 110 g and I’m scared to move all my rocks and corals and livestock into it if there’s something in the tank causing this. As you can see everything else looks happy
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