Dipping freshly dead fish is a good way to diagnose flukes, but most species require a microscope to see them.
Yeah there were little flat clear things that looked like scales to me and not like flukes. Looked nothing like poppy seeds
Hippo tang, flame angel, spotted puffer, tomini wrasse and a banded snake eel.
Should I still treat Prazipro? I really don’t wanna dose it if I don’t have too and it still hasn’t arrived yet. I stopped dosing rally pro yesterday which that was 5 days I dosed it and still dosing kick ich
Yes, you’ll need to treat the whole tank for Neobenedenia. Your best option would be half salinity for 30 days (1.012) bot of course, you cannot treat tanks with invertebrates that way. The second best option is three doses of Prazipro, with good aeration, spaced 8 days apart.
Ok so I just got the prazipro in and I’m gonna dose it today! It won’t kill my soft corals will it? All the fish are still eating and the hippo is starting to come out and swim more and the flame angel still has some white spots that look like ich or velvet but iv been treating for that for almost a week now but he is still eating and stuff
90 gallon
Therein lies a primary source of your continued problems. A 70g tank with rocks.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say
You have (had) multiple fish in your tank that were never intended to be kept in an undersize system like yours. You added the butterfly which raised the fish stress level to the breaking point and resulted in their immune systems being severely compromised. You have also mentioned visible signs of aggression in the tank most likely due to overstocked environment. When fish immune systems fail disease is easy to take hold such as ich or flukes, etc... your remains fish will need to be treated in QT with copper and your tank will have to fallow for 45 to 76 days.
There was no aggression at all even when I added the butterfly! I have had all those fish for at least 2 years so idk where you got the aggression from?
You mentioned torn fins on the clown which you observed before passing.
I don’t think there is enough background info to jump to that conclusion. It could be true, but if the tank has been stable for a year or so, and then the recent addition of a grenade, it may have just been a grenade. However, your point is very valid when he considers restocking.
For sure but if you add some of those fish he had in there as tiny 2 inch swimmers and over the next year or two they grow into 7 to 9 inch adults well the stress level in the confined space increases exponentially and that affects their immune systems in my opinion. We clearly see this regularly with tangs. They go from the ocean to the tank and boom ich starts.
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