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Now my sailfin tang is getting these subtle little porcupine nodules all over his body and fins. Doesn’t seem like ich to me? This is driving me crazy because all the fish are getting weird different symptoms. Haven’t dosed any medication yet. Just focusing on water qualify and food supplementation. View attachment 3078653View attachment 3078654View attachment 3078655
Just jumping in here late...I was out the day of your original post.
To recap:
The fish are breathing moderately fast, yet there is good aeration.
The water is slightly hazy, but you report zero ammonia.
Nitrite is NOT toxic to marine fish and nitrate is not toxic to them in this sort of a scenario.
The stuff in the bottom of the dip containers are not flukes. However, only one type of fluke can be seen in dip water without a microscope, so your fish could still have flukes.
In this recent photo of the sailfin, I can't rule out ich - on the caudal fin, it does look like it could be.
However, with all that information, you are still left with some combination of ich, flukes and/or bacterial disease. Given the five days since your first post, I think you can rule out ich at this point. That leaves flukes and/or secondary bacterial disease. The FW dips help reduce flukes, but do not cure the fish, and then, there is the issue with the fish needing to recover from the damage from the flukes.
If it were my tank, I would dose with with General Cure (or maybe Prazipro)
Jay