Hey all,
First time using emergency prefix but think this warrants it as it may mean a tear down of my aqua scape and corals.
My small hippo tang is scratching (flashing?) itself up against a chalice coral. I noticed it last night and it is still going on this morning.
All of my other fish seem fine.
I have 5 firefish that have been in tank for months. A biota yellow tang who was in a smaller tank for about 3 months. Two clowns from a clown breeder who have been in for two months. Just added a small foxface from LFS that was in their system running therapeutic copper for over a month before I purchased.
I have added a a lobo and small torch from same LFS, and a lobo from a website over the last 10 days.
Of course I am thinking ich, but I do not see white spots on the hippo, or anyone else. The foxface who would have been the likely culprit being from LFS looks just fine.
Everyone is eating like a pig.
I REALLY don’t want to tear my 72 gal RSR down with 50+ corals, but I will if I have to. I had a bout with what I believe to have been velvet after which I left tank fallow for over three months save for one firefish that didn’t get it and a fairy wrasse who didn’t get it, and who has since bailed from the tank before I got my Kraken lid.
I do maintain a cycled 40 gallon breeder as a qt tank they can be transferred to in the event of a tear down but the thought of doing this gives me a near panic attack.
Any suggestions? Could this be something other than ich? Do hippos just flash? Any help is greatly appreciated.
* please - no tang police. The blue tang is a baby and the yellow tang is still a juvenile and I will certainly either have a 240+ tank or rehome to a friend before they have outgrown this tank.
First time using emergency prefix but think this warrants it as it may mean a tear down of my aqua scape and corals.
My small hippo tang is scratching (flashing?) itself up against a chalice coral. I noticed it last night and it is still going on this morning.
All of my other fish seem fine.
I have 5 firefish that have been in tank for months. A biota yellow tang who was in a smaller tank for about 3 months. Two clowns from a clown breeder who have been in for two months. Just added a small foxface from LFS that was in their system running therapeutic copper for over a month before I purchased.
I have added a a lobo and small torch from same LFS, and a lobo from a website over the last 10 days.
Of course I am thinking ich, but I do not see white spots on the hippo, or anyone else. The foxface who would have been the likely culprit being from LFS looks just fine.
Everyone is eating like a pig.
I REALLY don’t want to tear my 72 gal RSR down with 50+ corals, but I will if I have to. I had a bout with what I believe to have been velvet after which I left tank fallow for over three months save for one firefish that didn’t get it and a fairy wrasse who didn’t get it, and who has since bailed from the tank before I got my Kraken lid.
I do maintain a cycled 40 gallon breeder as a qt tank they can be transferred to in the event of a tear down but the thought of doing this gives me a near panic attack.
Any suggestions? Could this be something other than ich? Do hippos just flash? Any help is greatly appreciated.
* please - no tang police. The blue tang is a baby and the yellow tang is still a juvenile and I will certainly either have a 240+ tank or rehome to a friend before they have outgrown this tank.
