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Jay Hemdal

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Need help diagnosing and treating. All fish eating normal except 1. 4 fish have hazy eyes and skin looks hazy, 7 seem fine. May have white specs or maybe sand. Swimming normally, not rubbing on anything. All fish are in display tank. Have not added any new fish for over 6 months. Most of them I have has for 9+ years.

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That does not look like velvet at all. I cannot diagnose velvet without a clear video to check the breathing rate. However, I can see discrete spots which you would NOT see with velvet. With velvet, the fish breathes fast and stops feeding. This is either ich or flukes, or both. The cloudy eyes point to flukes, but the lack of scratching points to ich.

What fish is not eating normally?
Can you post a video of that fish, plus one of the tangs, under white light?
How long have they been showing symptoms?
Do you have a treatment tank available?
 
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I will try nd get a video of the Achilles tang that is not eating. The the only things I noticed was last week a few white spots on the Achilles and the fox face. But all fish acting normal, so I thought it was sand since I had not added new fish. Then this weekend the Achilles stopped eating but was swimming normally. Then yesterday I notice that his eyes were cloudy and so was 2 other fish. Also noticed their skin seems cloudy.
I do have a qt tank and I will be set up today.
 

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Can’t get video to post.
As said, Posting to YouTube is best.

You can try to diagnose rapid breathing yourself - try counting the gill beats of the fish for, say 10 seconds and multiple it out to get the number of beats per minute. The counts will vary, but anything over 100 is too fast and above 80 is abnormal.
 

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