Help? Anyone?

[wrassecal]

OK, I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with my fish. Started 3 weeks ago with a few white salt looking spots on yellow tang and royal gramma fins only. Got good info here, set up h tank, started hypo then got called out of town. No one to continue to lower salinity, put them back in main tank and figured I'd come home to dead fish and sister in shock from having to deal with it (sis was tank sitter)so now I'm 3 weeks into this and fish still act fine, watch for hiding, scratching, loss of appetite etc and they are fine except for a 2 - 3 spots on back and side fin. Gramma now has no spots and tom clown has never had any. Everyone acting just fine. What is going on? <img src="graemlins//confused.gif" border="0" alt="[confused]" />

 

[wrassecal]

I can still see a couple spots on the back fin of the tang. Could it be something other than ich? Everyone else keeps mentioning losing fish to ich and them getting covered and mine just aren't having all these symptoms.

 

[beth]

DAB, we've gone around and around with this so much. <img src="graemlins//eek.gif" border="0" alt="[eek]" />
The fish must be in hypo for the duration of treatment .
How long exactly have the fish been in hyposalinty with the specific gravity at exactly 1.009. You are not at treatment level until you attain that exact specific gravity, so don't count the time that it took you to lower your salinity. Also, don't count the time you continue seeing spots. Start counting when you no longer see the spots.
[You could have just left the fish in the hospital tank while you were out of down. At least that way your tank would be clear by now.]

 

[wrassecal]

well I never had it down to 1.009 when I had to leave and a big duh!!! to me for not just leaving them in there and letting the main tank at least cycle out the ich problem. Taking sis out to dinner tonight...going to suck up big time to see if I can get her to learn the hypo thing with me and take care of it while I'm gone next. So, you guys DEFINATELY think this is ich and not some other parasite?

 

[wrassecal]

Yeah, she'll have to monitor ammonia, and probably do a 2 gal change each day (which I can make up ahead of time). The tang is pretty big so gotta siphon that fishie poopoo out every day. There will be 3 fish in a 20 gal. We can make it work though.