capnbob
Member
Hi,
I have a foxfaced rabbitfish who has ich. For the last 2 days or so I’ve noticed little white specks on him that looked like grains of salt. I thought it might be ich but I wasn’t sure if it was just bubbles stuck to his skin. Today I came home from work and it’s blown up all over his body and he’s no long a vibrant yellow like he normally is but a white-ish yellow.
I’ve been reading up on treating ich. There are a few contradictions that I’ve stumbled upon and so I have some questions that I’d like to ask before I buy anything to treat it tomorrow.
First off, I have a 46 gal. bow front reef tank with only three fish in it ATM. The fish are a percula clownfish, a blue damsel and my foxface rabbitfish.
My first question is do I need to now treat all 3 fish for ich even though only 1 fish is show signs? And if I do need to treat all of them do I only need to do a freshwater dip for the 2 that appear to be fine and then QT the rabbitfish, or QT all 3 fish?
Also, I can’t treat him with any additives until tomorrow because all of my LFS’s are closed right now. Should I do a freshwater dip right tonight to slow it down?
Lastly, I can’t figure out what the heck to treat it with. There are many options out there that I’m seeing and I don’t know which is most appropriate.
In case it’s asked here’s my equipment info:
46 gallon bowfront. Rena XP3 Canister Filter, Coralife Super Skimmer for up to 65 gallons. Two Maxi-Jet 1200's with Hydor Flo water deflectors. 200 Watt Marineland Stealth heater. About 50-70 lbs. of live rock. Current USA 36" Power Compacts w/ 1 - Dual Daylight Lamp (10,000K and 6,700K) and 1 - Dual Actinic Lamp (420nm and 460nm).
Nitrites, nitrates, pH, salinity, and ammonia are all at perfect levels.
…As a side note this is occurring about 4 days after my flame angel died from a cloudy eye infection of some sort that killed him and only 2 days after I ran through a generator nightmare because of a power outage that took place here. Frustrating indeed.
I have a foxfaced rabbitfish who has ich. For the last 2 days or so I’ve noticed little white specks on him that looked like grains of salt. I thought it might be ich but I wasn’t sure if it was just bubbles stuck to his skin. Today I came home from work and it’s blown up all over his body and he’s no long a vibrant yellow like he normally is but a white-ish yellow.
I’ve been reading up on treating ich. There are a few contradictions that I’ve stumbled upon and so I have some questions that I’d like to ask before I buy anything to treat it tomorrow.
First off, I have a 46 gal. bow front reef tank with only three fish in it ATM. The fish are a percula clownfish, a blue damsel and my foxface rabbitfish.
My first question is do I need to now treat all 3 fish for ich even though only 1 fish is show signs? And if I do need to treat all of them do I only need to do a freshwater dip for the 2 that appear to be fine and then QT the rabbitfish, or QT all 3 fish?
Also, I can’t treat him with any additives until tomorrow because all of my LFS’s are closed right now. Should I do a freshwater dip right tonight to slow it down?
Lastly, I can’t figure out what the heck to treat it with. There are many options out there that I’m seeing and I don’t know which is most appropriate.
In case it’s asked here’s my equipment info:
46 gallon bowfront. Rena XP3 Canister Filter, Coralife Super Skimmer for up to 65 gallons. Two Maxi-Jet 1200's with Hydor Flo water deflectors. 200 Watt Marineland Stealth heater. About 50-70 lbs. of live rock. Current USA 36" Power Compacts w/ 1 - Dual Daylight Lamp (10,000K and 6,700K) and 1 - Dual Actinic Lamp (420nm and 460nm).
Nitrites, nitrates, pH, salinity, and ammonia are all at perfect levels.
…As a side note this is occurring about 4 days after my flame angel died from a cloudy eye infection of some sort that killed him and only 2 days after I ran through a generator nightmare because of a power outage that took place here. Frustrating indeed.
