My fish are sick. Plse help.

[paul46]

I bought 2 tomato clownfish about a week ago. they had some white on them which i thought to be white spot. they got worse so i spiked up the temp 2 degrees and no light for 2 days as advised by a friend. today the fish are worse. water change is due dont know if to do it. i cannot remove the fish and i have no nursery tank. it is a 10 gallon reef tank. anemones and corals and feather worms doing fine. plse help me what shall i do i am deperate. thanks.

 

[flower]

Welcome to the site...bummer about the fish. You do need a hospital tank, to do hypo. Sounds like your fish have ich.
With no hospital tank, you can't really do anything. When the fish die, let the tank sit fish free for 6 to 8 weeks without any fish for the parasite to die off.
You can try not stressing the fish, and give them chunks of raw shrimp soaked in fresh garlic juice. They might be able to fight off the parasite and live. However any fish you add will be stressed and by sheer numbers kill all the fish anyway. So you can't add any more fish.

 

[paul46]

thanx had more or less sussed it out. not much to do so i soaked them in fresh water hoping it will kill the parasite. i only have one more fish yellow tailed damsel but no sighns of him being sick. manged to catch clowns in net. have them there so i can remove if they die. thanks for advice.

 

[btldreef]

Have you looked through the diseased fish section to identify what it is that they have? It could be ich, brooklynella or lymphocytis.

 

[meowzer]

You can't just hold them in a net indefinitely......the stress alone of that will surely kill them
either set up a hospital tank, or let them go free.....if it is ich you have to treat the other fish anyhow