Something weird is happening...

[sykomagnet]

Hi, ive had my tank set up for about 6 months now.
Ive got a bannerhead butterfly. Maroon Clown. Leopard Wrasse and a Watchman Goby.
The butterfly is the newest edition. I put him in and he was fine for about a week. Loving it, swimming about, making friends with the other guys.
Then randomly about 5 days ago he started acting all depressed. He's been floating in the same spot, hardly eating. Hiding behind a rock.
I checked him over and there didnt seem to be anything wrong, so i just thought he was acting weird.
Later that day i went to inspect him again and he was covered in little white spots!
It was night time by the time i noticed him, so the following morning we went to the LFS and got some stuff for white spot.
The spots have gone, theres only a few left, but he's still sat in the same spot. His appetite's gone up a bit, but when i first got him he was reeeeally greedy!
I just looked at my Maroon today and he's gone weird too!
He's floating in one spot (which he normally does anyway though, lol) and he's got weird greeny/blue blotches on him! He looks mouldy...
The thing is, my Wrasse is fine, and i thought she was the most sensitive in the tank!
We've tested everything, and all the levels and stuff are fine. Im really freaked

 

[carshark]

oh boy, have you researched the spots on him?? other than the ick, the moldy spots you speak of...any pictures etc etc....did you QT the new fish before adding him and what kind of chemicals did you use to get rid of the ich?, or attempt to.....get pics on here if you cant look it up doesnt sound good. also do you have loads of stray voltage?? etc etc you need to be more specific here.

 

[mr_bill]

Please post this in the "Disease & Treatment " forum. Beth is the expert on getting things figured out and will help you fastest in that forum. It could be awhile for her to see this post when she is helping others over there.

 

[sykomagnet]

ok i'll put it in there right away! its got worse!

 

[sykomagnet]

Theres no 'stray voltage' i put my hand in earlier and i didnt get electrocuted.
I dont have a quarantine tank, but ive had this fish reserved for months and nothings happened to him (or the other fish in the tank) So i thought it safe. And i get all my fish from there and they have been fine.
I suspect it was the marine mix i got from there. I bought it at the same time i got the bannerhead...
Heres a pic of my maroon:

 

[emporer]

ONLY IF ICH!!!!!! Stray voltage must be checked with a voltage meter. You should have a grounding probe in their just incase, even if their isnt any stray voltage. Now that you have ich... I have found hyposalinity.. being the best method of recovery!
THIS IS ONLY IF YOU HAVE ICH!!
1/ No inverts or corals in the display tank
2/ no lr
3/ leave only fish and sand with nothing else--- mayby some fake ornament for hiding
4/ decrease salt level gradually.. by dropping it down .02 daily
5/ do this until u reach .09
6/once .09 --- let sit for 5 weeks
7/ after 5 weeks... gradually raise salinity .01 every day
8/ when salinity is at .020-.025 --now safe to add any lr or coral that was removed
This process stops the parracite from reproducing..and the life span of protozoa( ICH) is approx 5 weeks-- which means ich canot live in salinity under .010 for more than 5 weeks
and eventually will be gone.
Remember!! Fish can only live is such low salinity .09.. any lR Inverts or corals will die,
so any of those will have to be place somewhere else for the 5 weeks.
During this you must think of why your fish have ich. Ich is usually a stress related issue.. so you should research and find what stressed your fish out (example:} Compatibility, Stray voltage, Poor water quality, too hot ,, too cold,, Poor diet, not enough water movement, and for personal advice, butterflys are not very hardy, and usually a very well estalished tank to thrive. (2 Years or so)
Things that can help:::: soak food in garlic--- Buy garlic guard anywhere at a petstore or online.. This boosts the fishes ammune system. Its for fish!
Soak food in vitamins also,
I also am in favor of UV sterilizers... tHEY HELP REDUCE ICH at its free swimming stages
and also help keep algea in control... so it will always serve a purpose IMO.

 

[dhughesz28]

Theres no 'stray voltage' i put my hand in earlier and i didnt get electrocuted.
First of all, thats a really dangerous way of checking for stray voltage.

When people have stray voltage it is on the average of 5 to 10 volts. I myself had 7 volts in my tank. Voltage this cannot be detected by putting your hand in the water! I didnt know I had stray voltage till I tested it, with a multimeter like Emporer said.
I had a yellow tang with HLLE, and could not figure out why. Once I put a ground probe in the tank, the tang got better within a week!!