Stressed Foxface...teeny white spots? Cloudy eyes?

[crazyzeus1]

Our foxface has been in our tank for less than 24 hours. He is still not completely out of "camoflage" mode as he has brown along his entire back still.
His eyes are a bit cloudy...just a milky-haze over them. I have also noticed TEEEENY white spots on the black-dot on his back (only on one side are the spots).
Our LFS service guy just tried to get him out of our tank, but was unable to becasue he kept hiding in the rocks. He said he didn't think the eye problem was ich...more likely cammo mode which could affect his eyes for a bit. Said the dots could be air bubbles most likely.
He does have a rice-sized lymphocystis (sp?) on his back tail....but I know that's a whole other story.
Does this sound like ich? I checked out the pics in previous threads, & while it does not look exactly like ich, I wonder about the cloudy eye thing.
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 5
Salinity 1.024
Temp 79.9
Thanks!

 

[beth]

Sounds like ich to me. What other fish do you have? And do you have live rock/corals/inverts?

 

[crazyzeus1]

Sorry....
We have 2 Green Chromis & 1 Dragonet.
We have 130lb liverock, 100gal tank
We have corals (spaghetti leather, colt coral, polyps of various types, mushrooms of various types, xenias)
Inverts (Emerald crabs, CBS, cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, Camel Back shrimp--will be setting up a trap to catch them soon as they are picking at our xenias--, 8 porcelain crabs, 2 brittle stars, hermits & snails)
I noticed that the teeny white bumps (smaller even than a copepod) are not flat against his skin, but raised enough where you can see them if you're looking at him (if he's facing away from you, with his tail towards you, so you see the skinny, flat line of the fish...not the broad side).

 

[beth]

Did you take a look at the pictures of fish with ich in the Diseased Fish Thread?
Well, you have ich in a reef tank. You can not effectively treat within that reef tank.
Starting feeding all your fish with meaty foods that have been soaked in fresh garlic juices at least 3x a day. This may help, but if not, the only thing to do is treat the fish [which means dismantling your tank somehow.]

 

[hot883]

Should always put new arrivals in QT. Didn't I read yesterday where you didn't need to because the LFS had him in qt? Or am I mistaken? Not trying to be a wise as_, just curious.

 

[ezee]

Hot,
Just from a personal perspective. From what I have researched QT'ing is so important that I would QT anyway, even if your fish store said they did it. I mean, its kind of tough to know what their params are or how they are doing things on a day to day basis.
Just my opinion though.
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