yellowtail
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they hacve been laying on theiur side for several days now?.are they breathing?
Why O Why O Why
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debbie
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Don't flush them 
Let the tank slowly warm up with your heater in there. This will make for less stress on them. I have a pond outside. We had a major heat wave come through, before I had any shade cloth on there I seen 4 koi floating at the top.
I quickly had to remove some of this warm water and replace it with cold, they to were on their sides for the whole day and part of the next. Once they adapted to the water temp change they were back swimming and doing fine.
I know that pond fish should not be compared to marine but give it time and let the tank slowly go back up to where it was in the first place.
If you have ich when all temps are back up then you will have to treat, do you have a quarantine tank set-up?
If the three of them have ich remove them and treat them for ich so you don't harm any corals.
Many will disagree with me but I am a firm believer that copper gets rid of ick fast. I had to do this with my clown and chromis. I used a bare tank for this and used Aquarisol for the treatment. Never had a problem again.
You might must want to wait and see what becomes of this when all the fish are back to normal.
Best of luck to you :happyfish
Let the tank slowly warm up with your heater in there. This will make for less stress on them. I have a pond outside. We had a major heat wave come through, before I had any shade cloth on there I seen 4 koi floating at the top.I quickly had to remove some of this warm water and replace it with cold, they to were on their sides for the whole day and part of the next. Once they adapted to the water temp change they were back swimming and doing fine.
I know that pond fish should not be compared to marine but give it time and let the tank slowly go back up to where it was in the first place.
If you have ich when all temps are back up then you will have to treat, do you have a quarantine tank set-up?
If the three of them have ich remove them and treat them for ich so you don't harm any corals.
Many will disagree with me but I am a firm believer that copper gets rid of ick fast. I had to do this with my clown and chromis. I used a bare tank for this and used Aquarisol for the treatment. Never had a problem again.
You might must want to wait and see what becomes of this when all the fish are back to normal.
Best of luck to you :happyfish
jtutton
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If the fish are still alive and one has ich, get a cleaner shrimp and get some parasite stop. This is a pepper based product and you must add it 2x/day for 5 days. Even if you flush the one with ich (I don't see a need to kill a fish without trying to cure it), you shouldn't add a mated pair of clowns until the ich is gone. It's already in your tank.
I had a fish with ich and did some research on it. If it's little white grains of salt, and they seem to come and go, these are dinoflagelates that encyst on the fish and then hatch, hang in the water column, then reproduce and encyst on the fish again. You need to break the life cycle. You can, once the fish are swimming again, lower the salinity, this will help break the life cycle, but the cleaner shrimp and the parasite stop worked for me. I did have to add a buffer up solution since the parasite stop can reduce your ph.
Don't give up on the little guys, give them a chance!
I had a fish with ich and did some research on it. If it's little white grains of salt, and they seem to come and go, these are dinoflagelates that encyst on the fish and then hatch, hang in the water column, then reproduce and encyst on the fish again. You need to break the life cycle. You can, once the fish are swimming again, lower the salinity, this will help break the life cycle, but the cleaner shrimp and the parasite stop worked for me. I did have to add a buffer up solution since the parasite stop can reduce your ph.
Don't give up on the little guys, give them a chance!
14yroldkid
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i didnt say they had ich i said they might have it but thanks anyway
14yroldkid
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i dunno havnt been over his house to see:thinking:
14yroldkid
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no agents house
theishkid
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dude if they're still alive then they have a chance even if it's a small one. If you just don't want them anymore... at least take them to your LFS and donate the fish to them. Oh and one more thing. You better learn some patience pretty fast with this hobby or your not gonna be very successful in the long run.
14yroldkid
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YOU GOT ME:hilarious :hilarious :hilarious