Effin Ich!

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by BlueTang<3

There are a lot of possibilities,

Where did you buy your fish from?
Placing the coral in the tank stressed the fish
The fish are fighting with each other.

What fish of yours is showing ich? What are you feeding, hows your water quality?

all but 2 of the fish were transfered from my 55 gallon tank 2 weeks ago. the 2 new fish i bought were from big als (and ironically they're not showing signs of ich)

i placed the coral in the top 6" of the tank, my hand was in there literally 5 seconds.

none of the fish have been fighting, they've gotten along in the old smaller tank and in this one too.

fish showing signs of ich:

Clown tang(the most, was extremely active until last night, now he's hiding in one spot only coming out to eat)

Harlequin spotted sweetlips (showing spots on front of body and on eyes, acting completely normal, eating like crazy as usual)

Foxface rabbitfish (showing maybe 10 white spots, eating and acting normally, all yellow, doesnt seem to be stressed)



fish that seem to be showing no symptoms : copperband butterfly, 2 clowns, algae blenny and coral beauty


Im feeding a mixture of mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, formula 2 pellets, NLS pellets.

what do you mean water quality? water is clear, skimmer is pulling out dark green skimmate, ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0 and nitrate below 5ppm