Need Help Quick!

[Reefer Ron]

Need Help Quick!All my fish now look cloudy white, and starting to get little black spots. Did a water change 25% and then added Kick Ick accroding to lable, Saturday. :sad

Parameters: Temp-77.9*
PH- 8.0
Sal- 1.022
Alk- 3.5
Nitri- 0
Nitra- 5
Phos- .2
Free Ammonia- 0
Total Ammonia- 0

[FloridaBoy]

I feel your pain my friend.
Not familiar with your system or that product, but if it's not copper it will probably not help your fish. The white and black spots are likely feeding cryptocaryon; you have two options: 1). move the fish to a quarantine tank or a dealers sick tank and deal with it there, and let your tank run with no fish for at least 3 weeks to starve the remaining parasites which are now infested in your sand and water.
OR 2). remove the inverts to a safe tank and treat the display with copper.
You can remove some of the copper after fish are cured, but it may never be safe for sensitive inverts again if the copper goes into the substrate. Do not waste time with reef safe meds; you will lose your fish. Both of these options have pros and cons but you must choose one or lose your fish. Others may suggest everything from garlic to freshwater dips, but in my experience you need to choose option 1 or 2, then practice better quarantine protocol when mixing fish and inverts. Many have learned the hard way that mixing fish/inverts requires careful attention to this problem.

[Reefer Ron]

Thanks for the honest but sad truth. My make up water (RO/DI) with what was left of a five gallon bucket of Reef Crystals salt, and I think I got a hold of some bad salt: the 32gal plastic trash can with lid and pump running in it turned brown and smelled like cat urine! I hope I can save these fish. They will be hard to catch unless I tear it down! I do have a 135g no holes in it that I could use. With no stickers on the bottom of the tank how can I find out if the glass is tempered or not? Besides drilling it! ha ha Any advise is welcome! I have made my mind up not to put my new 268g empty tank in a combined system! I'm in the process of plumbing it now. To the basement. Any suggestoons! THANKS IN ADVANCE!

[skippy2]

I would think if there is no sticker on your tank then it is not tempered. Just a guess though.