Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse - peeling skin?

My wrasse appears to be shedding skin on one side towards the back half of his body. It looks exactly like when you have a sunburn and your skin has turned white and started peeling away. Any ideas? Nothing I find online really sounds right. He had been hovering near the surface some today, and staying hidden a lot, but I saw him eat this morning when I fed the tank. I just put some prime reef flakes in and he didn't come out for it though. Of course, he's in the main tank and my hospital tank is occupied with a couple of fish that were in my nano I'm treating for Ich. I haven't shared equipment and the other sick fish were never in the big tank the wrasse is in. I've had him for a week and he's been eating and active until today. Go ahead, lemme have it. :nono::headshake2:

ETA: okay, got a closer look at him just now, he does have some white spots on his back above where the peeling is. He's also peeling some on the other side. Is this Ich? Or could it be something else with the peeling? IF I can catch him, can I just drop him into the hospital with the other 2? I'm doing hyposalinity in it with copper.

Please go easy on me. I'm near tears now. First I had a bad coral swap the other day and I've been dealing with ich in my nano fish already and now this....

haven't had time to do any tests today, but my Ca and kH are always on the high side. I think kH was 12 the last time I tested it, but that's been a couple weeks. Anyway, I had to go hunting in my tank this morning for a ricordea that had blown off a rock it was on last night. I noticed that the wrasse was just sitting on the bottom so I actually was able to catch him - wayyy too easily - and moved him into the hospital tank. I don't have another tank to set up a separate one, so that's the best I can do right now. He's been laying on his side breathing fast all day. I hope he makes it. I looked up pictures and descriptions of Brooklynella and it sortof fits, but not really because it doesn't appear to have covered his gills. Plus he has the white specs which look like ich.

Amazingly enough, the other two fish in their are doing better today. Not sure if I should go ahead and move them back into the nano or leave them be. I'm trying to let it run fallow for a month to make sure all the ich is gone.

Anyway, lesson learned. The hard way. :wall: Won't be getting any new fish for a while and I'm looking up the things I need to do to new corals before introducing them, but probably won't be getting anything new at all for a while anyway. Except light bulbs.

poor lil guy died last night. I probably doomed him when I removed him from the main tank, but I was too worried about leaving him there and getting all my other fish sick. I've had most of them since February and March now and they're all so happy and healthy, I just didn't want to risk it.

Annette
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