Fish Desperately Need HELP!!!

[Dezzy]

I am writing for my mother. She has a 75 gallon that has been set up for 7 years. She just added a Pink Trigger to her reef and he has brought disease to the tank! He is covered in, what looks like ich. He also has white stripes, looks like scratches on him. In the morning they looks pink but then turn white. Now the dragon goby is covered in ick, the Yellow tang has a cloudy eye and the lawnmover blenny had spots on his eyes too!!! Her mandarin looks OK, the ocellaris looks OK, fox face looks good. What can we do??? They just lowered the salinity and that is not helping. They dropped it to .019 instead of .021. What else can you do in a REEF tank???

 

[Fishieness]

wow... that is quite the epademic.... it sounds like ich, bacterial, and maybe even fungal infections. do you have any pictures of the fish?
your best bet is to probably take all the fish out and put them in a few different hospital tanks. treat one with hyposalinity (if you dont know what this is, jsut ask and ill eleborate more, but it is dropping the salinity much more than .002) and with a antibacterial that you can find at your LFS for fish with ich and bacterial infections (use an antifungal here too if any of the fish have fungus also, and do the same thing in another tank without the hypo for any fish that do not have ich. make sure to monitor them really really closely to make sure that they are not stressed out. if you can, you might even want to treat each fish for one problem at a time to prevent the possible stress that comes along with haveing a fish in so many different medications. that is probably your best bet, but i know that many tanks are not always availible.
good luck
and pictures to recomend medications will also help out i'm sure

 

[BadRoma1]

first of, crank the heat up to 82-84F. what else is in the tank? because any good med you'll use will kill everything in the tank but fish. hospital tank is recomended. also you can't drop salinity too fast. one thing you must know is that if you see all the stuff on the fish it's mostlikely too late for the fish. now that we got that out of the way, the best med that i ever used and would save most or all of your fish is made by Aquatronics and calls Quinsulex. Aquatronics was out for a while but now they are back. the very bad thing about finding this med is that barely anybody carries it because LFS stores started carrying other stuff since Aquatronics was out of business for a while. this is the only med that ever worked for me and would help with the problems and secondary infections that your fish has. hyporsalinity is another way, but you must find out how to do it, look it up on the internet. good luck!

 

[Dezzy]

Sad ... SAD day

OK...almost ALL of my mother's fish are dead. She lost her 8 year old yellow tang yesterday. All she has living at the moment is 2 neon gobies, 2 ocellarus, and a fox face. They all look like hell exept for the neons. Here is a poor view of what the worse clown looks like.
http://www.misfitsrehab.com/fish.htm
How long after this clear should she wait before trying fish again. She almost scrapped her 75 reef because of this. After having it for 8 years and watching them all die one by one was devistating. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Freddybnj_2004]

OK...almost ALL of my mother's fish are dead. She lost her 8 year old yellow tang yesterday. All she has living at the moment is 2 neon gobies, 2 ocellarus, and a fox face. They all look like hell exept for the neons. Here is a poor view of what the worse clown looks like.
http://www.misfitsrehab.com/fish.htm
How long after this clear should she wait before trying fish again. She almost scrapped her 75 reef because of this. After having it for 8 years and watching them all die one by one was devistating. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi, sorry I don't have any answers to help you since I'm new to this hobby but trust me when I tell you I know what she's going through... I lost almost 200 fish and even though they were new fish... I did lose my fish from my upstairs tank that I had for a year plus and had grown fond of... but now with this new reef tank up and running... I've never been happier... Please pass this on to her and assure her she'll be watching her tank with a big smile on her face in no time... ! Good Luck!

 

[5xevy]

Do you have a hospital tank? If so, I'd put the remaining in there ASAP.

Dropping the salinity to 1.019 won't do anything. To be effective, it has to go down to at least 1.009/1.008 and stay that way for about a month. This isn't good for invertebrates as they can't handle it and it can kill some of the "good" bacteria within the live rock as well.

Your absolute best bet is to put them in a separate tank and treat them there.

I'm really sorry this is happening to you.