Sick Fish?

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speedykeys

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I have never had a fish with this problem in the past 2 years I've had this aquarium, but from what I've read on this forum I believe this fish might have ick? A few days ago I noticed the top fin looked like it had a small hole in it, then today I noticed the bottom one had it as well. Started thinking this might also be fin rot but then when I was taking these pics a few minutes ago I noticed a big white spot on his belly. He seems to act and eat normal, but I've read about a lot of people who would qt their fish in this case, only I have no qt tank. Do you guys think I should keep him and try and treat whatever this is or bring him back to the store and let them try and take care of him? I really don't want my other 2 fish to get this sickness. Btw I've had this fish and the other 2 (long nosed hawk and clown) for a long time and haven't added a new fish in quite some time, how do you think this fish could have gotten this sickness? Thanks for any advice/help.

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The fish doesn't look like it has Ich(crypt) to me. Crypt looks like the fish has been rolled in salt. Little grains! These are not like that from what I can tell in the picture. I would look at some different things what are all of your test results? Also Temp salinity and flow? What are you feeding (detailed please)?
 
Sg-1.025, Nitrate-10, Nitrite-0, Phosphate-0, Mg-1300, Ca-400, Alk-10, pH-8.3, Ammonia- 0, Temp always 78-79 degrees, Feed them small amount of mysis once a day, the only additives I've been using in the water is Kent Marine Liquid Reactor to raise Ca, Mag and Alk (maybe once every week and a half, when I do my water changes), and I use Reef Solution every day (2.5 mL, recommended dose). For the flow I have a Rio 1400 for return and a Hydro Koralia nano power head behind the rocks for some flow back there. It's a 24g nano tank.
 
Unfortunately, I would have to say that this is probably a symptom of poor feeding/lack of nutrition. I would get some different types of foods and mix it up a bit. Always feeding the same thing generally doesn't work in our home aquariums. Break it up and mix it up a bit. I use myisis, brine, omivore frozen something or another, formula one and formula two pellets, algae on a clip, some other pellet i cant remember the name of, reef bugs once a week, phytoplankton once a week, and coral vibrance once a week. I never feed the same thing two days in a row. The lack of proper nutrition can lead to color loss and disease/illness in fish. FYI I am not saying to feed more, just to feed different.
 
Thanks for the advice, tomrrow i'll take your list of foods and see if I can get a few of them and I'll start mixing it up.
 
Well I just wanted to update this and say that over the past 2 weeks I've been soaking the frozen mysis in GVH fish food soak and the goby seems to have fully recovered. I'm also mixing in some flake food every once and a while but the fish seem to mainly like the mysis soaked in the garlic stuff. Thanks again for all the advice.
 
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