what is on my fish?

[semifan1]

ok I did a 15% water change today 7/12 after a few hours I noticed these white spots on my fish all over my flame angles and neon gobies

I used scripps has been sitting in my garage for about 2 weeks in the shade
90g tall
test where good as of friday have yet to test since I just did a water change

[SDguy]

Is it ich?

[semifan1]

I don't know I was hoping somebody could look at the pics and tell me

[semifan1]

bump for the AM

[Techknowledgy]

It may be ick. Are your fish scratching? You might consider dosing them with the Garlic Guard Cocktail. We all get it at one time or another.

[Direct Marine]

looks like ick to me, just let it ride and the fish should recover in time (few days)

-Jerehmy

[semifan1]

no they are acting normal is there anything I can do in main tank first or must I put them in QT first to do this.

looks like I will be taking all my LR down to catch them

[Direct Marine]

catching them and throwing them in a QT tank will stress them more, looks like its a mild case from the pics. A healthy fish should be able to fight o a little ick with no problems

IMHO I would give it a week or so and see what happens before you go and tear down your tank

-Jerehmy

[semifan1]

catching them and throwing them in a QT tank will stress them more, looks like its a mild case from the pics. A healthy fish should be able to fight o a little ick with no problems

IMHO I would give it a week or so and see what happens before you go and tear down your tank

-Jerehmy

Thanks for the advice makes me feel better my fish are healthy and eat like there is no tomorrow hopefully they battle through it.

[BigAir]

DM is right, but as listed above you camn also feed the coctail that is listed on the garlic guard bottle to help increase the immune system.

[dj9264]

Looks more like mild Lymphocystis on the fin edge. It would show symptoms of rubbing with Cryptocaryon.

Treatment is of no use. Just feed well. And a water change can't hurt.

[467echo]

Its too bad that cleaner goby can't clean himself. Do you have ant pics of the flame angel? It might be easier to tell if its ick. JMO

[semifan1]

Its too bad that cleaner goby can't clean himself. Do you have ant pics of the flame angel? It might be easier to tell if its ick. JMO
i can't see it on any fish anymore I don't know what happened maybe it was just something from the water change but does not seem to be there now.

[semifan1]

just in case has anybody tried one of those treatments where you put it into the entire tank that is reef safe? or would they have to be QT to fully rid them of ick.

I ask this cause I noticed the white spots are back on them but I will wait a week to see what happens

[Techknowledgy]

The Garlic Guard cocktail works. If you soak freeze dried brine or mysis or plankton in the meds, and feed only what the fish will eat in a few minutes. It does nothing to the tank, or the chemistry. I just got a copperband butterfly. He is quite healthy, but when I got him, after the QT (two days...... couldn't wait) I started dosing the whole tank with the meds. I will do this for 5 days. It is just a precaution, but an ounce of prevention and all that. Healthy fat fish are you best defense against any disease. I would not wait, worst case scenario, all of your fish and your system are infected, best case scenario, it goes away in 2-4 days altogether.

[semifan1]

I already started feeding them the garlic guard in there food.
I was just wondering besides that is there anything else that can be done in the mean time.

Besides ripping my tank apart to QT all the fish thats why I was asking about the medication that was reef safe and supposed to kill the ick in the whole tank.

[Techknowledgy]

Semi- check out the link here:
http://www.sdreefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34867&highlight=cocktail

[semifan1]

I was reading that before who makes focus?

[Techknowledgy]

SeaChem- Same for all three.