Something is not right in my tank

[Krish]

Okay well unless my pH is still low which i doubt i have a disease in my tank. I just lost another porkfish yeterday. and i noticed that my engineer goby looks like it has a ton of white bumps on it, and one of my Clarkis clowns looks like it has dust all over its face. I just noticed this last night. What am i dealing with here?

Bummer man...Sorry to hear that Nick :doubt: Any pics?

 

[Scooterman]

Okay well unless my pH is still low which i doubt i have a disease in my tank.

To me it does sound like you have a disease, how else would your fish get bumps, etc. Do you have a QT set-up?

 

[shallowreef]

No i don't. I don't even have a tank big enough to put everyone in. All i have is my bin that i store my RO in. Its pretty much just a 55 gallon garbage can. I am so tired of dealing with this crap. I think that once everything is back to normal i am ditching the last porkfish and going back to tangs and other pacific region fish. All the fish i got from the carribean have been nothing but trouble.

I just want to get my shark and replace all the fish i lost. I wish i never tried to do this crazy idea of a tank.

 

[steve-s]

Any of the ones I kept suggesting are possibilities. Vibrio, Uronema, or Brooklynella. They all have similar symptoms. So far, you have not provided enough tangible information to say one is more likely the cause than the rest although Uronema does seem the least likely.

I would really urge you to QT these fish and begin the aldehyde treatment I originally suggested.

Are/have any other fish ever appeared with the same bumps as the goby or is this the first time?
Would you say the clowns appearance is more like a dusting, milky or like webbing?

 

[shallowreef]

Sorry i haven't been much of a help Steve. Ask me some Qs and hopefully i can answer them for ya.

I think i may have a case of ich in the tank. I noticed it on my Blue tang and the remaining porkfish was rubbing against the sand last night.

As for the clown its more like a dusting.

I have been feeding them as much as i can to keep them full and i am going to try and do a water change again this weekend. I tested my tank last night for ammo, nitri, nitra and all were at 0. I tested ph right before lights out and it was at 8.3. I am going to test Alk at lunch today.

The goby is the only fish that looks that bad.

Like i said Steve ask me Questions and i'll answer them for you. I really don't know what to tell you.

 

[shallowreef]

Just wanted to add but i don't know if this matters. I saw this little white dots on the glass in my tank and i got a magnifying glass to get a good look at it and i noticed that it s like a Stafish almost but the arms are kind of transparent? Is this a parasite?

 

[shallowreef]

Just a little bump and does anyone know what those things are that i described in my previous post? I know someone started a thread about them but i don't remeber when.

 

[shallowreef]

Bump!!!!!!

 

[Scooterman]

Ok, please don't take this wrong but start by looking back at what Steve was asking, if you give him time he will help you, he is better qualified than most & will help you but you must help him with information to be able to help you.

 

[mungus]

Hey Nick check out this link and see if these are what you are seeing. My guess would be some sort of jellyfish.

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13373

HTH

Brian

 

[steve-s]

Nick,

My recommendations' not really going to change. The fish need to be QT'd and treated with an aldehyde solution like PARAguard. Repeated dips in Formalin will help if Brooklynella but it's not as effective on Vibrio or Uronema although will definitely help. The symptoms relayed so far do not distinguish it beyond those three possible causes. Since the remedy for those three is the same, there's no reason not to proceed on that assumption. The bumps your seeing on the goby are more than likely a coincidence, unrelated to the deaths thus far.

As for the star, hydroid jelly would be the most likely suspect.

 

[shallowreef]

Okay,

Now are those things harmless to my tank? Because it seems as if they are multiplying daily.

 

[Scooterman]

Have you set-up a QT yet?

 

[shallowreef]

No i am going to have to remove my fish and store them at the LFS for the time being. He runs copper in his system. I just don't have any room for a qt. I mean i still have my 90 but i have no intentions of putting it back into service. So i am going to let them sit in copper for a month or so and let the tank run on its own so hopefully whatever is in there will die and with the fish out of my hair for a little while it will give me time to stock the tank with some corals and rework my rocks a little.

 

[Scooterman]

That may be the best solution, you may need to still medicate them though. Keep everything out 6 to 8 weeks, make sure the fish are isolated from new fish at the LFS otherwise your wasting time.

 

[shallowreef]

Do you mean in a seperate system or just not housed in a tank with new fish?

I'm pretty sure that they will be in a seperate tank that runs off the main system that he keeps his fish in.

 

[Scooterman]

If these fish use water that is used throughout other tanks with other fish then they all will get sick unless treated in isolation as in QT no exceptions your wasting time otherwise. Also I don't think copper will help them if it is bacterial, so treatment as Steve said would be required.

 

[shallowreef]

Well i'm kind of out of options. Unless i turn my resevoir into a temporary QT and run hypo in that. But i think thats a really bad idea. What a mess this is turning out to be. Sure am learning my lesson on this one.

 

[Scooterman]

Yea it isn't easy, I hope you stick it out & things turn around. You may need more than hypo also look at steves last post. Put them in QT, however you do it, it will work but you got to figure out how you isolate them but do it.

 

[shallowreef]

I assume this is a type of disease that just won't run itself out?