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Hello, so when it rains it pours, my tank missed a WC because my wife went into labor and we were gone for a week, in that time I had a big algae bloom (another thread) I've been fighting to get it cleaned up and now I wake up to one of my clowns looking like the attached.

Diagnosis? Treatment plans?

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That looks like brook right off the bat. Can I ask a few questions? How long have you had the clown? Any new additions to the tank in the last month or so, even corals and inverts? Is he breathing heavily, eating, acting lethargic?
 
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I've had the clown 3 or 4 months, new additions are limited to a beefed up cuc (snails, hermits and conch) to help keep the algae bloom manageable, he seems to breath okay..I have not fed him today but ate fine yesterday.
 

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do you have any anemones?
 

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I was able to source ich x, what concentration should be used for the dip?

Also, for how long?

Thanks.
 
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I was able to source ich x, what concentration should be used for the dip?

Also, for how long?

Thanks.

I've never used that particular product for this, but you can follow the directions on the bottle and run the dip for 45 minutes to an hour. Aerate heavily the entire time.
 
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So the clown seems healed or mostly healed but now I'm seeing a little white on my other clown and my cardinal is having trouble swimming...My firefish and royal gamma are also missing (have been hiding but haven't come out in over 24hrs)

Is this actually ich?
 
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Update...My cuc is eating my cardinal :-/ it was acting normal until just this am when I checked on them.

I assume the purple firefish and the royal gamma went the way of the Banggai cardinal...

They were hiding more than normal but I thought that was due to lights out I had done to help kill off algae..There was no visible white on them.
 
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It seems you dipped using Ich-X. But did you return the fish to the same tank following the dip? If so, they likely just got reinfected. They need to be dipped and then placed into a sterile QT.
 
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I'm a noob with no QT, I am going out to buy what's needed for an emergency QT now.

I simply dipped the one fish that was sick and placed him back in the tank.
 

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PVC Pipes for hiding to reduce stress. HOB filter with foam only. DO NOT put rock or sand in the QT. I would locate a medicine with formalin in it as that is the best way to kill brook. Get an ammonia alert badge as well. Your tank will have to go fishless for 6 weeks to starve the out the parasite :/
 
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Is it safe to use my seneye to monitor the Qt and move it back after?
 
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Okay, I feel really dumb..The royal gamma and firefish came out of the woodwork while I was trying to catch the other fish..So I'm only down one fish.

I guess just dip everyone and qt anyway?

Should I dip or just treat in the Qt if I have alot of aeration in my qt setup?
 
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