Whitespot no qt

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I noticed this morning 2 of my 3 fish have whitespot there's no way I can catch 2 of them as it's packed with rock and it's puttied together as 1 huge piece so I can't even take it out. IV been trying all morning with no luck so qt isn't a option. Is there anything I can add to my display tank which is reef safe as I have corals and inverts. Or is just a case of feeding garlic infused food and hoping for the best

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Pictures?

 

[bombilate]

They aren't showing up on pics I only noticed it under daylight when my lights were off. There swimming into the lr to scratch but can't notice much if anything on 2 but 1 clown looks pretty bad it looks like velvet the dusty flakey look but I'm sure it's not that as I did notice he didn't look right and was really skinny when I added him about 4 weeks ago and the lfs confirmed they had whitespot around then too when I called today. Il try get some photos

 

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Picture

 

[Tamberav]

Fish trap can work wonders

 

[bombilate]

Fish trap can work wonders

By the time I get one delivered and setup qt it's probably to late id imagine I have nothing at all so would have to buy everything all over again. Surely must be something reef safe I can dose

 

[exnisstech]

Make an inverted bottle trap. Also hitting them with a bright light while they are sleeping gives you a few seconds of them freezing sort of like a deer in the headlights.
Garlic is useless. I may be helpful getting finicky fish to eat but has no medicinal value to our fish.
When was the last time you added a new fish? IME velvet kills quickly.

inverted bottle fish trap - Google Search

 

[Tamberav]

By the time I get one delivered and setup qt it's probably to late id imagine I have nothing at all so would have to buy everything all over again. Surely must be something reef safe I can dose

If only there was a reef safe method that actually worked well but corals are much more sensitive than parasites. It takes a lot of copper to kill the parasites after all and only works in 1 stage of them.

You can try polyp lab or ruby reef rally or a very large expensive oversized UV with slower flow through it and hopes that it lowers the # of parasites enough that the fish can fight it off on their own.

 

[bombilate]

Last fish was added about a month ago so I think it's ich. I can try setup qt but what cooper etc do I use I'm in the UK

 

[Tamberav]

Last fish was added about a month ago so I think it's ich. I can try setup qt but what cooper etc do I use I'm in the UK

I am not familar with what is available there but someone may know from #fishmedic

Hypo also treats ich and flukes (but not velvet).

I can't tell from the photo what your fish have, copper does not treat brook but would treat ich and velvet. Brook often looks like excess slimes/sheets on the fish/clowns. Velvet would have rapid breathing.

With it being a month, I would think ich if you are seeing white spots that change positions as the infection comes and goes.

 

[bombilate]

How does hypo work just lower salinity over a few weeks?

 

[Sharkbait19]

With hyposalinity, you drop the tank’s salinity to 1.009 and hold it for 30 days after the last spot disappears. This will kill any inverts, but fish handle it fine.

 

[Tamberav]

How does hypo work just lower salinity over a few weeks?

I lowered it from 1.026 to 1.009 in 48 hours. Fish with an active infection probably don't have a few weeks.

Not reef safe ofc.

 

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Ah I might try this then I just found a old tank at my parents so just need a heater. Can I use my tank water and add to so it's 1.009 as I'm guessing if I use new batch it's gonna cycle all over again and the fish will die from ammonia

 

[Tamberav]

You can use tank water but water does not hold much for bacteria, so it won't help much for cycling. If you have media or something, that would help.

I did get some ammonia regardless as the bacteria took a hit/slowed down from the hypo and that was with 100 lbs of rock (new tank so I didn't have worms or corals or die off other than algae). Took a week for it to clear up. It never got above 0.25 for me.

Water changes for ammonia.

 

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Managed to get some pictures

 

[Sharkbait19]

Definitely ich - copper is the ideal treatment, but hypo will work.

 

[Should I]

where abouts in the UK did you buy the fish so i know to avoid that place

 

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where abouts in the UK did you buy the fish so i know to avoid that place

Kent literally no one goes there for marines but there's no other local shop

 

[Should I]

Kent literally no one goes there for marines but there's no other local shop

why don't you order online from more reputable stores i do never had any problems if you don't want to QT try https://visionaquatics.co.uk/