All my fishes are getting sick

[samksy]

Very strange.....all my fishes are getting sick for no reason. I have no idea what's happening. Their eyes are getting cloudy and body is full of white dots. All my corals are fine. My sps are open up. Checked the water parameter. Powerheads are working fine, no electricity leaking. Does anyone have any idea what can cause fish to be stress out and not corals. Hippo, yellow tang, two clown fishes are dying.

salinity 1.024
temp 81
alk 8.0
cal 440

 

[Craig]

Sounds like ich

 

[NYreefNoob]

sick fish

ick ? water temp or salinity ?

 

[ireefny]

yup.......ich

 

[manyfish]

ich to me,watch you temp,the weather change.daytime 82to87, night 72to76.
fall is coming weather change up and down

 

[samksy]

ich to me,watch you temp,the weather change.daytime 82to87, night 72to76.
fall is coming weather change up and down

I don't have heater in my tank since it is summer...but you might be right on target. My heater is going back into the tank.

Guys, thanks for the input.

 

[pecan2phat]

Ummm, might be a bit late for that plus putting a heater in will not help alleviate the parasite.

 

[Dace]

OD with garlic in the food for as long as it may take to get them healthy again. i use kent garlic extract

 

[Bob 1000]

Sounds like you might be going through a little cycle...Did you just add a couple of fish to a tank smaller than a 125???

 

[Awibrandy]

Don't understand why no one has said it yet. Get the fish out of the tank, and into a hospital tank. They need to be medicated. I tried the garlic OD, and hypo salinity last February I lost 90% of the fish. I believe that had I medicated them they would have survived.

 

[Bob 1000]

Don't understand why no one has said it yet. Get the fish out of the tank, and into a hospital tank. They need to be medicated. I tried the garlic OD, and hypo salinity last February I lost 90% of the fish. I believe that had I medicated them they would have survived.

Good call...

 

[ECFENCING]

Yes. Please get them out of the tank if you suspect ich. I just lost a hippo and hope that you don't lose any fish.

I did the same thing as you Sam. I pulled my heater this summer. Will never make that mistake again. You think temp may fluctuate a little but I think a heater without a ranco or some sort of controller is a big mistake.

Hope your fish get better.

E

 

[marrone]

Temp swings from pulling the heater isn't going to give you ich, it already has to be in the tank for that to happen.

 

[ECFENCING]

Good point but it certainly doesn't help to have temp swings which can cause an outbreak if already in your system.

 

[Dace]

Don't understand why no one has said it yet. Get the fish out of the tank, and into a hospital tank. They need to be medicated. I tried the garlic OD, and hypo salinity last February I lost 90% of the fish. I believe that had I medicated them they would have survived.

This true awilda, But I honestly would never do this. A bust my Butt trying to make it a habit to keep the best husbandry possible so all my tanks inhabitants can live good healthy lives, but i will not under any circumstances tare down my tank to get fish to a hospital tank. In my tank it's too much work and not worth the effort so i can't recommend this to anyone. The only recommendation i can give is to make sure your on top of your tank so this won't happen.

 

[Awibrandy]

Absolutely agree David! But once the illness is present there is not much choice in the matter, and if he doesn't care that the fish die then by all means do nothing. But if he does care and wants to give these poor fish a chance then he needs to get them out into a hospital tank.
By the way sometimes even with the best water, and best husbandry bad things still happen.
My February episode was do to one fish coming into the fowlr with ich from a lfs, and not QT. Laziness pay back.lol Funny now, not so funny then.