I just got owned.

[Cody Heart]

Got a clown and anemone from coral gazers yesterday. I thought my anemone was having some issues but he's actually looking very healthy now that he's acclimated and ate half a cube of mysis shrimp.

BUT... When I was inspecting the clown yesterday he looked good, minus a few bubbles on him from the jet. I asked the dude if he had ich or if he could and he said no, he's good.
So I brought him home and didn't think much of it. This morning i was inspecting him and noticed a small white dot on his back tail fin. I'm praying its not ich. I should have made a quarrentine. I'm so flustered right now. He's my first fish an he may have ich. I'll post pictures when I get home but please let me know what's going on!
Water Params are fine, been established since i bought it, it's a small tank but it's only a temporary home till my big tank cycles. The only thing I can think it could be is ich!
Please tell me there's other things it could be?
I may buy some ich attack at work since I get a discount, but not sure if that's a good idea... Let me know!

 

[pgr11]

First don't freak out. Clowns are hardy. If this is just a temp home I would feed him food soaked with garlic and selcon. When the new tank is ready jut qt the fish before you put him in the dt. Everybody fights ich at one time or another. If you don't qt your chances are great you will get it. I have it in my tank but its kept in check with good food and low stress in the tank.

 

[Cody Heart]

Thank you, I guess I'll make my pico into a qt system... Will the ich have any ill effect on my bubble tip anemone? (He's the only other temporary resident)

 

[pgr11]

Not unless you introduce meds to the tank. If you do want to add meds just keep it in a different tank. You should do this anyway because the ich could come in on the nem if its attached to a rock. Chance is small but it could happen

 

[Cody Heart]

P.s. besides the clown, coral gazers was awesome. I LOVE both my nem and clown, and will do everything I can to make him healthy.

 

[Cody Heart]

Not unless you introduce meds to the tank. If you do want to add meds just keep it in a different tank. You should do this anyway because the ich could come in on the nem if its attached to a rock. Chance is small but it could happen

What about those all natural reef safe remedies like ich attack and stuff?

 

[Emac909]

I'm pretty sure it is ick. I also say don't freak out Clowns are hardy. Now you say your parameters are fine, but you have not indicate any numbers. What is your temperature spikes? What about your nitrate levels? I found the temperature and nitrates are the two things that affect fish the most.

 

[Cody Heart]

Temp is a little up and down, between 77-78.
Nitrates are about 40ppm

 

[Cody Heart]

But i haven't even had the fish and anemone for 24 hours yet... I mean, I'm all open ears. I'm really good with planted tanks, but reefs are a whole new domain that I'm just beginning to step into. A nem and clown in a pico was probably not the best place to start off, but I'm convinced I can pull it off. If my clown and nem make it to my big tank, I figure it'd only get easier from there out?

 

[djam]

Lower your Nitrates. I feed mine with a med soaked food, I think it was somethign like Metro+ or somethign like that. Worked great. The cleaner, more stable your water the better your fish will be in terms of its internal ability to fight Ick. I messed with the herbal junk the first time I had ick and it cost me 6 of the 7 fish I had. Clean water, feed the fish well and it should be able to make it. As I was told every tank that has fish has ick. When I do water changes a lot of the time I will do it via a slow drip, like acclimation so the changes is slow and not shocking. I use an aqua lifter to add water, then drain it out via wet skimming. Sure I drain out some of the good water, but the fish are doing great since I started doing my water changes in that manner.