Fish Sick! Please Help?

[Noober]

Ok i had a tang die this morning while i was at work. On my way to work it was alive but had ich looking spots on its body. It also had what looked like some kinda food stuck in its teeth but it might have been some fungus or something. It would flow around in the water. Anyway its loged in some unknown place behind the rocks now getting eaten by crabs and snails and I couldnt get to it without tareing everything down, but my ammonia levels are fine.

My copperband butterfly has some wierd looking white blobs on its left and right fin, none anywhere else on its body. Does anyone know what this might be? They havnt got any worse from yesterday to today.

[Kyle46N]

Sounds like you have a serious problem. If the blobs are large, I would think some sort of fungus, but smaller white spots are ich. Quarantine is your best bet, but I know it can be a pain getting the fish out of the reef. I eradicated ich from my reef a couple of years ago by hyposalinity in a quarantine tank. It worked. But its work. Do you have any pics. Those would help some of the experts here figure it out.

[SoLiD]

It might be Cotton Mouth Fungus. It's A Real Bad One!!!

[Texreefer]

do a search for Lymphocystis (sp?)

[Noober]

i tried hard to get it with my cam, my copperband dosnt want to stay still for very long at all so its hard to get a closeup. It happend right after i got some new fish dang it. I lost a basset and a coral beauty angel. I think thoes were because if agressiveness in other fish though. The sailfin might have been stressed due to losing its dominance as well. And it got really sick with ich, it looked horrible. My rocks are just showing some advanced coraline growth and this really sucks that its happening now. Any chance if i leave it alone that the fish will fight it off. its not a real big blob, about twice the size of an ich spot, and he hasnt gotten any extra on his fins since. The coral beauty had one spot on its side where the scales got knocked off, i guess my two spot bristletooth tang was warring with him behind the rocks for all the hidden lair's in the tank. the angel lost. shame it was such a pretty fish. Anyway let me know, as soon as i get some time I will setup my fifty gallon tank or mabe the fourty gallon breeder as a quarintine tank, and hopefully get everything in the main tank cleaned out. Can I treat the display tank if i take all the coral out without killing all the coraline algae?Then change my display tank water and re add the coral afterwords. It sucks cause I have so many snails and crabs and shrimp and star fish and cucumbers and such. I'd never be able to catch/find them all. Any good advice?

[Noober]

and tex, thank god it dosnt look big like that, that stuff looks horrible!

[Texreefer]

If you ever want to house corals in your main tank, i would not treat anything in there

[Kyle46N]

If it is ich, you could remove all the fish and leave the display fishless. The ich will die off during its reproductive cylce without any fish as a host. Fungus....I don't know.

[jrodriguez]

if it is ick you can also raise the water temperature the ick doesnt survive in warmer water but do it gradually i have raised the water in my 29 once up to about 84 and the ick died off and everything was fine after that no problems with fish or corals