A pair of my firefish developed white bumps( need help)

[Armaghanyan]

[OPtasia]

Probably marine velvet or ich. Both are caused by parasitic dinoflagillates and the treatment for both is the same.

 

If you have a reef tank with live corals and inverts like crabs and shrimp, you'll need to move your fish to a quarantine tank for treatment. Most LFS's will have copper based medications that you can pick up. Copper is toxic to inverts.

 

Step 1: Put the sick fish in a quarantine tank.

Step 2: Bump up the heat to 80 degrees f.

Step 3: Remove any chemical filter media (carbon, purigen, etc.)

Step 4: Dose with medication per instructions.

Step 5: Install a UV sterilizer on the main display tank and run it 24/7 for a few weeks to break the free swimming part of the infection cycle.

Step 6: Hope for the best.

[JustinM]

That looks like flukes. Try a freshwater dip for a minimum of 3 minutes and see if anything falls off during the dip. If so, a simple prazipro treatment will fix this up:)

[Armaghanyan]

On 15.01.2018 at 5:55 PM, OPtasia said:

Probably marine velvet or ich. Both are caused by parasitic dinoflagillates and the treatment for both is the same.

 

If you have a reef tank with live corals and inverts like crabs and shrimp, you'll need to move your fish to a quarantine tank for treatment. Most LFS's will have copper based medications that you can pick up. Copper is toxic to inverts.

 

Step 1: Put the sick fish in a quarantine tank.

Step 2: Bump up the heat to 80 degrees f.

Step 3: Remove any chemical filter media (carbon, purigen, etc.)

Step 4: Dose with medication per instructions.

Step 5: Install a UV sterilizer on the main display tank and run it 24/7 for a few weeks to break the free swimming part of the infection cycle.

Step 6: Hope for the best.

I tried to catch them, and put them in the quarantine tank, but it very hard since i have lot of rock and corals in my display, and they hide well,,, is there any product that i can use in the tank?

 

[Armaghanyan]

The garlic took care of everything,,, my fish look healthy, blasts are gone.

 

[Clown79]

If it's velvet garlic won't work. You have a very short time span for treatment because velvet kills quickly 24-48hrs after the first sign appears.

 

Your tank needs to go fllow 8 weeks with velvet or ich.

[Armaghanyan]

18 hours ago, Clown79 said:

If it's velvet garlic won't work. You have a very short time span for treatment because velvet kills quickly 24-48hrs after the first sign appears.

 

Your tank needs to go fllow 8 weeks with velvet or ich.

i dont think its velvet either,,, still dont know what it is, but i just fed them garlic for 4 days, and still feeding occasionally, and the fish look good.

[Clown79]

If it's ich, the cyst drops after a few days, a fish can look completely normal but it's still there.

[Paulife]

Hello,

I have a similiar looking thing on my purply firesfish, just want to know if the spots came back or are your fish okay now?

[Tired]

Post pics. Garlic isn't going to cure them. Some of the possible diseases will kill them.