ick imanant

my prior estimates wer wrong its entire tail has been bitten off not just nipped. none of the other fish are going after it ive been staring at it for about 5 hrs now.

 

If the tail is gone One of the other fish is biting it off!!!! It may only be at night. Fish do not just lose their tails!! Sometimes aggression does not start until fish are older (sexual maturity) You really need to find out who is doing it, or you will lose that fish!

 

all the fish are very young i dont think any of them are near sexual maturity. mabe the purple dottyback we are not sure of its age.but we will be keeping an eye on the tank . anything we can do to speed up the healing ? she is putting stress coat in the water.

 

My tank is only 2 months old, I was lucky enough to notice there was a killer in my tank before putting livestock in; this was the night before I went to buy some fish. It was/is a gorilla crab. He is very elusive. I posted here about him. I have not seen him since I tried to kill him, but one of my fish has what looks like a small nip off of his bottom fin. I have had no casulties so I am hoping he died inside the rock when I doused hot water, vinegar and freshwater down the hole where I saw him go. So what I am saying is you may have a hitchhiker living in your rock that has not shown hiself to you. I saw him twice; the initial sighting and the night I tried killing him.

 

when you guys say feed garlic, do u mean regular fresh garlic from the store? chop up small pieces and feed?

 

soak the food for about half an hour or so in garlic extract..i use the Kent Garlic Xtreme..but you can also get it at a grocery store for much cheaper

 

just an update the flasher wrase has died no ick though i guess thats a good thing :/

 

add stresscoat by API at 3x the dose amount will help repair the fin and will be a preventitive measure to any ich breakout.

 

I really really really suggest taking the damsels back to yer lfs. Its gunna b very hard to add anything in there w them. They are notorious nippers, very aggressive, and very territorial. Nasty creatures really.I would b willing to bet my last 27 dollars (I went coral shoppin this weekend) that they're the culpret...