I have just lost 4 fish in the past week. They are getting coated with something that I haven't been able to positively identify. It looks like ich at first then with a closer look the spots are more 'blurred'. Here's a few pics. Quality not so good. Whatever this stuff is, it is acting fast. It has made it to my clowns and by the looks of things they aren't going to make it either. There will be only two fish left in my tank after this, a Yellow tang and a CB. They seem to be ok but I can see the CB with a dusting of whatever this stuff is. This all started with the death of a kole tang last week. He appeared to have ich when he began to lose weight and appetite. The weight loss was fast like one to two days. Before that, the Yellow tang started pushing him into the caves of my rock...as if to keep him away from his share of the food. I was thinking the stress created ich and it eventually killed him. But from the time he got whatever he got on his body until he died was only like 3 or 4 days. He went fast.
Since then, my fish have been dropping like flies. I just lost a black cap basslet, strawberry pseudochromis, and a royal gramma. These are all housed in a 120. I don't have a hospital setup and things are happening so fast, that I just haven't been able to get one setup. I was wondering if these are flukes?
