[Captainhemo]

Hi bulletsworld

I did have some of the symptoms you mention ( if you go back to my original postas in the thread " help, damsels not doing well' I basically documented everything, even near the start of this thread I noted most of it.

It came on very quick came home one night and the one fish was very aple, almost like she had lost her pigment. Must have been very stressed over something, original infrection maybe ?
After that, she definately go her colro bacck but was not herself at all. She swam erratically, rubberd against rcoks, " hovered " pratially on her side , like on an angle instead of vertically in the water etc. The whie spots showed up qucikly after that, tgetingworse each day ande ven getting some on her eyes. Soon afterwards the samller fish started showing similar symtoms. Both fish continued eating well until the eve before they died, it was really a hard thing to watch and I felt so bad that I couldnt/ didnt help them. By the final day, they had a lot of white spots on them , basically covered looking much like dust from abit of a distance. Up close you could see all the individual white dots. It was 5 days from first sigen to the end.

Now being that these were my fist fish ever, ther possibly may have been some white spots earlier and maybe I just didnt notice. However, there was no change in their behaviour until that first day when the larger fish turned very pale for about 12 hrs. I watched the fish's behaviour very clse which is whyb I know ther ewas no change until that day. Every day , I would spend some time up close to the glass making visuall contact with them, they really seemed to enjoy " visiting". Once they started to get sick, this changed quite a bit and it took some work to get them to come up close
It was rally fustrating especially when I had alredy had them for just over 3 weeks with out any problems, then all the sudden , boom.

I definately plan on keeping the tank without any fish for at least 6 weeks, maybe even 8 . I am also gonna pick up a samll 10 gal tank to use as a q-tank from now on. Do you all q tank everythign you add including rock and coral ? I guess you must or it really wouldnt be worth doing it with the fish would it ?

Everything else in the tank seems fine, al lthe crabs sanils etc are fine still. Chemistry is normal and temp is 78 as always Like I mentioned , ppl from which I purchased all my stuff will be back this week so I can contact them and see if anything showed up in any of thier tanks. I'll be really confused if nothing shwoed up there, that wouldnt make much sense