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Just recently hes been breathing rapidly and presenting himself numerous times to the neon goby for cleanings. Should I freshwater dip him or wait until other classic ich signs emerge?

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Just recently hes been breathing rapidly and presenting himself numerous times to the neon goby for cleanings. Should I freshwater dip him or wait until other classic ich signs emerge?

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I have just added a coral beauty and yellow watchman goby after a 4 week qt (the cb had ich in qt and I treated with hyposalinity) tank 100 gallons 8.2 pH ammonia, trite and trate 0 salinity 1.024 Thanks kindly, Angela Re: weird butterfly behavior Thanks for the quick reply Anthony. The butterfly was in QT for 5 weeks before introducing him into the main tank. He, like all of my fish, got ich immediately in the QT and I treated him with hyposalinity (1.009) for 2.5 weeks in a bare-bottomed tank then raised salinity slowly over the next 2 weeks. He was fine up until the weird addled behavior started a month after in