How to handle ich

Hi, I added a sixline wrasse to my 40 breeder mixed reef (which has 2 oscellaris clowns and a yellow watchman goby ) 2 weeks ago and I think he may have ich. He has very faint white spots on his tail. The problem is, I'm leaving for Florida tomorrow but will have a house sitter. My ammonia, nitrate and Nitrite are 0, ph 8.4, SG 1.025. What would you do? I've never battled salt water ich.
I was thinking of setting up a quick quarantine tank today with well water(because I have a 30 gallon spare tank and don't have time to make that much water) and try to get the SG as close as I can to my other tank and have my sitter transfer him if he gets more obvious ich.
Does that sound d reasonable?

Royal Gramma Sick?

Hey Guys!

I have a royal gramma who has been acting very odd lately. She has decided to not really swim or eat for the past week. I figured since she is an older fish that maybe she was closing in on the final days of her life, so I just left her be.

Here it is a week later and yesterday I finally couldn't find her. Today I come into my classroom, and find her huddled up at the top of the tank next to the heater. She has significant tail fin loss, and not has two white splotches on one side of her body, and what looks like a gash on the other.

I don't think it is Ich (or its not like the other cases of Ich I've dealt with), and it doesn't quite seem like fin rot (but I could be wrong).

Any help is greatly appreciated in figuring out what is wrong with her!
All the other fish and corals in the tank look great, so whatever it is seems to only be isolated with her.



Thank you in advance!!

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Decembers first Friday

Good morning TRT Friends, and....HAPPY FRIDAY! A nice day ahead, dry and sunny, though the winds are still here. Thinking some Thomas's English muffins with an assortment of jellies will work with our coffee and pink milk this morning to get us out the door. Got a few boats trickling out this week, so gives us something to do.....winterizing and shrink wrapping and such. But when you look at a mountain that has to be moved, and you're only sweeping up dust at the moment, you get antsy. And it's going to get 'tight' in the yard this year.....it's all a chess game, and more fun when you got all the pieces to play when you need them to be played. But, it'll get done. Hope all have groovy things in their future, and all the best,
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White cyst on Blue Assessor

Hey guys and gals. Question for you. So I recently got a Blue Assessor from a guy. He got the fish from his distributor. He told me in advance that there was a small white cyst on its body. The warehouse had the fish for a month and it had been eating fine, the guy got it from the warehouse dropped the salinity way down and soaked its food in medications. He kept the fish for a week or so, then shipped it to me. I'v had the fish for 2 days and it looks healthy. However the fish has quite a big chunk taken out of his tail fin...my speculation that at the warehouse the fish got attacked by another fish and hence where the cyst came from...and injury...possibly being chased or something and hit a rock or something. I really dont feel like its any disease of some sort given the fact that the fish was at the warehouse for a month, with the other guy I bought it from for a week and looks like he has normal behavior and coloration in my tank. No signs of labored breathing or anything like that. The cyst does not have anything hanging from it or anything like that...not much of a bulge or anything like that.

Lighting while cycling

I am starting to cycle my first reef tank. I am using live rock that has a lot of coralline algae on it. Should I cycle the tank without light or should I put it on a minimal lighting cycle?

TRTI Thursday

The title is self explanatory.

Put a pot of coffee on. Windy at night here with a high of 42.

Got car repairs and maintenance on the radar for today.