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I’m treating my regal tang saltwater fish for columnaris. The bottle says use gel-tek as the only product offered to the fish when fed. My fish are picky and don’t even know that they are suppossed to eat the gel so, can I just use it as a food soak instead? Also wanted to know if anybody tried this with good results.

We have a 55 gallon saltwater aquarium. We started out with some live rock (not sure how much is there..ask my husband lol). So we added a Yellow Tang as our first fish. That was around January and he is still doing great. Then we got a Coral Beauty angel fish, six snails and a cleaner shrimp. They were doing fine (three snails did die from being old but no biggie). Then we bought a Royal Wrasse, a Fire Clownfish and a Pink Cucumber.
They were doing fine. Until my husband told me he got the Royal out of a tank that had a sick fish in it. Well, the Fire Clown ended up stressing out the royal (chasing it and nipping at him). The royal ended up with ick and died quickly before we even noticed. Then shortly after, the coral beauty died also. Everything else is still doing great. Then weeks later we got a new fish (not sure what kind), he died the next day! The other day, we bought a Pink Anthias square fish, a serpent starfish, and more snails……..
…this morning (we bought them Monday), I saw the pink anthias dead. Everything else in the tank is fine.

ANYONE know what is wrong??? If that first fish that died (royal gramma is what it was actually) had ich or something like that, should we have treated the tank. But even if that is so why haven’t the others died too? they are doing well so I don’t get it. My husband is going to be so bummed out about that when he gets home from work today
LOL yes they are saltwater fish.