Hello, I have some questions regarding what I believe is either brook or velvet.
I've lost 5 out of 9 fish so far. And that happened in a 7 day period. It's been two days since the last death, and I'm working on starting a QT as soon as possible.
Symptoms have been: occasional scratching on rocks, occasional head shaking, a couple small white dots on body and fins a couple weeks ago, some fish swimming in flow (some of my wrasses seemed to have always done this on occasion though). The more serious symptoms have been: before my female clown died she was covered in a white/creamy film, fin deterioration, "streamers" on caudal fin of the female clown. My starry Blenny was biting his tail a couple days before he died.
Overall all fish have been eating through this whole thing, and have for the most part (beside the female clown) looked healthy. Whatever it is it seems to affect all fish, but it's almost like it targets one fish at a time. At first I thought this was velvet, but now I think it might be brook.
Needless to say this has been a pretty big heartbreak. 1.5 years ago I had a power failure issue when I was traveling, lost nearly everything, this isn't as bad but it's a similar feeling. I want to help the remaining fish but want to be more confident with what this is.
On day 2 of freaking out and losing the second fish I went to the LFS and purchased the kick Ich + Rally combo (I know this is a bandaid, but I'm pretty desperate . I feel like Rally may have helped but not really sure... It may have made the symptoms less obvious, but fish continued to die 1 by 1.
I want to go fallow, does that work with keeping my 4 shrimp in the tank, or do they need to be removed too?
Can my bubble tip nems stay in the display with it being fallow?
What QT params are okay? Does the water need to cooler or warmer than usual? Salinity okay at 1.024 sg?
Is a 25-30g QT okay for the 4 remaining fish? Pink streak wrasse, super male Marjorie wrasse, male yellowfin wrasse, and a foxface.
Finally, I have access to metronidazole, can I dose that and copper in QT? This would essentially kill off velvet and brook, right?
Can anyone help? I hope I can get some advice!
I've lost 5 out of 9 fish so far. And that happened in a 7 day period. It's been two days since the last death, and I'm working on starting a QT as soon as possible.
Symptoms have been: occasional scratching on rocks, occasional head shaking, a couple small white dots on body and fins a couple weeks ago, some fish swimming in flow (some of my wrasses seemed to have always done this on occasion though). The more serious symptoms have been: before my female clown died she was covered in a white/creamy film, fin deterioration, "streamers" on caudal fin of the female clown. My starry Blenny was biting his tail a couple days before he died.
Overall all fish have been eating through this whole thing, and have for the most part (beside the female clown) looked healthy. Whatever it is it seems to affect all fish, but it's almost like it targets one fish at a time. At first I thought this was velvet, but now I think it might be brook.
Needless to say this has been a pretty big heartbreak. 1.5 years ago I had a power failure issue when I was traveling, lost nearly everything, this isn't as bad but it's a similar feeling. I want to help the remaining fish but want to be more confident with what this is.
On day 2 of freaking out and losing the second fish I went to the LFS and purchased the kick Ich + Rally combo (I know this is a bandaid, but I'm pretty desperate . I feel like Rally may have helped but not really sure... It may have made the symptoms less obvious, but fish continued to die 1 by 1.
I want to go fallow, does that work with keeping my 4 shrimp in the tank, or do they need to be removed too?
Can my bubble tip nems stay in the display with it being fallow?
What QT params are okay? Does the water need to cooler or warmer than usual? Salinity okay at 1.024 sg?
Is a 25-30g QT okay for the 4 remaining fish? Pink streak wrasse, super male Marjorie wrasse, male yellowfin wrasse, and a foxface.
Finally, I have access to metronidazole, can I dose that and copper in QT? This would essentially kill off velvet and brook, right?
Can anyone help? I hope I can get some advice!