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Looking from some help with some people with extensive experience in quarantine.
I have a convict thing that has been ill for several months. I put it through Standard quarantine including copper power 2.5 ppm for one month, two doses of general cure. From day one getting home from the fish store the fish was scratching/flashing. I thought the problem had resolved in quarantine the fish was watched for several weeks without medication‘s and placed in display tank. The fish exhibited recurrent flashing and scratching so I removed him treated for possible Gil flukes with hypo salinity 1.009 for one month. However the fish continue to be symptomatic. I then tried fenbendazole bath x 2. Symptoms continued. I figured possible skin Orgill parasite so I did prolonged immersion in formalin 1 mL per 10 gallons for two weeks. Symptoms persisted so I did another round of copper. The fish improves in copper, eat well and he’s normally except for occasional scratching. I have just placed it in a non-medicated sterile tank and he is getting worse, and is continuously irritated. There are no skin lesions, that dish will sit still and occasionally race around the tank and shake his head is also scratch his body. I’m assuming the fish has u diagnosed untreatable virus or some other organ failure / immune issue that is not treatable. Not sure what to do from here.
I have a convict thing that has been ill for several months. I put it through Standard quarantine including copper power 2.5 ppm for one month, two doses of general cure. From day one getting home from the fish store the fish was scratching/flashing. I thought the problem had resolved in quarantine the fish was watched for several weeks without medication‘s and placed in display tank. The fish exhibited recurrent flashing and scratching so I removed him treated for possible Gil flukes with hypo salinity 1.009 for one month. However the fish continue to be symptomatic. I then tried fenbendazole bath x 2. Symptoms continued. I figured possible skin Orgill parasite so I did prolonged immersion in formalin 1 mL per 10 gallons for two weeks. Symptoms persisted so I did another round of copper. The fish improves in copper, eat well and he’s normally except for occasional scratching. I have just placed it in a non-medicated sterile tank and he is getting worse, and is continuously irritated. There are no skin lesions, that dish will sit still and occasionally race around the tank and shake his head is also scratch his body. I’m assuming the fish has u diagnosed untreatable virus or some other organ failure / immune issue that is not treatable. Not sure what to do from here.