Heyo,
I've recently gotten a nice case of velvet in my FOWLR... Fun stuff.
I've moved my sailfin, gladiator clown, and filefish to QT while my pajama cardinal, lawnmower blenny, mandarin, and hawkfish are all still in the main and thankfully not showing symptoms (though I'm sure it's just a matter of time).
I set up a 10g QT with sponge filter, PVC hideouts, heater, and small lights for viewing.
Brought home some Cupramine, an API test kit, some extra aminos/vitamins and spirulina.
I'm on day 5... I've done a slower ramp than the dosing suggested just to make sure no one's shocked to death and tested twice daily. First 50% water change on day 3 and reupped to knock the levels back up after removing the water. As of now, I've got a fairly steady dose of 20 drops/10.5g as the bottle recommends.
I've tested 7 times with the API kit, no reading.
I picked up the Searched copper test kit and tested 5 times, no readings.
My fish look like hell. Heavy breathing, laying, not eating. May be Brook, may be velvet but I don't know what hell's going on given my dosing with the Cupramine had been actually a little higher than recommended given I haven't gotten any readings.
Really trying to save a few fish here, otherwise I'm going to formalin baths and a full breakdown to scorching my LR to kill the crap and hit reset with new substrate, not optimal......
I'm going to likely put everyone back in the main until I can figure out what's going on with the copper readings here.
Any thoughts would be will appreciated.
I've recently gotten a nice case of velvet in my FOWLR... Fun stuff.
I've moved my sailfin, gladiator clown, and filefish to QT while my pajama cardinal, lawnmower blenny, mandarin, and hawkfish are all still in the main and thankfully not showing symptoms (though I'm sure it's just a matter of time).
I set up a 10g QT with sponge filter, PVC hideouts, heater, and small lights for viewing.
Brought home some Cupramine, an API test kit, some extra aminos/vitamins and spirulina.
I'm on day 5... I've done a slower ramp than the dosing suggested just to make sure no one's shocked to death and tested twice daily. First 50% water change on day 3 and reupped to knock the levels back up after removing the water. As of now, I've got a fairly steady dose of 20 drops/10.5g as the bottle recommends.
I've tested 7 times with the API kit, no reading.
I picked up the Searched copper test kit and tested 5 times, no readings.
My fish look like hell. Heavy breathing, laying, not eating. May be Brook, may be velvet but I don't know what hell's going on given my dosing with the Cupramine had been actually a little higher than recommended given I haven't gotten any readings.
Really trying to save a few fish here, otherwise I'm going to formalin baths and a full breakdown to scorching my LR to kill the crap and hit reset with new substrate, not optimal......
I'm going to likely put everyone back in the main until I can figure out what's going on with the copper readings here.
Any thoughts would be will appreciated.