Happy Ending with a Moorish Idol

[HotRocks]

I had a rough week with my QT this week and lost some fish to a gram negative bacterial infection.

All is good now and remaining fish are in treatment with NFG and doing better.

Figured I would share a happy story since the disease forum can be a rough place to be sometimes.

Some of you (@4FordFamily @Humblefish @dwwataz ) are in tune with my moorish idol situation. For those of you who are not, it goes something like this.

I have had him for roughly 120 days now. He went through full QT prior to making it to my DT (copper, GC, and metro/focus soaked food for 10 days). Within a couple weeks in DT he had lightened up on his eating. (He eats like a pig normally, and strange for an idol but he would eat anything you put in the tank). He came down with a bacterial infection so I had to catch him (that was fun). Move him to a QT and then he was treated with the trifecta for 12 days. I left him in QT for an additional week for observation. Last night a 30 minute bath in MB and back to DT in an acclimation box.

He has made a full recovery and back to eating anything and everything.

Day I moved him to QT and started ABX:

Today in DT!

 

[KJ]

Great job Kyle

 

[deedubz]

I'm so happy to hear this dude! That guy, an absolute beauty, is in great hands

 

[4FordFamily]

Done like a boss!!! Now for the streamer to grow back again as it was pre-infection!

 

[deedubz]

Is he in your Red Sea tank?

 

[HotRocks]

Done like a boss!!! Now for the streamer to grow back again as it was pre-infection!

Oh yeah it was 6-8" long!

 

[HotRocks]

Is he in your Red Sea tank?

Yes he is in the 750XXL.

 

[Fishfinder]

Why did you choose the trifecta over using NFG? I only ask because you have fish in NFG now. How do you choose one antibiotic over the other ?

 

[HotRocks]

Why did you choose the trifecta over using NFG? I only ask because you have fish in NFG now. How do you choose one antibiotic over the other ?

The only reason I didn't use NFG was I did not have any on hand when the idol needed to begin ABX and I had all 3 of the meds for the trifecta on hand. I now have NFG on hand, and would have used it instead if I had it at the time.

 

[Fishfinder]

I gotcha, makes sense.

The only reason i ask is because I have meds for both. I'm always scared to use the NFG because it turns the water green hahahaha

 

[HotRocks]

I gotcha, makes sense.

The only reason i ask is because I have meds for both. I'm always scared to use the NFG because it turns the water green hahahaha

Yeah furan-2 turns the water greenish, and NFG is like a dark blue green, NFG contains MB. That's the reason it "stains" the water so heavily. Which neither bother me, as long as the fish lives!

 

[Fishfinder]

Yeah furan-2 turns the water greenish, and NFG is like a dark blue green, NFG contains MB. That's the reason it "stains" the water so heavily. Which neither bother me, as long as the fish lives!

What is MB?

 

[deedubz]

What is MB?

Methylene blue I assume

 

[HotRocks]

Methylene blue I assume

Yep

 

[Fishfinder]

Ahhh...
good job with the idol, they are on my list when I get my QT perfected.

 

[Scurvy]

Well done! That’s a pretty idol!

 

[DSC reef]

Awesome to hear. That's a beautiful fish.

 

[hdsoftail1065]

Wow, that is a beautiful fish, congrats getting this guy back to good health!

 

[Humblefish]

Great job, Kyle! Your Idol is beautiful.

 

[Big G]

Yeah furan-2 turns the water greenish, and NFG is like a dark blue green, NFG contains MB. That's the reason it "stains" the water so heavily. Which neither bother me, as long as the fish lives!

Big fan of NFG. Seems to work a bit faster than the trifecta. Could be wrong, just seems to get to and act on the infection a bit more efficiently. Nice job Kyle. Nice job. Beautiful fish. And thanks for the "Good news post"