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A sponge filter from a mature tank will help. Be sure to monitor the ammonia daily with a good test kit. You can also use Dr Tim’s bacteria to keep the ammonia in check.The big clown, small clown, blue damsel, domino damsel, diamond goby, 2 blue hippos, possum wrasse and one that looks like royal grama but I’m not sure it’s royal grama.
I actually went ahead and bought a 30G tank now but I’m not sure if it will cycle fast enough, putting the sponge filter from the more established tank will be enough?
Dead fish typically don’t offer many clues, I see some post Mortem decomposition.Hi again,
so I dosed the tank yesterday with the first dose of copper and today I'll dose that second dose.
Unfortunately I need to go on a road trip and I won't be able to monitor the fish, I might put a camera on the tank.
I already have 2 dead fish, one yesterday before the dosing and one today.
Can you see anything that you recognize on the poor clown?
The pinkish color wasn't there yesterday, the fish ate normal till I found him dead this morning.
Seeing brooklynella on a white clown is next to impossible. However it could have that, did you see anything like sheets of mucus coming off the fish?From what i've read it wo't be a good idea to add uv. and i already dosed cupermine.
I wish i would dip the small clown in freshwater as well. but he is so small that i couldn't see anything on him.
Yes I did, you can bearly see it in the picture, around the headSeeing brooklynella on a white clown is next to impossible. However it could have that, did you see anything like sheets of mucus coming off the fish?
Jay
Was that there before the fish died? It could just be post mortem decomp if it wasn't. A microscope ends up being pretty important in many of these cases.Zoomed image
Microscopes have a steep learning curve, but look for a dissecting scope with 20 to 40x magnification. Then, look for many pear shaped moving ciliates bound in the mucus.I do have a digital microscope, if it happens again, what am I supposed to look for with the microscope?
I’m thinking about getting more professional microscope that will help me see phytoplankton.
I can’t tell if the fish had this before he died, he always moves fast and he was mostly white. I didn’t see anything concerning before he died.
I would hold it at a full dose for 14 days. For coppersafe, I use 30 days, but most folks use 14 for Cupramine. I would then hold the fish for another 14 days of no copper to ensure there is no relapse.So I got home today, everything looks fine in all tanks!
The copper level is 0.34 so I dosed some more copper.
All of the fish are alive.
For how long should I maintain 0.5 copper?
That’s the problem, it may be too warm depending on the corals you have and how well they are doing. What is your current water temp?I didn’t take into consideration the 81 degrees part, I have 7 shrimps, 2 starfishes, 3 anemones and many different corals, raising the temp will be fine for them?
see the dead clownfish carefully, i am pretty sure its Brooklynella! uv, freshwater dips, copper dips...seems not help on this headache fish diseaseZoomed image