How long should I go fallow?

[gracie3700]

I had a disease take out an entire tank 55 days ago now. The tanks been fallow since November 10. On Nov 1 I had two clownfish die seemingly overnight. No white spots no nothing that I could see. Then a few days later I noticed my pair of mandarin gobies had some white patches all over them, not spots but patches and the one had its mucus coat sloffing off. The worse off one died that night. I then caught the remaining goby and bristle tooth tang (the tang of which was covered in white patches). I then moved the two survivors to a qt tank and treated every 2 days with seachem metroplex. The goby seemed to get its color back and the patches went away but the tang still had some white patches all over. On the last day of treatment, according to the bottle, both fish died overnight. I’m assuming ammonia spike or possibly the aerator popped out of the tank. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures but the tank they were in is still running fallow, I’ve been doing water changes due to it also being a frag tank. The tank is running at 1.025 last time I tested and around 77°. I’m thinking it was brook due to the response of metroplex but I am honestly not too sure. It seemed like the ones I didn’t catch in time died 24-48 hours after the onset of symptoms. Just wondering what to do fallow period wise since it is coming up on week 8 here.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I had a disease take out an entire tank 55 days ago now. The tanks been fallow since November 10. On Nov 1 I had two clownfish die seemingly overnight. No white spots no nothing that I could see. Then a few days later I noticed my pair of mandarin gobies had some white patches all over them, not spots but patches and the one had its mucus coat sloffing off. The worse off one died that night. I then caught the remaining goby and bristle tooth tang (the tang of which was covered in white patches). I then moved the two survivors to a qt tank and treated every 2 days with seachem metroplex. The goby seemed to get its color back and the patches went away but the tang still had some white patches all over. On the last day of treatment, according to the bottle, both fish died overnight. I’m assuming ammonia spike or possibly the aerator popped out of the tank. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures but the tank they were in is still running fallow, I’ve been doing water changes due to it also being a frag tank. The tank is running at 1.025 last time I tested and around 77°. I’m thinking it was brook due to the response of metroplex but I am honestly not too sure. It seemed like the ones I didn’t catch in time died 24-48 hours after the onset of symptoms. Just wondering what to do fallow period wise since it is coming up on week 8 here.

Typical recommendation is 45-60 days and up to 72 days which it seems you have met this timeline.

 

[MnFish1]

I had a disease take out an entire tank 55 days ago now. The tanks been fallow since November 10. On Nov 1 I had two clownfish die seemingly overnight. No white spots no nothing that I could see. Then a few days later I noticed my pair of mandarin gobies had some white patches all over them, not spots but patches and the one had its mucus coat sloffing off. The worse off one died that night. I then caught the remaining goby and bristle tooth tang (the tang of which was covered in white patches). I then moved the two survivors to a qt tank and treated every 2 days with seachem metroplex. The goby seemed to get its color back and the patches went away but the tang still had some white patches all over. On the last day of treatment, according to the bottle, both fish died overnight. I’m assuming ammonia spike or possibly the aerator popped out of the tank. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures but the tank they were in is still running fallow, I’ve been doing water changes due to it also being a frag tank. The tank is running at 1.025 last time I tested and around 77°. I’m thinking it was brook due to the response of metroplex but I am honestly not too sure. It seemed like the ones I didn’t catch in time died 24-48 hours after the onset of symptoms. Just wondering what to do fallow period wise since it is coming up on week 8 here.

6-8 weeks is the usual time - I would check your parameters, temp, etc. I would also tend to do a longer fallow period since you don't really know what the problem was. I could consider velvet vs. brooklynella. I would also quarantine any fish added to the tank in the future.

 

[gracie3700]

6-8 weeks is the usual time - I would check your parameters, temp, etc. I would also tend to do a longer fallow period since you don't really know what the problem was. I could consider velvet vs. brooklynella. I would also quarantine any fish added to the tank in the future.

Yeah I was pretty unsure, it came in on a clownfish I believe. It responded to metres but didn’t respond to the copper I put the original clownfish in. As of now it’s got an exploding pod and micro snail population.