So I will start off by saying, I’ve been in and out of the hobby for 15 years, have never quarantined and never had any disease issues. But I’ve learned my lesson after I’ve lost over $1,000 worth of fish over the past few weeks.
So my tank has been going awesome since spring. Slowly added fish every couple of months. My last of my stocking list purchases was made in August. I got a Naso, kole, yellow, and powder brown tang gang. Things were amazing for several weeks. I also had 3 bimac anthias, a Foxface, 4 chromis, 2 clowns, male blue throat trigger, Melanarus wrasse, royal gramma, and a diamond goby/pistol shrimp.
My tang gang was doing great to start and they spent all day picking at the rocks. Then one day I came home and the naso was dead. No signs of anything, just looked super skinny all of a sudden. Then a bimac anthia just up and disappeared. Still no physical signs of anything that I could tell. Then the yellow stopped eating. Then I started to notice some white dots on his fins. And I found out about Velvet. The powder brown was covered in dots a few days later and he didn’t last very long. Then I found a bimac dead. I started to notice more fish getting velvet on them. Then I came home one day and the royal gramma who id Had from a previous tank was stuck to the side of an mp40. He showed no signs and was a healthy eater. I then ordered some RubyPro because it said you could treat in tank if no QT. I turned off skimmer and UV.
I came home today from being out of town this weekend and one clown was dead, the last tang is dead and stuck in some rocks being eaten by crabs and the last bimac has disappeared.
And the saddest thing to me personally is now the blue throat has it all over him. He was my favorite.
So as of writing this, all I have left is one clown, the Melanarus, the goby, and 4 chromis. One chromis is breathing heavy. The Foxface is hiding and the blue throat is heavily coated with it.
As easy as it is to say to setup a QT and get them out, how do I catch these fish in such a big tank with rock and some coral? I can’t even get to the dead fish to get it out, let alone one that can dart across tank.
So what are my options? Will they all die from it? I’ve read about going fallow, but what if they all don’t die?
thanks for any help. It’s been a really devastating month.
So my tank has been going awesome since spring. Slowly added fish every couple of months. My last of my stocking list purchases was made in August. I got a Naso, kole, yellow, and powder brown tang gang. Things were amazing for several weeks. I also had 3 bimac anthias, a Foxface, 4 chromis, 2 clowns, male blue throat trigger, Melanarus wrasse, royal gramma, and a diamond goby/pistol shrimp.
My tang gang was doing great to start and they spent all day picking at the rocks. Then one day I came home and the naso was dead. No signs of anything, just looked super skinny all of a sudden. Then a bimac anthia just up and disappeared. Still no physical signs of anything that I could tell. Then the yellow stopped eating. Then I started to notice some white dots on his fins. And I found out about Velvet. The powder brown was covered in dots a few days later and he didn’t last very long. Then I found a bimac dead. I started to notice more fish getting velvet on them. Then I came home one day and the royal gramma who id Had from a previous tank was stuck to the side of an mp40. He showed no signs and was a healthy eater. I then ordered some RubyPro because it said you could treat in tank if no QT. I turned off skimmer and UV.
I came home today from being out of town this weekend and one clown was dead, the last tang is dead and stuck in some rocks being eaten by crabs and the last bimac has disappeared.
And the saddest thing to me personally is now the blue throat has it all over him. He was my favorite.
So as of writing this, all I have left is one clown, the Melanarus, the goby, and 4 chromis. One chromis is breathing heavy. The Foxface is hiding and the blue throat is heavily coated with it.
As easy as it is to say to setup a QT and get them out, how do I catch these fish in such a big tank with rock and some coral? I can’t even get to the dead fish to get it out, let alone one that can dart across tank.
So what are my options? Will they all die from it? I’ve read about going fallow, but what if they all don’t die?
thanks for any help. It’s been a really devastating month.