My First Attempt at the Big Time: WaterBox PP 230.6 Tank Build

[tdlawdo]

The plan was to catch the scribble. He is so cute he follows me or the grandkids from side to side at the front of the tank. He is very interactive. Once caught i was going to remove the offensive growth and of course look at it under the microscope.

 

[tdlawdo]

I pay pretty close attention to the fish, so i know this wasn't something brewing for weeks rather it may have been brewing but wasn't visibly showing i should say. They are all eating like always. three frozen food feedings a day using LRS herbivore, Hikari mysis, and spirulina brine with one or two small pinches of pelleted food a day in between.

Anyway, by noon yesterday the flame had one spot on his back, two of the tangs had bumps all over but no white spots yet and by evening the achilles was looked like he swam through a salt spinkler, and the powder brown started with bumps. uggggghhhh

 

[Katrina71]

Crap!

 

[tdlawdo]

no pics of the tangs yet as i have spent the better part of the last 12 hours preparing hospital tanks and trying to catch these speed demons. So far i have the powder blue and the achilles in CP in one tank and the venusta, three cardinals and the wrasse in a different tank. Ill get pics of the rest when Im down moving some scape out of the way to catch the others after sun up this morning.

 

[Katrina71]

You've caught it early.

 

[tdlawdo]

I still have to figure out all the ins and outs of going fallow and what that entails other than going 3 months to outlive the 72 day life cycle. And trying to figure out the way this got in. After consulting with some on here and in "real" life @Hemmdog et al i think maybe this stuff got in here via some snails and two crabs i recently bought. Never thought to QT those. But going forward i will keep a tank with some coral and inverts only for QT of inverts before putting them into the DT. I'm using cholorquine phosphate at 40mg/gal as a one time dose with replenishment on water changes.

 

[tdlawdo]

You've caught it early.

fingers crossed

 

[Katrina71]

fingers crossed

You've got this. @HotRocks please take a look.

 

[NY_Caveman]

fingers crossed

Mine too!

 

[dantimdad]

Man! That escalated quickly!

I would say it was in the water from the snails. Not that you put their water in the tank.

I wish I was there to help.

 

[najer]

Sucks, good luck.

 

[Why-Me]

So sorry to see this, fingers crossed over here for you too.
Sending good vibes!

 

[Lowell Lemon]

Good luck Doc! This why I use U.V. at the proper kill rate. I honestly don't think there is any practical way to prevent some cross contamination in a home aquarium.

Bummed out for you!

 

[Hemmdog]

I hope things are going a little better today for you and your fishy friends!

 

[MrWheelock]

Great thread! Sorry about your luck, fingers crossed and good vibes for successful treatment.

 

[Bleigh]

Woah. No bueno. Hopefully you caught it early. Were you able to see anything on microscope?

Do you have any cleaner shrimp?

 

[tdlawdo]

Yes I have cleaner shrimp.
All fish are doing well I have the Tangs in a 24x24x16 brand new rimless hospital tank with CP at 40mg/gal and so far so good they are skiddish so no pics but eating and doing better. Actually can’t see anything on them. Using frozen mysis, spirulina brine and LRS all soaked with Selcon. 5 gallon water change QOD. The cardinals, wrasse and angels in a 29 Biocube and they all look great. The flame had only one white spot which is now gone. The cardinal had one white spot on his tail still there not even sure it is ich. And the scribble had the dangling participle on its tail which I removed surgically during the transfer and looked at it under the microscope. Pics to follow. Tank is fallow.

And YES THE PENTAIR 40watt is getting Hooked up this week.

 

[tdlawdo]

As for the coral!! They all did fine so far with the Alk debacle. I have them in a new home a 1/2 29 frag tank with a noopsyche light (thanks @dantimdad)

 

[tdlawdo]

Here is what the text shows for lymphocystis

Looks like mine with a different stain. The virus filled fibroblasts 50 times larger than the scant red blood cells in the second pic. All were at the same magnification.

 

[tdlawdo]

Good luck Doc! This why I use U.V. at the proper kill rate. I honestly don't think there is any practical way to prevent some cross contamination in a home aquarium.

Bummed out for you!

I’d love to ask some questions or see some pics of the UV I’m trying to install mine this week.