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Get a sponge filter and a big bottle of fritz or biospira bacteria. A hang on back filter with non aragonite biomedia also works.
AHhh that makes sense.. Going to get a few large ones today!
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Get a sponge filter and a big bottle of fritz or biospira bacteria. A hang on back filter with non aragonite biomedia also works.
My ammonia is at 0.65 right now with hanna checker. Two 20g tank without bio not enough. Doing a water change tonight, hope the bio bottle works fast with the sponge filter.Get a sponge filter and a big bottle of fritz or biospira bacteria. A hang on back filter with non aragonite biomedia also works.
I'm planning on ordering ORA Saddlebacks, and I'm curious as to what all transpired with diagnosis and treatment. Would you please share? Thank you!Im planning on removing these fish and putting them back in QT, running ruby rally on them and observe again.
But with the DT, i can wait to see if my other fish show signs? Im skeptical that ruby reef rally can eradicate brook in DT.
And is it safe with corals?
Looks like the large saddle is in end stage. Maybe only s few hours left. His body is faded color now. Still cant tell what he has. Doesnt appear to have to skin "peeling" like brook.
I'm planning on ordering ORA Saddlebacks, and I'm curious as to what all transpired with diagnosis and treatment. Would you please share? Thank you!
I'm sorry to hear that. May I ask who you ordered your Ora Saddlebacks from? I start my cycle in the morning, and am purchasing fish in a couple weeks. I definitely don't want to receive sick Saddlebacks... Thank you very much for sharing your experience with this. It really does pay to be informed.Well, I didn't quarantine the fish because I assumed they would be disease free. I've always QT every fish before this. Unfortunately, these clown had brook. The end result was, both ORA clowns died, I also lost two rhomboid wrasse, a blue tang and a whitetail tang. I have 4 other wrasse, a purple tang, a potters angel, and two other clowns that survived.
I removed all the fish from my DT and ran copper initially with no result. Brook spread to various other fish as copper had no effect. I gave them formalin dip and thats where my whitetail tang died (didnt take the formalin well). Unfortunately, the formalin didnt eradicate brook. I then ran chloroquine phosphate and towards the tail end of the treatment, my two rhomboids died (it seem they tolerated chloroquine fine but they also succumb to treatment). However, good news was chloroquine did eradicate brook. Bad news, my blue tang stop eating while on chloroquine. I thought he was going to pull through because he started eating again for two days post treatment but then stopped and died.
I still mange to save the rest of the fish and I'm 6 weeks into fallow period. I'm going to put the fish in after 8 weeks fallow.
Lesson learned, always run full QT regardless of the source.
What is particularly interesting is that the new ORA clowns only sat in an acclimation box in the DT for about 5 hours making no contact with any other fish. This was enough to spread the disease.
I'm sorry to hear that. May I ask who you ordered your Ora Saddlebacks from? I start my cycle in the morning, and am purchasing fish in a couple weeks. I definitely don't want to receive sick Saddlebacks... Thank you very much for sharing your experience with this. It really does pay to be informed.
Thank you again, that's great news! I'm new to reefing, and I just want to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can. This site is amazing. And that's because of the people who make this community what it is...It came shipped directly from ORA. Ordered it from saltwateraquarium.com. They just dropship .
Just because my clowns were sick doesnt mean yours will be. Years back I ordered a fish from Divers Den and it had velvet. i just got another fish from Divers Den this week too to replace my blue tang that died.