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My father has a new tank and after it had cycled he had added fish and inverts without quarantine or research and almost all of the fish have died.
The inverts were added first:
2 scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
2 blood red fire shrimp
2 emerald crab
8 red hermit crab
16 snails
1 longspine black urchin (added from old tank)
The first fish to be added were:
1 box fish (1 inch)
1 sailfin tang (1 inch)
1 lawnmower blenny (3 inch)
1 foxface lo (4 inch)
Then the next load of fish:
1 juvenile emperor angelfish (3 inch)
1 powder blue tang (3 inch)
1 blue tang (1 inch)
5 blue/green chromis (1 inch)
The fish were fed a varied diet of nori, frozen mussel, mysis, squid and live brine shrimp/copepods and all seemed to get on fine with the occasional powder blue tang chasing the foxface.
The problems started with the blue tang, after a week it was more reserved and started scratching against the rocks, looking lumpy and had white spots appearing.
Within a few days the sailfin tang, powder blue tang, boxfish and emperior angelfish were showing signs of white dots on the fins or body.
The boxfish was the first to go, its eye had bubbled, fins deteriorated, twitching and covered in bubbles.
The LFS recommended treating the tank with 'eSHa OODINEX WIDE RANGE MARINE TREATMENT' as it was invert friendly. This just seemed to turn the water green and within the next day the sailfin tang and emperor angelfish had died. The powder blue tang passed the next day.
The foxface has brown spots over its body and white around its head and heavily breathing, chromis and blenny seem fine.
I appreciate a lot of mistake shave been made after doing much needed research.
We do have a separate smaller tank which houses a niger trigger and a lemon peel angelfish (these were held back to be added last due to their aggressive nature).
I think the remaining fish (foxface, chromis and blenny) need to be removed and added to the smaller tank with the trigger and lemonpeel and treated with a copper based medicine.
I am unsure as to what to do with the inverts (can they carry the disease) I know copper treatments will kill them.
i then intend to treat the larger display tank with copper and then add the fish from the smaller tank to the larger one.
Moving forward I suggested purchasing all the new fish at once putting them in the smaller tank, treat with copper and quarantine for 8 weeks before transferring to the main tank.
Any advice or suggestions?
Thanks.
My father has a new tank and after it had cycled he had added fish and inverts without quarantine or research and almost all of the fish have died.
The inverts were added first:
2 scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp
2 blood red fire shrimp
2 emerald crab
8 red hermit crab
16 snails
1 longspine black urchin (added from old tank)
The first fish to be added were:
1 box fish (1 inch)
1 sailfin tang (1 inch)
1 lawnmower blenny (3 inch)
1 foxface lo (4 inch)
Then the next load of fish:
1 juvenile emperor angelfish (3 inch)
1 powder blue tang (3 inch)
1 blue tang (1 inch)
5 blue/green chromis (1 inch)
The fish were fed a varied diet of nori, frozen mussel, mysis, squid and live brine shrimp/copepods and all seemed to get on fine with the occasional powder blue tang chasing the foxface.
The problems started with the blue tang, after a week it was more reserved and started scratching against the rocks, looking lumpy and had white spots appearing.
Within a few days the sailfin tang, powder blue tang, boxfish and emperior angelfish were showing signs of white dots on the fins or body.
The boxfish was the first to go, its eye had bubbled, fins deteriorated, twitching and covered in bubbles.
The LFS recommended treating the tank with 'eSHa OODINEX WIDE RANGE MARINE TREATMENT' as it was invert friendly. This just seemed to turn the water green and within the next day the sailfin tang and emperor angelfish had died. The powder blue tang passed the next day.
The foxface has brown spots over its body and white around its head and heavily breathing, chromis and blenny seem fine.
I appreciate a lot of mistake shave been made after doing much needed research.
We do have a separate smaller tank which houses a niger trigger and a lemon peel angelfish (these were held back to be added last due to their aggressive nature).
I think the remaining fish (foxface, chromis and blenny) need to be removed and added to the smaller tank with the trigger and lemonpeel and treated with a copper based medicine.
I am unsure as to what to do with the inverts (can they carry the disease) I know copper treatments will kill them.
i then intend to treat the larger display tank with copper and then add the fish from the smaller tank to the larger one.
Moving forward I suggested purchasing all the new fish at once putting them in the smaller tank, treat with copper and quarantine for 8 weeks before transferring to the main tank.
Any advice or suggestions?
Thanks.
