Newly acquired azure damselfish dies the second day in QT

[EricL.]

Hey all, yesterday a shipment with the following fish arrived at our home:

- 3 azure damselfish
- 1 six line wrasse
- 1 royal gramma

Yesterday, they were all doing fine after a short ruby pro dip. Eating, swimming around, discovering the pvc piping caves in our quarantine tank.
I noted that one azure damselfish had small areas of its body looking like in this thread, but smaller:

Reef2Reef Link

Some minutes ago, i noticed him laying on its side at the bottom of the QT. He's a goner by now. One othe Damsel shows a very small spot as well. I tried to take a picture:

Am I correct to assume some bacterial or fungal infection? I decided to dose Ruby Rally Pro and mixed the food with Focus & Kanaplex.

Normally, I follow Jay Hemdals quarantine protocol. I did not dose anything before just now.

My battle plan is to dose Rally Pro for the next three days, Focus daily with food and Kanaplex every other day for a total of 3 uses.
Would you agree to my plan?
I made sure to have many medications available, but I am located in germany, so ordering something new from the US might take some weeks.

If my battle plan is okay-ish, how would i proceed with the quarantine protocol?

Thanks in advance!
Eric

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hey all, yesterday a shipment with the following fish arrived at our home:

- 3 azure damselfish
- 1 six line wrasse
- 1 royal gramma

Yesterday, they were all doing fine after a short ruby pro dip. Eating, swimming around, discovering the pvc piping caves in our quarantine tank.
I noted that one azure damselfish had small areas of its body looking like in this thread, but smaller:

Reef2Reef Link

Some minutes ago, i noticed him laying on its side at the bottom of the QT. He's a goner by now. One othe Damsel shows a very small spot as well. I tried to take a picture:

Am I correct to assume some bacterial or fungal infection? I decided to dose Ruby Rally Pro and mixed the food with Focus & Kanaplex.

Normally, I follow Jay Hemdals quarantine protocol. I did not dose anything before just now.

My battle plan is to dose Rally Pro for the next three days, Focus daily with food and Kanaplex every other day for a total of 3 uses.
Would you agree to my plan?
I made sure to have many medications available, but I am located in germany, so ordering something new from the US might take some weeks.

If my battle plan is okay-ish, how would i proceed with the quarantine protocol?

Thanks in advance!
Eric

Can be bacterial but my suspect is injury from netting. At times especially if you get someone inexperienced netting fish, they will cause damage without realizing it and ive seen some at LFS that are so rough on capture that I wonder if fish will be alive when the fish gets to customers' home

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Hey all, yesterday a shipment with the following fish arrived at our home:

- 3 azure damselfish
- 1 six line wrasse
- 1 royal gramma

Yesterday, they were all doing fine after a short ruby pro dip. Eating, swimming around, discovering the pvc piping caves in our quarantine tank.
I noted that one azure damselfish had small areas of its body looking like in this thread, but smaller:

Reef2Reef Link

Some minutes ago, i noticed him laying on its side at the bottom of the QT. He's a goner by now. One othe Damsel shows a very small spot as well. I tried to take a picture:

Am I correct to assume some bacterial or fungal infection? I decided to dose Ruby Rally Pro and mixed the food with Focus & Kanaplex.

Normally, I follow Jay Hemdals quarantine protocol. I did not dose anything before just now.

My battle plan is to dose Rally Pro for the next three days, Focus daily with food and Kanaplex every other day for a total of 3 uses.
Would you agree to my plan?
I made sure to have many medications available, but I am located in germany, so ordering something new from the US might take some weeks.

If my battle plan is okay-ish, how would i proceed with the quarantine protocol?

Thanks in advance!
Eric

It may just be shipping damage/stress. However, with any newly acquired damselfish that shows an "injury" you can't rule out uronema:

Uronema / Red Band Disease - Hemdal

Red Band Syndrome in Marine Fishes: Caused by the Protozoan; Uronema sp. Jay Hemdal Introduction: This moderately common disease of certain species of marine fish is so often misdiagnosed that most aquarists apply incorrect treatment methods...

www.reef2reef.com

Skip the food + Focus unless you are calculating a proper dose (tough to do).

Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods

This article offers information about developing medicated foods for aquarium fish

www.reef2reef.com

Jay

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

what size is the QT tank? Adding 5 fish at once might have overloaded the biofilter.

 

[EricL.]

It may just be shipping damage/stress. However, with any newly acquired damselfish that shows an "injury" you can't rule out uronema:

Uronema / Red Band Disease - Hemdal

Red Band Syndrome in Marine Fishes: Caused by the Protozoan; Uronema sp. Jay Hemdal Introduction: This moderately common disease of certain species of marine fish is so often misdiagnosed that most aquarists apply incorrect treatment methods...

www.reef2reef.com

Skip the food + Focus unless you are calculating a proper dose (tough to do).

Proper Dosing of Medicated Foods

This article offers information about developing medicated foods for aquarium fish

www.reef2reef.com

Jay

Thanks!

I'll try calculating a proper dose, thanks for the great article!
Should i keep dosing ruby for 2 more days, then do a water change and proceed with the quarantine protocol (copper)?

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Thanks!

I'll try calculating a proper dose, thanks for the great article!
Should i keep dosing ruby for 2 more days, then do a water change and proceed with the quarantine protocol (copper)?

What type of copper do you have available to you? There is an ionic copper in Europe that I don't suggest that people use due to toxicity. Coppersafe or Copper Power are the two safest ones.

Jay

 

[EricL.]

What type of copper do you have available to you? There is an ionic copper in Europe that I don't suggest that people use due to toxicity. Coppersafe or Copper Power are the two safest ones.

Jay

I have Copper Power at hand.

 

[EricL.]

what size is the QT tank? Adding 5 fish at once might have overloaded the biofilter.

It is around 75 liters, and I took the biofilter and water out of my show tank.

 

[bishoptf]

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