Hey guys,
So my orange spotted bristletooth tang has had an odd thing happen. It is not like the usual fin rot I have seen or experienced before as that usually is slower. Here's the story.
I added the fish to the dt approximately 2 weeks ago. Behaved normally and grazed all day. Only blemish was a cut it received from another tang at the store. That is healing fine and already has new scales coming in over it. Here's a picture of him from then...
You can see the cut but the fins look great and he is healthy.
Thursday, I dosed the DT with prazi as 2 fish showed some fluke symptoms. Those fish are doing great now. The issue is that within 24 hours of dosing prazi, the tang became more skittish and hid alot. He also wasn't out grazing as he was previously. I figured it was probably just stress from the meds or maybe some fluke die-off on him. The tank only has 5 fish in it and they're all fairly small and the total system is about 350 gallons. Ammonia stayed undetectable during treatment and nitrates stayed low (appx 2ppm). Ph stayed in the regular zone of about 8 and I left the skimmer running but removed the cup to keep o2 levels up.
Well, day 4 of treatment rolls around and everything looks good, including the tang who still looked perfect despite the skittishness. Morning of day 5, the tangs fins had deteriorated significantly, so I started setting up the qt but needed to mix salt and get it up to temp, but I turned the skimmer back on and got carbon running.
We're on day 6 now. I have the qt ready to go, but now the tang is out cruising and grazing with mild fin damage. As you can see in the pics.
An issue I have observed with this fish is that it has always just grazed and I rarely see it eat mysis or anything, so I have concerns over putting him in a qt.
Have y'all seen fin rot with this kind of rapid onset before? I have bifuran to treat him with if necessary. I have a feeling that qt might stress him more especially since he seems to be acting normally, now.
What is y'alls thoughts?
So my orange spotted bristletooth tang has had an odd thing happen. It is not like the usual fin rot I have seen or experienced before as that usually is slower. Here's the story.
I added the fish to the dt approximately 2 weeks ago. Behaved normally and grazed all day. Only blemish was a cut it received from another tang at the store. That is healing fine and already has new scales coming in over it. Here's a picture of him from then...
You can see the cut but the fins look great and he is healthy.
Thursday, I dosed the DT with prazi as 2 fish showed some fluke symptoms. Those fish are doing great now. The issue is that within 24 hours of dosing prazi, the tang became more skittish and hid alot. He also wasn't out grazing as he was previously. I figured it was probably just stress from the meds or maybe some fluke die-off on him. The tank only has 5 fish in it and they're all fairly small and the total system is about 350 gallons. Ammonia stayed undetectable during treatment and nitrates stayed low (appx 2ppm). Ph stayed in the regular zone of about 8 and I left the skimmer running but removed the cup to keep o2 levels up.
Well, day 4 of treatment rolls around and everything looks good, including the tang who still looked perfect despite the skittishness. Morning of day 5, the tangs fins had deteriorated significantly, so I started setting up the qt but needed to mix salt and get it up to temp, but I turned the skimmer back on and got carbon running.
We're on day 6 now. I have the qt ready to go, but now the tang is out cruising and grazing with mild fin damage. As you can see in the pics.
An issue I have observed with this fish is that it has always just grazed and I rarely see it eat mysis or anything, so I have concerns over putting him in a qt.
Have y'all seen fin rot with this kind of rapid onset before? I have bifuran to treat him with if necessary. I have a feeling that qt might stress him more especially since he seems to be acting normally, now.
What is y'alls thoughts?