Petco rescue, two tangs

fishybizzness · May 22, 2019

My fish feasting on the grindal worms got from@mjrenz a few weeks ago! They just can't get enough of them!

Mjrenz · May 22, 2019

fishybizzness said:
My fish feasting on the grindal worms got from@mjrenz a few weeks ago! They just can't get enough of them!

I'm glad they like them!

Mjrenz · May 22, 2019

This is the best pic I could get of her tonight when she popped out to grab some food

Mastiffsrule · May 22, 2019

Looking good. Sorry have been checking in lately. 9 days straight catastrophe duty in Raleigh. Looking good. I may have missed it I’m sure. I think your setting up a tank. Mind recapping the plans for after the hospital treatment

Can’t believe its been a month and a half. Keep it up bud, you will be this centuries Cousteau or Paul B.? Hope he doesn’t see that

Mjrenz · May 22, 2019

Mastiffsrule said:
Looking good. Sorry have been checking in lately. 9 days straight catastrophe duty in Raleigh. Looking good. I may have missed it I’m sure. I think your setting up a tank. Mind recapping the plans for after the hospital treatment

Can’t believe its been a month and a half. Keep it up bud, you will be this centuries Cousteau or Paul B.? Hope he doesn’t see that

Lol ... I don't have the tank yet, Joe at Fish World said he hasn't gotten ahold of the person with the tank yet. He's normally in the store every week buying water but hasn't been in for a while. I'm really hoping he comes in soon and we can get things rolling

Mjrenz · May 23, 2019

This is probably one of the better videos I've gotten, besides the fact I forgot to film it in landscape

. I think she may have been breathing faster because of being startled by the phone, I just checked her and she's definitely breathing slower now. The ph is at 7.8 and still no ammonia, how is she looking to you @ngoodermuth?

ngoodermuth · May 23, 2019

She looks pretty good, I agree probably just startled by the phone... she hid right away. I think she will be much more relaxed once she’s out of QT

Mjrenz · May 23, 2019

ngoodermuth said:
She looks pretty good, I agree probably just startled by the phone... she hid right away. I think she will be much more relaxed once she’s out of QT

I've been meaning to ask you something (completly disregarding the anti qt thread), if this were your fish would you continue the hypo or bring her out and treat with copper?

ngoodermuth · May 24, 2019

Mjrenz said:
I've been meaning to ask you something (completly disregarding the anti qt thread), if this were your fish would you continue the hypo or bring her out and treat with copper?

The only reason I might not do copper instead of hypo in this very specific situation (with her already in hypo for resistant flukes), would be because it is a blue tang and they don’t really “hide” ich and velvet very well. If I didn’t do copper, I would definitely have a fairly long observation period med-free once hypo is complete, at least 3-4 weeks.

Because of the infections she had initially, and copper being an immunosuppressant... it might be in her best interest to avoid copper now that she’s come this far and hasn’t shown any signs of ich or velvet in all this time.

That said, ALL of my fish have been treated with either copper or CP at this point, and probably will continue to be indefinitely. I’ve had too many run-ins with parasites in my DTs over the years, not to.

I know that’s probably not helpful... this isn’t a “typical” QT situation :/

Mjrenz · May 24, 2019

ngoodermuth said:
The only reason I might not do copper instead of hypo in this very specific situation (with her already in hypo for resistant flukes), would be because it is a blue tang and they don’t really “hide” ich and velvet very well. If I didn’t do copper, I would definitely have a fairly long observation period med-free once hypo is complete, at least 3-4 weeks.

Because of the infections she had initially, and copper being an immunosuppressant... it might be in her best interest to avoid copper now that she’s come this far and hasn’t shown any signs of ich or velvet in all this time.

That said, ALL of my fish have been treated with either copper or CP at this point, and probably will continue to be indefinitely. I’ve had too many run-ins with parasites in my DTs over the years, not to.

I know that’s probably not helpful... this isn’t a “typical” QT situation :/

That's very helpful, thank you

Mjrenz · May 24, 2019

It's dinner time in the QT and all is well!

Cohibaman · May 24, 2019

Hippo are ich magnets. I’m wondering if all the water changes acted, basically like TTM, essentially knocking out the life cycle. Hmmm

Mjrenz · May 25, 2019

Cohibaman said:
Hippo are ich magnets. I’m wondering if all the water changes acted, basically like TTM, essentially knocking out the life cycle. Hmmm

I don't have any idea how much water I changed but it was a lot

iReefer12 · May 25, 2019

Awesome work. Just read almost all this thread! Amazing transformation of the blue tang. Wow!

AquaLifeStudio · May 25, 2019

Cohibaman said:
Hippo are ich magnets. I’m wondering if all the water changes acted, basically like TTM, essentially knocking out the life cycle. Hmmm

My answer would be no, "basically like TTM" is not "TTM".

Hypo could knock out the life cycle of the parasites, copper or a proper TTM, or a combination of those 3 methods.

Mjrenz · May 25, 2019

iReefer12 said:
Awesome work. Just read almost all this thread! Amazing transformation of the blue tang. Wow!

Thank you!

Cohibaman · May 25, 2019

sntmods said:
My answer would be no, "basically like TTM" is not "TTM".

Hypo could knock out the life cycle of the parasites, copper or a proper TTM, or a combination of those 3 methods.

Ahhh you’re right. I forgot he’s in hypo.

MombasaLionfish · May 25, 2019

Mjrenz said:
It's dinner time in the QT and all is well!

;Happy

Mjrenz · May 26, 2019

I just want to start off by saying that Baby Dory is still doing great!

I do have another problem that I haven't had the time or money to deal with yet but I'm going to need to do something today. Ngoodermuth has already given me some guidance but I think I may have a new problem that requires immediate attention. Below is a pic of my other blue hippo, I know I'm already managing ich and I saw some spots on her yesterday that are gone today. I also noticed that it looks like she may have a fine dust on her when looking at the correct angle and she has been scratching on the rocks and swimming into the wave maker so my concern is velvet. To add to the problem I already know that I have prazi resistant flukes as well. Hopefully I'm just being paranoid but I could really use some help setting up a treatment plan. If my new tank is not available today I'm going to get some other tanks somehow and get qt's set up for all the fish and begin a fallow period. I have copper power & a Hanna checker, CP, fenbendazole, API fungus cure, and a bunch of other meds on hand (I just don't have the tanks yet but will have something within a few hours.

Page 54 of this thread has the conversation between @ngoodermuth and myself. If she's not around right now I could really use some guidance from @HotRocks or @4FordFamily .

Thank you everyone!

Also, I already am aware that cp is not an option for the blue hippo or the wrasse I have