So here is my diary of my Achilles tang. How should I continue? Just keep keep following my plan?
8/30 Purchased and put in QT in copper power at 1.25
8/31 increased copper power to 1.82
9/1 7pm he started looking something might be wrong (marks on his body, tail fin missing a piece) and was swimming into the flow of the power head so I decided to dose the tank with Prazipro.
9/2 9pm the condition was the same and he was still eating fine.
9/3 5am same condition
9/3 4pm his eye looked terrible like it was peeling and something was in it. So I decided to do a freshwater dip (5mins), during the dip a fluke popped off / out of his eye. No other flukes were found. When I saw how bad his eye was I panicked and dosed the tank with Metro.
9/4 5pm ammonia was raising so I did a 50% water change with the new water at 1.80 copper power. I also dosed with Kanaplex.
9/6 looks like he is losing his eye but he is still eating and his skin is looking healthy. dosed a 2nd round of Kanaplex.
9/7 Tested copper with the hanna and it was reading 3.59 and 3.6 I assume because of the other medications changing the color of the water giving false readings.
9/8 second dose of Prazipro.
9/9 eating well pretty sure he will lose his eye. over all looking healthy and acting normal
9/10 eating well still looking healthy and eating well.
So the rest of my plan is:
9/15 to transfer him out of copper to a new QT tank and treat with 2 rounds of GC 7 days apart.
What else should I do? should I plan to transfer him to the DT after 30 days in QT still? For a total of 14 days copper, 2 rounds of Prazipro and 2 rounds of GC.
See attached pictures of progression.
9-1 his body had some marks on it and wasnt looking good
9-2 his eye was normal
9-3 his eye was horrible this was right before the FW dip
Pic Fluke is the Fluke that popped out of his eye
9-9 his eye looks lost but healing
9-10 his eye looks lost but healing different angle.
He is hard to take pictures of because he keeps his good eye on me and the bad one away from me.
8/30 Purchased and put in QT in copper power at 1.25
8/31 increased copper power to 1.82
9/1 7pm he started looking something might be wrong (marks on his body, tail fin missing a piece) and was swimming into the flow of the power head so I decided to dose the tank with Prazipro.
9/2 9pm the condition was the same and he was still eating fine.
9/3 5am same condition
9/3 4pm his eye looked terrible like it was peeling and something was in it. So I decided to do a freshwater dip (5mins), during the dip a fluke popped off / out of his eye. No other flukes were found. When I saw how bad his eye was I panicked and dosed the tank with Metro.
9/4 5pm ammonia was raising so I did a 50% water change with the new water at 1.80 copper power. I also dosed with Kanaplex.
9/6 looks like he is losing his eye but he is still eating and his skin is looking healthy. dosed a 2nd round of Kanaplex.
9/7 Tested copper with the hanna and it was reading 3.59 and 3.6 I assume because of the other medications changing the color of the water giving false readings.
9/8 second dose of Prazipro.
9/9 eating well pretty sure he will lose his eye. over all looking healthy and acting normal
9/10 eating well still looking healthy and eating well.
So the rest of my plan is:
9/15 to transfer him out of copper to a new QT tank and treat with 2 rounds of GC 7 days apart.
What else should I do? should I plan to transfer him to the DT after 30 days in QT still? For a total of 14 days copper, 2 rounds of Prazipro and 2 rounds of GC.
See attached pictures of progression.
9-1 his body had some marks on it and wasnt looking good
9-2 his eye was normal
9-3 his eye was horrible this was right before the FW dip
Pic Fluke is the Fluke that popped out of his eye
9-9 his eye looks lost but healing
9-10 his eye looks lost but healing different angle.
He is hard to take pictures of because he keeps his good eye on me and the bad one away from me.
