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Thank you I will treat the tank again for ick and parasites also get the garlic to help with my pods thank you!!I bought one about a year ago. he went first to quarantine where I saw the mucus on his body. I did not see any parasites but because I had some I treated the tank with "ICK ATTACK" by Kordon. they are picky eaters so I added some selcon and garlic extract to the pods I was feeding. he did heal up and is doing fine in the display tank now. hope this helps
When I first got him I got two (they were in separate tanks) the first one started having the mucus like this one and then with in two days he had so much mucus that it was coating his eyes and they were white? Which is why I am very concerned for this one. He was very skinny when I got him and it took him a few days before he would even look for food now he does go around the rocks and "peck" around but as far as knowing if he's actually getting food when he does that honestly I'm not 100% sure.Is he eating? The photo isn't good enough, but looks like his belly is deflated, indicating he hasn't been eating.
First thing is to get him to eat, preferably fatty acids like Selcon, mentioned above. Start with live brine shrimp until he starts biting frozen mysis.
For how long is it happening? I had multiple healthy dragonets to change colors temporarily, usually to a faded coloration. It stays like this for a couple of hours and get back to its original color.
OK so this is what I have for parasites and ich since a smaller dragnet gave ich to my clownfish... should this be good enough? Also knowing they're sensitive should I use half of each dose because he is sensitive even though bottle says in prolonged cases I could even use 50-100% over the recommended doseIn my experience, mandarin gobies are very sensitive to medications. That being said, mine will be treated for ich before ever going in my display tanks. I have WAY too many expensive and fragile fish to risk bringing in parasites. Especially after treating them all and going through the time and effort to prevent it thus far.
I would guess that a mandarin could handle 10 days of cupramine (slowly increased to .5 ppm) and then two or three transfers of the ttm method.
That's minimal copper exposure and should take care of velvet, ich, and several others. On transfer one and three I would treat with prazi. That adds flukes, black ich, and intestinal parasites.
Humblefish won't endorse this method yet, but it was his creation and it's genius. 10 days of copper, and one transfer is his suggestion. Which should work fine. I would do more than one transfer because I imagine many are using crappy tests for copper, aren't monitoring it correctly, and there are a lot of margins for error with copper use. Hypo even more so, and it does nothing for velvet.
In my experience, mandarin gobies are very sensitive to medications. That being said, mine will be treated for ich before ever going in my display tanks. I have WAY too many expensive and fragile fish to risk bringing in parasites. Especially after treating them all and going through the time and effort to prevent it thus far.
I would guess that a mandarin could handle 10 days of cupramine (slowly increased to .5 ppm) and then two or three transfers of the ttm method.
That's minimal copper exposure and should take care of velvet, ich, and several others. On transfer one and three I would treat with prazi. That adds flukes, black ich, and intestinal parasites.
Humblefish won't endorse this method yet, but it was his creation and it's genius. 10 days of copper, and one transfer is his suggestion. Which should work fine. I would do more than one transfer because I imagine many are using crappy tests for copper, aren't monitoring it correctly, and there are a lot of margins for error with copper use. Hypo even more so, and it does nothing for velvet.
Sorry it was supposed to attach this picIn my experience, mandarin gobies are very sensitive to medications. That being said, mine will be treated for ich before ever going in my display tanks. I have WAY too many expensive and fragile fish to risk bringing in parasites. Especially after treating them all and going through the time and effort to prevent it thus far.
I would guess that a mandarin could handle 10 days of cupramine (slowly increased to .5 ppm) and then two or three transfers of the ttm method.
That's minimal copper exposure and should take care of velvet, ich, and several others. On transfer one and three I would treat with prazi. That adds flukes, black ich, and intestinal parasites.
Humblefish won't endorse this method yet, but it was his creation and it's genius. 10 days of copper, and one transfer is his suggestion. Which should work fine. I would do more than one transfer because I imagine many are using crappy tests for copper, aren't monitoring it correctly, and there are a lot of margins for error with copper use. Hypo even more so, and it does nothing for velvet.
Any ideas how to encourage them to start eating other food because I've dropped it right in front of him and he just looks and swims away...I would first try to get the fish to eat frozen food and pellets.
Putting it in a sterile quarantine , with medication, won't do him any good if he is starving. IMO, it will only accelerate his death.
Also, dragonets are very hardy when it comes to ich, they are usually the last ones to show white spots, because they have the ability to release the mucus to get rid of parasites. The photo also doesn't show any white spots.
Any ideas how to encourage them to start eating other food because I've dropped it right in front of him and he just looks and swims away...
Yeah its not during the day just either when I move them (streesed) or like you said when I turn my lights on or off.Are you seeing the loss in color and excess mucous coming off at night or first thing in the morning? Mandarins secrete mucous at night and may look pale when the lights are off (or when they first come on.)