ReefOnTheBayou
Community Member
Good Sunday fellow reefers!
I knew this dreaded day would come and I would have a fish parasite or fish disease. 2 days ago I spotted the little white specks you see in the picture below. I went out that night after talking to some well respected people in the hobby and bought a 20 gallon high, Marineland filter, heater, bacteria, coppersafe and general cure. I will treat with coppersafe for 30 days then treat with general cure and let the tank go fallow for 76 days. I now have it all set up and ready to move my fish over. Thats where I realized I had another problem. I damaged my most loved hammer coral with the nets trying to catch the fish. A few tentacles popped and broke, I sure hope the regenerate and recover. I stopped before I caused more damage. I sat back and really thought hard about all this but I'm way too invested to give up now. I found tankmatez and it looked to be the perfect solution. I reached out to Nick with tankmatez mind you its Sunday afternoon and he never once hesitated to help me out. I now have the Orb MD on its way to help catch these fish without damaging everything further. The one fish that was showing signs is now not showing signs and all fish are eating well. I have 3 clowns, 2 royal grammas, 1 yellow watchman, 1 melanurus wrasse that i need to catch and put through treatment. I have the hannah checker coming in Tuesday to help keep the coopersafe level at 2.0. Humblefish has helped and other Facebook group reefers, alot of great people in this hobby and I couldn't do it without all of you! I'm at the mercy of catching the fish and moving them over to treatment and im praying the Orb MD from tankmatez will be the saving grace. The MD actually has a 10x viewing window that will allow me to inspect all the fish for any parasite or disease that way I know what I'm dealing with and which fish to observe the closest. I know time is of the essence and im racing against time. Im hoping I have all in treatment by Wednesday night. Please anyone with any tips or tricks they can pass along please do and I will keep everyone posted on the progress of qt and treatment with coppersafe and general cure. This will be the first time im tackling this and what I know I literally learned in a matter of a couple of days... this will hopefully give others in the hobby the confidence to tackle this. I was one that said I didn't have the means or the room for a qt tank and look at me now, I have a qt tank. There is always a way and I'm definitely going to qt here on out. I will report back and let everyone know how the new Orb MD works out for me soon as I get it and again special thanks to tankmatez, humblefish and the others that helped me along this journey. I have a long road ahead of me but I feel that I and anyone else for that matter can get through it by coming together and spreading knowledge and helping one another. I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their Sunday afternoon.
I knew this dreaded day would come and I would have a fish parasite or fish disease. 2 days ago I spotted the little white specks you see in the picture below. I went out that night after talking to some well respected people in the hobby and bought a 20 gallon high, Marineland filter, heater, bacteria, coppersafe and general cure. I will treat with coppersafe for 30 days then treat with general cure and let the tank go fallow for 76 days. I now have it all set up and ready to move my fish over. Thats where I realized I had another problem. I damaged my most loved hammer coral with the nets trying to catch the fish. A few tentacles popped and broke, I sure hope the regenerate and recover. I stopped before I caused more damage. I sat back and really thought hard about all this but I'm way too invested to give up now. I found tankmatez and it looked to be the perfect solution. I reached out to Nick with tankmatez mind you its Sunday afternoon and he never once hesitated to help me out. I now have the Orb MD on its way to help catch these fish without damaging everything further. The one fish that was showing signs is now not showing signs and all fish are eating well. I have 3 clowns, 2 royal grammas, 1 yellow watchman, 1 melanurus wrasse that i need to catch and put through treatment. I have the hannah checker coming in Tuesday to help keep the coopersafe level at 2.0. Humblefish has helped and other Facebook group reefers, alot of great people in this hobby and I couldn't do it without all of you! I'm at the mercy of catching the fish and moving them over to treatment and im praying the Orb MD from tankmatez will be the saving grace. The MD actually has a 10x viewing window that will allow me to inspect all the fish for any parasite or disease that way I know what I'm dealing with and which fish to observe the closest. I know time is of the essence and im racing against time. Im hoping I have all in treatment by Wednesday night. Please anyone with any tips or tricks they can pass along please do and I will keep everyone posted on the progress of qt and treatment with coppersafe and general cure. This will be the first time im tackling this and what I know I literally learned in a matter of a couple of days... this will hopefully give others in the hobby the confidence to tackle this. I was one that said I didn't have the means or the room for a qt tank and look at me now, I have a qt tank. There is always a way and I'm definitely going to qt here on out. I will report back and let everyone know how the new Orb MD works out for me soon as I get it and again special thanks to tankmatez, humblefish and the others that helped me along this journey. I have a long road ahead of me but I feel that I and anyone else for that matter can get through it by coming together and spreading knowledge and helping one another. I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their Sunday afternoon.
