schafon
Active Member
Hi everyone!
I recently had an outbreak of ick or velvet + what looks like bacterial infection in my display after getting new fish.
(White spots on some of the fish, scratching on rock, black areas on fish tail, white fungal like growth)
I've managed to get some extra time to setup the hospital tank by using Polyp Lab Medic, but it wasn't enough to keep the white spots away.
I've removed all fish that can be treated with copper and put them in my old 120G and raised copper slowly to 1.94 (the fish look very good now, no spots, all active).
The reason I didn't go above 2.0 is that I have a 6 line wrasse in there and I was advised not to go beyond 2.0.
I also have 2 target mandarin and Green Spotted Puffer (acclimated from fresh water a long time ago) that I want to treat (Currently in a different tank 40G).
I was thinking of doing a Hybrid TTM but I'm not sure if the puffer and dragonets will tolerate it.
I plan on moving the wrasse that is currently in copper to the other tank with the puffer and mandarin so I can increase the copper to 2.3, but I want to have a plan before doing so.
I've noticed that the puffer was not doing so well lately (even before I moved him to the 40G) I'm not sure if this got anything to do with my water quality, stress from moving tanks or a disease.
He has less appetite, I've caught him sleeping on the sand with his tail wrapped on the side of his body, scared of me, hiding, dark belly most of the day, not active as always.
I understand that puffers and dragonets have more resistance to ick and velvet, is that true?
My question is, what would be the best plan of action to treat those hard to treat fish? I'm going fallow on my DT and don't want to introduce possible parasite hosts back after all that.
Side story about the puffer:
I've upgraded my tank from 120G to a new 200G and on the first day of setting the tank I used a pump as a power head, the pump had a round 1/2 inch inlet.
While working on things I've noticed that the pump was not pushing water, I took a closer look and found out that the puffer was sucked in the inlet, only half of his 1/3 of his body was showing, he looked dead and inflated.
I've turned off the pump, blow air in the outlet to push him out and he fall to the sand on his back breathing heavily still inflated where his body was outside the pump, I was convinced I lost him, I've considered euthanasia, but every time I've checked on him he looked me in the eyes and gave me hope.
After couple of hours I've saw him swimming, 2 days later and he was acting completely normal and eating
Thanks!
I recently had an outbreak of ick or velvet + what looks like bacterial infection in my display after getting new fish.
(White spots on some of the fish, scratching on rock, black areas on fish tail, white fungal like growth)
I've managed to get some extra time to setup the hospital tank by using Polyp Lab Medic, but it wasn't enough to keep the white spots away.
I've removed all fish that can be treated with copper and put them in my old 120G and raised copper slowly to 1.94 (the fish look very good now, no spots, all active).
The reason I didn't go above 2.0 is that I have a 6 line wrasse in there and I was advised not to go beyond 2.0.
I also have 2 target mandarin and Green Spotted Puffer (acclimated from fresh water a long time ago) that I want to treat (Currently in a different tank 40G).
I was thinking of doing a Hybrid TTM but I'm not sure if the puffer and dragonets will tolerate it.
I plan on moving the wrasse that is currently in copper to the other tank with the puffer and mandarin so I can increase the copper to 2.3, but I want to have a plan before doing so.
I've noticed that the puffer was not doing so well lately (even before I moved him to the 40G) I'm not sure if this got anything to do with my water quality, stress from moving tanks or a disease.
He has less appetite, I've caught him sleeping on the sand with his tail wrapped on the side of his body, scared of me, hiding, dark belly most of the day, not active as always.
I understand that puffers and dragonets have more resistance to ick and velvet, is that true?
My question is, what would be the best plan of action to treat those hard to treat fish? I'm going fallow on my DT and don't want to introduce possible parasite hosts back after all that.
Side story about the puffer:
I've upgraded my tank from 120G to a new 200G and on the first day of setting the tank I used a pump as a power head, the pump had a round 1/2 inch inlet.
While working on things I've noticed that the pump was not pushing water, I took a closer look and found out that the puffer was sucked in the inlet, only half of his 1/3 of his body was showing, he looked dead and inflated.
I've turned off the pump, blow air in the outlet to push him out and he fall to the sand on his back breathing heavily still inflated where his body was outside the pump, I was convinced I lost him, I've considered euthanasia, but every time I've checked on him he looked me in the eyes and gave me hope.
After couple of hours I've saw him swimming, 2 days later and he was acting completely normal and eating
Thanks!
