Uronema clean up

[cadroved67]

Hi,
I upgraded my tank and put a new fish in to cycle. The fish ended up having uronema. I threw away sand and bleached the tank, equipment and rocks. My question is sitting the rocks in a bucket of bleach water enough? I did not use a powerhead as there wasn’t enough room in the bucket. I let them soak for 24 hours then in fresh with prime for almost 48 hours. Now I’m gonna let them dry for about a week. Do you think that’s enough to get rid of the disease. It is all new rock so no dead stuff in it.

 

[lkc]

How To - Sterilize + reseed any tank

** IMPORTANT ** Use cheap "dollar store" bleach that only contains sodium hypochlorite. (Pay attention to the % of sodium hypochlorite the bottle contains for dosing purposes.) AVOID "Splash-Less" bleach or products which contain other ingredients, such as surfactants/cleaning detergents. The...

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Absolutely.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Hi,
I upgraded my tank and put a new fish in to cycle. The fish ended up having uronema. I threw away sand and bleached the tank, equipment and rocks. My question is sitting the rocks in a bucket of bleach water enough? I did not use a powerhead as there wasn’t enough room in the bucket. I let them soak for 24 hours then in fresh with prime for almost 48 hours. Now I’m gonna let them dry for about a week. Do you think that’s enough to get rid of the disease. It is all new rock so no dead stuff in it.

The thing about Uronema is that it is ubiquitous, you can isolate it from almost every established aquarium. It only becomes infective under certain circumstances, especially with newly acquired chromis, wrasse and anthias. There are whole groups of fish that never have a problem with it (clownfish, angelfish and some others).
If you are positive of your diagnosis, there really isn't any need to sterilize things, it is just going to return at some point. I avoid it by not buying cheap anthias or green chromis or yellow coris wrasse. I can avoid about 80% of the issues right there....

Here is an article I posted about it:

Uronema / Red Band Disease - Hemdal

Red Band Syndrome in Marine Fishes: Caused by the Protozoan; Uronema sp. Jay Hemdal Introduction: This moderately common disease of certain species of marine fish is so often misdiagnosed that most aquarists apply incorrect treatment methods...

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Jay