What am i missing

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Cupramine is ionic copper, and is more toxic to both fish and parasites, so it is used at a lower dose. It should still be dosed at 0.50 ppm for 30 days, 21 days at the very least.

If these lesions showed up while the fish was in full Cupramine, you can rule out ich or velvet. Brooklynella would have affected the clownfish. That leaves flukes as a possibility.

Do you happen to have a microscope? Doing a skin scrape is one way to confirm flukes.

Another way is to give the fish a 5 minute freshwater dip. Then, using a magnifying glass, look for flukes in the dip water.

 

[doc_145]

And how long now have the clowns been ok?

Clowns have been good for a tad over 30 days now in dt

 

[doc_145]

Cupramine is ionic copper, and is more toxic to both fish and parasites, so it is used at a lower dose. It should still be dosed at 0.50 ppm for 30 days, 21 days at the very least.

If these lesions showed up while the fish was in full Cupramine, you can rule out ich or velvet. Brooklynella would have affected the clownfish. That leaves flukes as a possibility.

Do you happen to have a microscope? Doing a skin scrape is one way to confirm flukes.

Another way is to give the fish a 5 minute freshwater dip. Then, using a magnifying glass, look for flukes in the dip water.

Thanks kinda where I'm at....does flukes affect body or are they just in gills. He passed so kinda outta luck in testing further with him.

 

[Lavey29]

Clowns have been good for a tad over 30 days now in dt

Can you take a couple pics of them?

 

[doc_145]

Can you take a couple pics of them?

Best I can get they're pretty active lol

 

[Lavey29]

Best I can get they're pretty active lol

Seem normal looking to me

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Thanks kinda where I'm at....does flukes affect body or are they just in gills. He passed so kinda outta luck in testing further with him.

There are gill flukes and two types of skin flukes.

 

[Lavey29]

There are gill flukes and two types of skin flukes.

Does flukes stay in the tank after the infected fish is removed thus requiring a fallow period to? Can't you treat flukes with prazi?

 

[ejsanchez92399]

Yes, we need some input from Jay please!!!!

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Does flukes stay in the tank after the infected fish is removed thus requiring a fallow period to? Can't you treat flukes with prazi?

With the three common types of flukes, two are egg layers. The unhatched eggs remain in the tank after moving the fish out, so can reinfect fish if they are added back in too soon. Time to hatching is variable, both by species and water temperature. I like to wait 30 days minimum (60 days if ich is suspected).

I just wrote up a sheet on using prazi to treat flukes:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/dosing-praziquantel-pzq.1105700/

 

[CatBag]

You mention losing fish to the same symptoms so it's either your qt tank that is infected and needs to be torn down dried out and refilled without the rock and sand if you don't already do that every qt or if you order from the same vendor each time it might be time to find another vendor. Salt water fish are expensive losing fish over and over to qt hurst even if your nearest fish shop is hours away id say it's worth the drive to go see the fish in person and pick things up. Easier to find the source then deal with the problem from what your saying losing fish even after being treated with copper.