swensos
Active Member
I've had terrible luck with flasher wrasses and lubbock's fairy wrasses in my QT. They eat well for a month or two, then one will hide for two days, breathe heavy, then die. Other fish and wrasse in the same tank will survive and move onto my DT.
I do thirty days of hypo (12 ppt) to treat ich/flukes in my well-established 20 long with cured rock, heater , ATO, and a koralia pump. I slowly lower and raise the salinity before and after the hyper using a drip change of heated water. I feed metro food for a week or two if I see symptoms of internal parasites. I have a thermometer and ammonia badge to monitor.
In every batch of fish, my flasher and lubbocks wrasses will be active and eating for even a month, then they kind of lay down and die two days later. Never at the same time. Sometimes they'll die weeks apart.
In the current batch, I had a blue flasher, mccoskers, lubbocks, and ruby-head. They've been in hypo for a little over 30 days. The lubbocks broke his back, so I put him in an acclimation box in the QT. He survived in there for more than two weeks while lying on his side, which is surprising, because if there was a disease in the tank, you would think he would die in a day or two, but he just kept living. While the lubbock's was slowly dying from not being able to catch food, my blue flasher suddenly started hiding. Two or three days later he was dead, no sign of any fin damage (lubbocks still alive). About a week later, a couple days after the lubbocks finally died from starvation, the mccoskers began to hide and stop eating. I've also never seen any aggression between the ruby-head and the mccoskers. The mccoskers actually used to chase the larger lubbocks and blue flasher, but only briefly.
I managed to catch the mccosker, who was laying on his side and breathing heavy (the koralia is pointed at the surface in the tank so I get a lot of gas exchange). Today, unsure of what to do, I gave him a 90 minute bath of Ruby Reef Rally. He seemed to become slightly more active during and after the bath.
I just finished the bath. Flukes and ich can't survive hypo. It's doubtful velvet would not show symptoms on any fish and take months to kill only flashers and lubbocks. Should I treat with the trifecta of antibiotics? Thanks for any help, sorry I included a lot of info. #reefsquad @Humblefish @melypr1985 @ngoodermuth @4FordFamily
I do thirty days of hypo (12 ppt) to treat ich/flukes in my well-established 20 long with cured rock, heater , ATO, and a koralia pump. I slowly lower and raise the salinity before and after the hyper using a drip change of heated water. I feed metro food for a week or two if I see symptoms of internal parasites. I have a thermometer and ammonia badge to monitor.
In every batch of fish, my flasher and lubbocks wrasses will be active and eating for even a month, then they kind of lay down and die two days later. Never at the same time. Sometimes they'll die weeks apart.
In the current batch, I had a blue flasher, mccoskers, lubbocks, and ruby-head. They've been in hypo for a little over 30 days. The lubbocks broke his back, so I put him in an acclimation box in the QT. He survived in there for more than two weeks while lying on his side, which is surprising, because if there was a disease in the tank, you would think he would die in a day or two, but he just kept living. While the lubbock's was slowly dying from not being able to catch food, my blue flasher suddenly started hiding. Two or three days later he was dead, no sign of any fin damage (lubbocks still alive). About a week later, a couple days after the lubbocks finally died from starvation, the mccoskers began to hide and stop eating. I've also never seen any aggression between the ruby-head and the mccoskers. The mccoskers actually used to chase the larger lubbocks and blue flasher, but only briefly.
I managed to catch the mccosker, who was laying on his side and breathing heavy (the koralia is pointed at the surface in the tank so I get a lot of gas exchange). Today, unsure of what to do, I gave him a 90 minute bath of Ruby Reef Rally. He seemed to become slightly more active during and after the bath.
I just finished the bath. Flukes and ich can't survive hypo. It's doubtful velvet would not show symptoms on any fish and take months to kill only flashers and lubbocks. Should I treat with the trifecta of antibiotics? Thanks for any help, sorry I included a lot of info. #reefsquad @Humblefish @melypr1985 @ngoodermuth @4FordFamily
