My turn on the merry go round. Looks like I’ll need to treat what I hope is Ich but based on the couple of images in the ID thread could be Velvet. Lights are out for the night and I will post images ASAP tomorrow. In the meantime I’d like to get some eyes on to start outlining a general plan. I will be taking Monday and Tuesday off to try and pull this off.
I believe this came in 9 or 10 days ago with the Spot Breast Angel. Aside from the visual spots/bumps none of the fish were acting oddly, hiding or flashing. Until UV lighting overwhelmed the blues late tonight I didn’t really see much of anything. With UV I saw spots on almost every fish I got a good look at. All are/were eating well and overall in great health prior to this showing up. I feed well with LRS and Mysis at a minimum once a day, usually twice along with Hikari pellets and some flake whenever i think to. I work from home often so they eat well, up to 4 times a day.
Ive never QT’d and need a good bit of guidance (Scold me Later).
I have a 40B, 18g cube, standard 10g and a 20ish gallon tub I sometimes use for water changes to work with. The 40B is currently running and I can quickly flip it into a hospital tank by removing all rock and sand. It has a sump, skimmer and loads of seeded bio media I do not care about trashing afterward. Enough media to get the other tanks going quickly too. I know its not ideal to do it this way but being that its the only way Ill really be able to setup 3 or 4 hospital tanks in a day i feel i need to go that route especially if it is Velvet. In fact I would even use the rock from this tank if need be and trash it afterward if thats going to be better.
Fish to treat: (An overwhelming number for a newb and some tricky according to what Ive read)
PBT
Yellow Tang
Spot Breast Angel
Long Nose Hawk
Sunburst Anthias
Red Mandarin
Saphire Damsels x2
Radiant Wrasse
Rose Band Fairy
Pintail Fairy
Crescent Tail Fairy
KwaZulu Fairy
Carpenters Flasher
Meds on Hand:
Ruby Reef Rally
Methylene Blue
PraziPro
General Cure
Kanaplex
Metroplex
Will have for Tuesday:
Hanna Copper Checker/Reagents: Overnight from BRS
Based on the little I know I’m assuming Copper of some sort to be my best bet for both Ich or Velvet? What’s my best and 2nd best option?
Ive read wrasse are trickier to treat with Copper but there’s been improvements with the Hanna? I separated them in case I need to treat differently or in a different level of copper.
What about the Mandarin? How to QT with no natural food source? This one does eat LRS, Mysis and Pellets but.....
How would you split these fish among the 3 tanks available? I will barely have room to do this as is so additional tanks aren’t really an option.
Monday will be spent getting tanks ready and getting a hold of whatever else I need.
Thanks in Advance!
@HotRocks @ngoodermuth
I believe this came in 9 or 10 days ago with the Spot Breast Angel. Aside from the visual spots/bumps none of the fish were acting oddly, hiding or flashing. Until UV lighting overwhelmed the blues late tonight I didn’t really see much of anything. With UV I saw spots on almost every fish I got a good look at. All are/were eating well and overall in great health prior to this showing up. I feed well with LRS and Mysis at a minimum once a day, usually twice along with Hikari pellets and some flake whenever i think to. I work from home often so they eat well, up to 4 times a day.
Ive never QT’d and need a good bit of guidance (Scold me Later).
I have a 40B, 18g cube, standard 10g and a 20ish gallon tub I sometimes use for water changes to work with. The 40B is currently running and I can quickly flip it into a hospital tank by removing all rock and sand. It has a sump, skimmer and loads of seeded bio media I do not care about trashing afterward. Enough media to get the other tanks going quickly too. I know its not ideal to do it this way but being that its the only way Ill really be able to setup 3 or 4 hospital tanks in a day i feel i need to go that route especially if it is Velvet. In fact I would even use the rock from this tank if need be and trash it afterward if thats going to be better.
Fish to treat: (An overwhelming number for a newb and some tricky according to what Ive read)
PBT
Yellow Tang
Spot Breast Angel
Long Nose Hawk
Sunburst Anthias
Red Mandarin
Saphire Damsels x2
Radiant Wrasse
Rose Band Fairy
Pintail Fairy
Crescent Tail Fairy
KwaZulu Fairy
Carpenters Flasher
Meds on Hand:
Ruby Reef Rally
Methylene Blue
PraziPro
General Cure
Kanaplex
Metroplex
Will have for Tuesday:
Hanna Copper Checker/Reagents: Overnight from BRS
Based on the little I know I’m assuming Copper of some sort to be my best bet for both Ich or Velvet? What’s my best and 2nd best option?
Ive read wrasse are trickier to treat with Copper but there’s been improvements with the Hanna? I separated them in case I need to treat differently or in a different level of copper.
What about the Mandarin? How to QT with no natural food source? This one does eat LRS, Mysis and Pellets but.....
How would you split these fish among the 3 tanks available? I will barely have room to do this as is so additional tanks aren’t really an option.
Monday will be spent getting tanks ready and getting a hold of whatever else I need.
Thanks in Advance!
@HotRocks @ngoodermuth
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