IMO - the flame angel already has too many trophonts on it for management to work. The propagule pressure itself becomes a stressors and overrides all of the management techniques.The third option is ich management.
Jay
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IMO - the flame angel already has too many trophonts on it for management to work. The propagule pressure itself becomes a stressors and overrides all of the management techniques.The third option is ich management.
Be certain the your specific gravity measuring device is VERY accurate, 1.008 can harm the fish and 1.010 may not cure the disease. You need to be spot on with 1.009Thank you all so much for the quick replies and help! I’m going to do a water change tonight and tomorrow to get the salinity down to 1.009. I added an air stone as well. I’m going to add carbon back to the filter for water clarity. I will continue feeding a variety of food with garlic, nori sheets and look into buying additional vitamins.
I defer to your expertise here SirIMO - the flame angel already has too many trophonts on it for management to work. The propagule pressure itself becomes a stressors and overrides all of the management techniques.
Jay
Ich is a protozoan and flu is a virus, you can’t make too many strong comparisons between them.I wouldnt even lower the salinity that much. Ich is like the flu to a human. A healthy human will fight it just like healthy fish will fight it. Keep the fish fed and happy and he will pull thru.
Dont mess around in the tank a bunch and be constantly smashin your face against the glass either. That is more stressors that will make it worse.
Just my opinion - when you see more than about 30 trophonts on a fish, the disease is about to enter the geometric progression phase and environmental control methods tend to fail. I can see more than 100 spots on the angel, so I think an active treatment is needed.I defer to your expertise here Sir
Virus, bacteria protozoan. All sickness. Most healthy species will fight sickness. Unless this fish is really old and on its last limbs a well fed stress free enviroment will help him fight it. Most of the time the cure is worse than the disease and make an already sick fish even sicker.
Op chose your path. There is only one way to learn in this hobby and thats trial and error. I use to go thru the stress.of pulling fish out and stick them in a hospital tank and throw copper in there only to have the fish die anyway. Then i figured just feed heavy and be chill on the tank for a week or so and fish always fought it. And the other fat and happy fish never aquired it.
Glad to hear it worked out.Figured I would throw an update out. I maintained 30 days of hypo 1.009. Added a submersible 18 watt UV sterilizer. Fed with Seachem metroplex/focus every other day. I am a heavy feeder btw. Started adding marine Vita Chem once per week to the tank and also every other day a few drops into some food. ICH seems to be gone and has not came back or affected any other fish. Flame Angel is still alive and seems much better. She does seem to be a finicky eater though so that’s a whole other issue I’m working on. But thank you for everyone’s help and advice!
Figured I would throw an update out. I maintained 30 days of hypo 1.009. Added a submersible 18 watt UV sterilizer. Fed with Seachem metroplex/focus every other day. I am a heavy feeder btw. Started adding marine Vita Chem once per week to the tank and also every other day a few drops into some food. ICH seems to be gone and has not came back or affected any other fish. Flame Angel is still alive and seems much better. She does seem to be a finicky eater though so that’s a whole other issue I’m working on. But thank you for everyone’s help and advice!