Mr. Brooks
Active Member
@Humblefish
I’ve been searching the internet for days trying to find the answer to a mystery illness in my tank.
My tangs have been afflicted with cloudy eyes initially, then deteriorated fins, excess mucus on the skin/lips as well as some minor scratching. I also noticed one of the Naso tang’s eyes appearing to be swollen or popped out slightly. At one point there appeared to be flakes hanging off of the eyes. I’ve seen symptoms in varying degrees in most of my tangs. But the Naso and chocolate tang seem to have the worst symptoms.
I thought the symptoms pointed to flukes so I dosed prazi. I did two doses, 5-7 days apart as recommended and it seemed to work! But around 6 days after the first treatment, the symptoms returned.
I did another two dose treatment. But once again on Sunday the symptoms returned. So I dossed prazi again for the fifth time. I’m currently three days in on the latest dose and the symptoms are mostly gone again. I say mostly because the Naso tang’s eyes have never 100% cleared up. A slight cloudiness in at least one eye has yet to fully disappear.
At this point I have all my tangs in a seperate tank that is connected to the main system.
There are three royal grammas and two lawnmower blennies in the display tank that are impossible to catch without destroying my Acropora reef.
The only recent additions to my tank without QT were a handful of coral frags a couple months ago and I run an overkill UV sterilizer.
Yesterday I began panicking thinking it’s velvet, and that the prazi is somehow suppressing it. But this seems unlikely as I cant find any instances of this ever happening anywhere on google.
The fact that the prazi removes symptoms tells me I’m on the right track, right? Should I do a three dose treatment 5 days apart?
Or is it possible that it’s bacterial? Have you ever heard of prazi suppressing bacterial symptoms?
I have yet to find an actual oval shaped opaque fluke with the naked eye. Even after a freshwater dip.
The prazi has done a number on my corals. I’m dealing with secondary issues like spiked phosphate and lowered ph. I can isolate the tank that the tangs are in to treat separately, but I can’t catch the other small fish in the display. So I’m assuming it’d be pointless to treat the tangs separately without running the display totally fallow. The only benefit is that I could experiment with treatments without harming my corals. But I assume I would eventually need to treat the rest of the system or catch and QT the smaller fish.
I’m hoping you can give me some guidance on the best course of action. Thank you in advance.
I’ve been searching the internet for days trying to find the answer to a mystery illness in my tank.
My tangs have been afflicted with cloudy eyes initially, then deteriorated fins, excess mucus on the skin/lips as well as some minor scratching. I also noticed one of the Naso tang’s eyes appearing to be swollen or popped out slightly. At one point there appeared to be flakes hanging off of the eyes. I’ve seen symptoms in varying degrees in most of my tangs. But the Naso and chocolate tang seem to have the worst symptoms.
I thought the symptoms pointed to flukes so I dosed prazi. I did two doses, 5-7 days apart as recommended and it seemed to work! But around 6 days after the first treatment, the symptoms returned.
I did another two dose treatment. But once again on Sunday the symptoms returned. So I dossed prazi again for the fifth time. I’m currently three days in on the latest dose and the symptoms are mostly gone again. I say mostly because the Naso tang’s eyes have never 100% cleared up. A slight cloudiness in at least one eye has yet to fully disappear.
At this point I have all my tangs in a seperate tank that is connected to the main system.
There are three royal grammas and two lawnmower blennies in the display tank that are impossible to catch without destroying my Acropora reef.
The only recent additions to my tank without QT were a handful of coral frags a couple months ago and I run an overkill UV sterilizer.
Yesterday I began panicking thinking it’s velvet, and that the prazi is somehow suppressing it. But this seems unlikely as I cant find any instances of this ever happening anywhere on google.
The fact that the prazi removes symptoms tells me I’m on the right track, right? Should I do a three dose treatment 5 days apart?
Or is it possible that it’s bacterial? Have you ever heard of prazi suppressing bacterial symptoms?
I have yet to find an actual oval shaped opaque fluke with the naked eye. Even after a freshwater dip.
The prazi has done a number on my corals. I’m dealing with secondary issues like spiked phosphate and lowered ph. I can isolate the tank that the tangs are in to treat separately, but I can’t catch the other small fish in the display. So I’m assuming it’d be pointless to treat the tangs separately without running the display totally fallow. The only benefit is that I could experiment with treatments without harming my corals. But I assume I would eventually need to treat the rest of the system or catch and QT the smaller fish.
I’m hoping you can give me some guidance on the best course of action. Thank you in advance.
