Kensington Reefer
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Or try the above recommendation with the peroxide
It’s your call, you’re the bus driver
It’s your call, you’re the bus driver
I agree on this one; hydrogen peroxide was what I used to give the fish more time to live when I encountered that problem. I also did a freshwater dip, which gave me enough time to set up a quarantine tank with copper.Looks like velvet to me given the amount of coverage and powdered sugar appearance.
Marine Velvet Disease
Marine Velvet Disease (Amyloodinium ocellatum) - Updated 6-9-2023 What You Need To Know: * Fast killing parasite capable of wiping out most of your fish in just a matter of days. Sometimes there are survivors, sometimes not. * Dips/baths which can provide temporary relief for velvet (in order...humble.fish
Like what @richiev said, likely all your systems are affected given aerosols, your hands, shared buckets, etc.
Look into the hybrid tank transfer method in that thread with hydrogen peroxide for fast response to give the fish a chance to live.
Gotta be careful with fish from questionable places in the future. Long road ahead to treat this properly.
Agreed. Putting fish through quarantine is super easy. I have a 10 gallon from Petco which I use to quarantine. The QT provides a chance for new fish to fatten up before they go into the main tank.My thoughts are treat all surviving fish with copper in hospital tanks even if they don't show symptoms. Let all other tanks go fallow for 76+ days at 78 degrees or higher. (Don't forget to occasionally feed the tank.) After the fallow period transfer your fish back into the tanks. Going forward put all new fish through copper treatment and observation before adding them to your tanks, or just buy all future fish from High Tide or any other reputable source that does a proper quarantine of fish. If the new fish can't tolerate copper then tank transfer method or just don't buy the fish. That's my preference anyway. I am not a fan of the "all tanks have ich" school of thought.
Too hard to tell at this point, but it was the only fish that looked slightly odd. I equated it to stress at the time, how they change colors until comfortable. But there is no way for me to say the events are connected though I suspect it's highly likely given all fish died in 2 different tanks 3 feet apart with in days of each other. Atlas only speculation on my part. Meanwhile all crabs and snails are fine.I am very sorry about all of these livestock losses. I lost track a bit but was the Foxface the potential host of the disease?
Where was the fish from?Too hard to tell at this point, but it was the only fish that looked slightly odd. I equated it to stress at the time, how they change colors until comfortable. But there is no way for me to say the events are connected though I suspect it's highly likely given all fish died in 2 different tanks 3 feet apart with in days of each other. Atlas only speculation on my part. Meanwhile all crabs and snails are fine.
Stock tank fishWhere was the fish from?
Which LFS? This is probably patient zero.Stock tank fish
5 were from a memebers tank break down, one from another member, 4 others I had for 7/8months.
The other 3 tangs were recently aquired from group buy and a lfs.
Which LFS? This is probably patient zero.
From Dr reefs?I went through a tank wipe out a little over two years ago when I started up my 180g. All the fish had come from a QT vendor, but something slipped through. No guarantees even from QT. It really sucks! I hope you are able to salvage something from this.