Hey everyone,
I've seemed to have gotten passed my 4th day curse, by adding a ~6 week quarantine/arrival process.
now, I've come across another snag, my latest purchase (a coral beauty & purple dottyback) only made it to week 3, the coral beauty developed what looked like pop eye (swollen eye, followed by a cloudy eye) I was attempting to treat it, when both the coral beauty and purple dottyback develop a white fungus like coating (i'm assuming its velvet)
the purple dottyback was gone this morning, and i don't think the coral beauty will be swimming when i return tonight.
I've got Polyblab's Medic, Prazi-Pro and Cupramine on order.
1. What else should i get to treat this in the future?
2. This is the first time I've experienced an disease type issue, I've only been using this type process, to make sure the fish are eating, and to slowly raise the salinity and ph to match my DT ~6 to 7 weeks, nothing else has ever shown any signs of anything. What should I be pre-treating during this time?
3. How does everyone clean there quarantine tanks & equipment after an outbreak like this? Between uses, I drain the tank, let everything sit dry for 2 weeks or so, when i start it back up for my next use I add 1 gallon of tank water ~9 gals of ro water, and a few guppies (i have a small FW tank and they bred like crazy) I bring the salinity up to my DT, the guppies go to my sump, i remove 1/3 to half and add fresh RO water, which brings this tank to about 1.020 and i go to the LFS (I then adjust the salinity to match the bag from the LFS). Is there something else I should be doing to clean everything?
Sorry for all the questions,
and thanks for the help.
Anthony
I've seemed to have gotten passed my 4th day curse, by adding a ~6 week quarantine/arrival process.
now, I've come across another snag, my latest purchase (a coral beauty & purple dottyback) only made it to week 3, the coral beauty developed what looked like pop eye (swollen eye, followed by a cloudy eye) I was attempting to treat it, when both the coral beauty and purple dottyback develop a white fungus like coating (i'm assuming its velvet)
the purple dottyback was gone this morning, and i don't think the coral beauty will be swimming when i return tonight.
I've got Polyblab's Medic, Prazi-Pro and Cupramine on order.
1. What else should i get to treat this in the future?
2. This is the first time I've experienced an disease type issue, I've only been using this type process, to make sure the fish are eating, and to slowly raise the salinity and ph to match my DT ~6 to 7 weeks, nothing else has ever shown any signs of anything. What should I be pre-treating during this time?
3. How does everyone clean there quarantine tanks & equipment after an outbreak like this? Between uses, I drain the tank, let everything sit dry for 2 weeks or so, when i start it back up for my next use I add 1 gallon of tank water ~9 gals of ro water, and a few guppies (i have a small FW tank and they bred like crazy) I bring the salinity up to my DT, the guppies go to my sump, i remove 1/3 to half and add fresh RO water, which brings this tank to about 1.020 and i go to the LFS (I then adjust the salinity to match the bag from the LFS). Is there something else I should be doing to clean everything?
Sorry for all the questions,
and thanks for the help.
Anthony