Bad Fish Week For Me
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fastrc
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I only got 2 fish survive out of the same diseased fish tank. I know how you feel and you know im 100% the same as you since we both got the reaming from the same person. Give tank 8 weeks and start over, Make sure you keep quarantine tank running all the time and dip corals also. Hope you get it going again strong I'm 100% satisfied with my new turnout except i got a rabid rabbitfish that ate all my polyps/zoa's so im in the process of restocking all my zoa colony's. Glad you found that local 20 gallon.
badazztealcobra
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I'm hoping that's a typo and your cupramine level isn't at a 2.5, you want it at a .5 level for 14-21 days to be effective (some people say 14 days, if you can pull off 21 you'll have an even better chance of success).
Anything over .8 is extremely toxic
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums...ents/23130-copper-treatment-use-problems.html
Always QT your own fish no matter what people said they did..... I QT all my fish and I would still tell people to QT the fish again if they got it from me.
vlamingitang
In Memoriam
so much for copper
SkullV
They Got My Number
Good catch. 0.25 is the level measured with a Seachem copper test. EVERYTHING is getting QT from here on out. I am going to get another QT setup with a clamp on MH for new coral so they can go 8-10 weeks in a fishless tank as well.
SkullV
They Got My Number
I have seen copper work before many times. The copper wasn't even up to the reccomended level yet when the fish died. It has only been 3 days. The issue is simply that I let the disease get out of hand in the hopes that the "fish would fight it off" and they could not.
Pufferpunk
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Are you adding VC for this last fish? Get the levels up to 100ppm , 2x/day ASAP.
badazztealcobra
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I did a little looking around and in the first post made by the guy you both got the fish from it says "in the interest of full disclosure I had one ich outbreak about one year ago."
That alone screams "Please QT all fish bought from me !!!" to me.... So I don't know if I'd say you got a reaming from someone, you should've QT'ed everything especially after reading that......
Hopefully the remaining fish pull through for the both of you though....... :thumbsup:
Also hoping that everyone else that bought are using QT procedures....
SkullV
They Got My Number
I guess I must have missed that and either way I shouldn't have just trusted what he said in person with so much at stake. At least fish are replaceable as terrible as that seems. The trigger is still alive, certainly not happy, but alive. Tonight at around 10pm I'll add the a little more cupramine to get it up to the therapeutic level. Hopefully I don't lose anything else. Only time will tell.
ALSO I am not blaming the person I got the fish from. This is my fault. Everything else that ever went in the tank was fully QT and it was stupid of me not to QT this fish as well.
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badazztealcobra
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Hopefully he pulls through for you..... Are you still thinking about shutting it down and just sticking with the nano even if he makes it ???
SkullV
They Got My Number
If he makes it I'll keep the FOWLR up. I love the fish, he is easily my favorite, and the fact that he is "invert safe" opens up some options to me.
I really want him to pull through. He is looking OK today so we'll see what happens.
foursquare
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good luck to the you and your trigger
DoubleM 10
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hey man sorry to hear about the bad luck
i think everyone hits a point like this at some point. i had one last year so i can kind of undertand
i think everyone hits a point like this at some point. i had one last year so i can kind of undertand
SkullV
They Got My Number
I've lost all hope. Between the last post and this post he died. This is a 100% tank loss from Crypt. Here is some info for future people who see some spots on their fish. TREAT IMMEDIATELY. I waited weeks hoping the problem would go away, it did not.
The FOWLR and everything associated with it will be up for sale by tonight. I am going to keep around 40-50lbs of rock and the rest is going to be for sale.
This is the most depressing day in my 13 years of fish keeping.
The FOWLR and everything associated with it will be up for sale by tonight. I am going to keep around 40-50lbs of rock and the rest is going to be for sale.
This is the most depressing day in my 13 years of fish keeping.
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Pufferpunk
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OMG, I'm so sorry. 
I'd leave that tank fallow for a few months before selling anything from it.
I'd leave that tank fallow for a few months before selling anything from it.
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