I've been battling a blue jaw trigger going on two weeks not that isn't eating. I've tried every food imaginable and he hasn't touched anything. I did get a female shortly a week ago, and she is eating and all the other fish are eating fine. The Male blue Jaw began to have a stringy substance coming off of him, that looked like he was shedding for lack of a better word. I've talked to several people on the this and they seem to think it's a bacterial infection or parasite. What has me even more worried is now the female trigger that shared a cave with the male hasn't came out all day, so now I think she might have whatever it is. I thought I was dealing with Flukes because of the lethargy of the trigger and also my blue tang was starting to scratch on the rocks. Since I have a 220 and I figure that all the fish could be infected now, and to try to catch the blue jaw would stress him out more I decided to treat the whole tank with Prazipro. I haven't really noticed any results, although it's only been one day. I tang isn't scratching though but now the male and female are both locked in their cave toward the back of the glass. I can't even see the female but the male I can see, and he is breathing. My other option is I bought some "Quick Cure" from a LFS and I'm tempting to dose my tank with it. my setup is fish only but it does have 400 pounds of live rock that is over 5 years old in the total system. The "Quick Cure" says not to be used on live rock, so I'm assuming it's going to kill all the beneficial bacteria on my rock. I just can't decide if I should do it to try to possibly save these two triggers. It just sucks because it's a Hawaiian blue jaw and that was the one fish that I wanted bad for this new tank. I've also had two other new fish that I've bought that have died with in a day of getting them in the tank. One was a christmas wrasse and the other a raccoon butterfly. What do you guys think I should do? I will just say I'm not interested in trying to catch the fish and treat him. All the rock I'd have to move out and I know it would just stress the heck out of him, cause I'm not very good at catching them. So I guess my three options are
1. let the prazipro go it's 3-5 days and possibly treat again.
2. Treat the whole tank with quick cure and wipe out all my biological filtration, and still could possibly still lose the triggers
3. Say heck with it and let it run it's course and we will see what happens.
I know one thing I'm going to be dipping all new fish in a bath of medications for 15 to 20 min before entering my display or set up a QT.
1. let the prazipro go it's 3-5 days and possibly treat again.
2. Treat the whole tank with quick cure and wipe out all my biological filtration, and still could possibly still lose the triggers
3. Say heck with it and let it run it's course and we will see what happens.
I know one thing I'm going to be dipping all new fish in a bath of medications for 15 to 20 min before entering my display or set up a QT.
