Brook ? please help

[daveM100]

Organi Cure, The active Ingredients are:

Copper 1.25%,
Fomaldehyde 17% in a tri-chelated form

will this work on brook?

 

[Newsmyrna80]

I wouldn't use it because copper does nothing to eradicate Brook so why needlessly expose a fish to something that will not help them. Also the formaldehyde is not the right dosage. I would try to get something else quickly and do FW dips in the mean time. The dips will knock back the parasite but not eradicate it. They will buy you a little time.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Organi Cure, The active Ingredients are:

Copper 1.25%,
Fomaldehyde 17% in a tri-chelated form

will this work on brook?

I would use quick-ich X which used to be sold as quick cure. It has more formaldehyde and only sells for $3.50 at fish stores.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Quick Cure is what I used to treat Brook.

 

[daveM100]

ok i'll look for quick cure, i couldnt find anything else with Fomaldehyde, the 2 lfs's here are not the best, they didn't even know what brook was! I don't understand how you can run a lfs thats strictly salt and not know these things, i was kinda ****ed lol. I didn't try petco or petsmart because well, they are petco and petsmart and i was trying to find something fast. The clown died, nothing would have stopped that, but the rest of the fish actually look good right now. The kole tang had a few patches but they are smaller and less pronounced. I was thinking that maybe the blenny that came with the sand was the carrier, he's been in the system the whole time with no other fish. And my cardinals were expecting and I didn't even know, the male spit out the eggs when i transferred him, sigh.

 

[ThRoewer]

Get a bottle of straight 37% formaldehyde. A pharmacy or even Wal-Mart may have it.

I use Formalin-MS. This you may find in a well stocked pet store.

 

[daveM100]

ok straight 37% formaldehyde is a no go, i called around and ppeople thought i was nuts lol, but i found quick cure, so i'm gonna try that. 90% water change then quick cure, fish seem to be doing fine so far we'll see how this stuff does.

 

[daveM100]

Just so i know for sure, brook doesn't affect my nems or inverts corect? And my corals should be fine also?

 

[Newsmyrna80]

Yes, inverts can not get Brook or any other vertebrate disease. Leave them in the tank while you treat the fish in a QT.

 

[daveM100]

Thank you just wanted to be sure