jonnybravo22
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Background: I have had a reef running in some form for the last 10 years, through moves and new cycles etc. My primary focus over the years has been trying to keep SPS but lately I'm struggling with fish mortality. Tank is a 55g display + 70 gallon sump.
Over the summer (maybe 5 months ago) I had a mass die-off which claimed my clownfish pair, which I'd had for 9 years and 7 years respectively.
That new clown in particular displayed an illness I had never seen before (covered in white 'stuff', pale color, lethargic). I may have pictures somewhere but I'll have to look. Along with the clowns I lost a trio of ignitus anthias, a flame angel, a royal gramma, yellow coris wrasse, 3x chromis and melanarus wrasse. All this death happened within two weeks.
It happened at the same time that I started dosing vodka (within two weeks after I started) to try to do a homemade NoPox for an SPS strategy. I won't be doing that again... if I were to point a finger at something, the timing makes me feel like the dosing increased some probably pre-existing negative bacteria that caused infections in the fish and killed everything. Prior to dosing I did not notice any illness in the tank.
Anyways, that was quite a massive setback. I left the tank fallow for 4 months.
I have just started restocking the tank over the last month. I currently have a kole tang, coral beauty, lubbock's wrasse, argi angel, 2x chromis and purple firefish. All of these fish come from liveaquaria.
So here's my question: I have been watching these new fish closely. I noticed some flashing and white specs on fins so decided to act. I researched a few things (flukes, ich) and had prazipro on hand and since I have no corals in the tank currently, I went ahead and dosed the display with Prazi. After doing so, all fish in the tank were immediately more active swimmers. However, a week after that initial dosing, I see white spots emerging in greater numbers on some fish, particularly the kole tang, and feel that either a) another dose is needed, which is my current plan with a large water change this week, or b) prazi is not the medication needed / perhaps I need a better diagnosis. Either seem equally likely to me as I've read of people doing 3 rounds of prazi before it is all cleared up.
Here's a video, it's hard to see but the kole tang is starting to look more pale and has white objects attached to it, but they are more 'flowy' that 'sugar'. As it swims, I see the white things swaying in the waves a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DTM-y0KmiA
Appreciate any thoughts.
Over the summer (maybe 5 months ago) I had a mass die-off which claimed my clownfish pair, which I'd had for 9 years and 7 years respectively.
That new clown in particular displayed an illness I had never seen before (covered in white 'stuff', pale color, lethargic). I may have pictures somewhere but I'll have to look. Along with the clowns I lost a trio of ignitus anthias, a flame angel, a royal gramma, yellow coris wrasse, 3x chromis and melanarus wrasse. All this death happened within two weeks.
It happened at the same time that I started dosing vodka (within two weeks after I started) to try to do a homemade NoPox for an SPS strategy. I won't be doing that again... if I were to point a finger at something, the timing makes me feel like the dosing increased some probably pre-existing negative bacteria that caused infections in the fish and killed everything. Prior to dosing I did not notice any illness in the tank.
Anyways, that was quite a massive setback. I left the tank fallow for 4 months.
I have just started restocking the tank over the last month. I currently have a kole tang, coral beauty, lubbock's wrasse, argi angel, 2x chromis and purple firefish. All of these fish come from liveaquaria.
So here's my question: I have been watching these new fish closely. I noticed some flashing and white specs on fins so decided to act. I researched a few things (flukes, ich) and had prazipro on hand and since I have no corals in the tank currently, I went ahead and dosed the display with Prazi. After doing so, all fish in the tank were immediately more active swimmers. However, a week after that initial dosing, I see white spots emerging in greater numbers on some fish, particularly the kole tang, and feel that either a) another dose is needed, which is my current plan with a large water change this week, or b) prazi is not the medication needed / perhaps I need a better diagnosis. Either seem equally likely to me as I've read of people doing 3 rounds of prazi before it is all cleared up.
Here's a video, it's hard to see but the kole tang is starting to look more pale and has white objects attached to it, but they are more 'flowy' that 'sugar'. As it swims, I see the white things swaying in the waves a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DTM-y0KmiA
Appreciate any thoughts.
