Mrs. Music
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The white spots on the angel appeared several days after the low water level incident. Thanks for the advise everyone, I can appreciate you all taking an interest in helping a fellow hobbyist. I'll keep updating progress.
Chloraquine phosphate treatment
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Mrs. Music
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All the fish appear healthy and are eating well. The white spots did not re-appear and I never saw any other signs of distress, so I did not retreat the water. I started water changes and started running the water thru a carbon/filter floss cartridge. Only a few more weeks to go! Yeah!
Mrs. Music
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It is funny, because, I said treatments tanks stink being grumpy about the work, and worry that goes into them, but you took it literally. I now realize the fish room was smelly but I chalked it up the extra humidity. It is a basement. Now the fish room does not smell at all, so the denaturing CP must have been causing it. Learn something new everyday! Thanks!
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Though I'm still trying figure out this smell concept of figuring the CP is denatured. I once had to treat 4,000 gallons worth at one time, never smelled a thing other than the typical damp wet lab smells. Though it's possible after years of sniffing bad gas, carburetor cleaner (in my boat mechanic days) and years in a wet lab, my sniffer isn't so good.
Deinonych
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Recently, I removed CP with my UV sterilizer alone, without running carbon. After several hours, the tank water yellowed and had the smell of an aromatic organic compound (that's the best I can describe it - it wasn't harsh like benzene, but it had a similar type of smell). Needless to say, the fish in the QT were not thrilled, so I ran carbon immediately to clear up the smell and the yellow tint.
Mrs. Music
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I can not believe 4 days ago I posted all was well. Since then the yellow eyed kole tang died, and today the queen angel has a wound on her side. I am about to just give up. I started adding DT water to the treatment tank. I will watch for signs of ich and if all seems well I am putting them back. This whole process has sucked big time.
Mrs. Music
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Today the wound on the angel is nearly invisible. Hopefully she heals heals and can go back into the tank very soon.
Mrs. Music
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I just wanted to share that all of the fish are still with me and "knock on wood" never had another problem with fish illness.
SecretiveFish
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Excellent news OP!
My indigo hamlet succumbed to a secondary infection after I was done treating marine velvet with Ick Shield (CP) for the recommended 21 days. Also during the course of treatment, I lost my flame hawkfish although I am not sure if the velvet weakened him too much or what.
Fish treated successfully with Ick Shield include: four clownfish, a royal gramma, a longnose hawkfish, a marine betta, and a tomini tang.
My indigo hamlet succumbed to a secondary infection after I was done treating marine velvet with Ick Shield (CP) for the recommended 21 days. Also during the course of treatment, I lost my flame hawkfish although I am not sure if the velvet weakened him too much or what.
Fish treated successfully with Ick Shield include: four clownfish, a royal gramma, a longnose hawkfish, a marine betta, and a tomini tang.
Has anyone had experiences using Dr. G's frozen anti parasitic food? It lists the main ingredient as Chloraquine phosphate and my LFS has seen improvement to a purple tang in QT that was almost completely covered in ick (one of the worst cases I've seen). A week or so later and it has improved a lot.
Visible signs of ich come and go as the life cycle progresses; as such improvement is somewhat illusory as the visible signs of ich recede in 3-7 days.
This is a complete waste of money. My fish would not touch it, even when I mixed it with other foods. It will not cure crypto anyway.
I agree. Some fish can have temporary "immunity" that keeps the infestation subclinical.
deleau
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@Mrs. Music I'm glad all is well.
@SecretiveFish I've had a secondary casualty as well while treating with Ick Shield. I've found that if I can get fish eating regular pellets then they will take the Ick Shield.
I feel good about having another tool (CP) in the toolbox to fight against these kind of infections.
@SecretiveFish I've had a secondary casualty as well while treating with Ick Shield. I've found that if I can get fish eating regular pellets then they will take the Ick Shield.
I feel good about having another tool (CP) in the toolbox to fight against these kind of infections.
Actually, about 5% of fish can develop temporary (six month) immunity to some parasites but they still are carriers of it.
Mrs. Music
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Well, my fish had no visible signs or symptoms of ich for years. They were living with a chronic condition and appeared to be thriving. Everytime I added new fish,even after a QT period of 1-2 months they broke out in white spots. One or two got thru it to become long term residents but others suffered. Finally had to accept it was my tank, not the fish. I just got tired of it and decided to take action. I really wanted more fish! LOL! After all that I only have 2 new fish since then.
Mrs. Music
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Thank you! Sorry I never saw this.
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