cloudy eyes, stringy fins on flame angel

[skene]

My flame angel in QT started to come down with cloudy eyes and stringy fins overnight. The next day, yellow tang & copperband in the same system started getting cloudy eyes as well. Today, I found the copperband dead.

These guys have been already treated for over a month with chloroquine diphosphate and prazipro, in separate steps, already.

Any ideas what it could be? At first, I thought flukes but maybe bacterial infection? Scales on the flame do seem raised and "blotchy"

 

[Mrscribbled]

Most likely a bacterial infection, is ammonia at 0?

 

[skene]

Ammonia is at 0 -

Today, I'm noticing mucous slime over the flame's body and yellow tang found dead...this seems to kill the fish extremely fast. Flame angel also seem to be having trouble swimming upright. Am I also looking at velvet? Brooklynella? What treatment course would you recommend?

 

[Mrscribbled]

Hard to believe velvet or brook would show up after a CP treatment. For brook the best course to take is formalin baths. How is repiration on the fish?

 

[skene]

That's what I don't understand either. It surfaced after the CP treatment. I was running it at 50mg/g; could it have been too low to effectively treat it?

Breathing is extremely rapid at this time. Are there other symptoms I should be looking for to effectively determine whether it's a bacterial or parasitic?

 

[Deinonych]

50mg/gal should be sufficient for velvet. Not sure what the recommended dosage is for brooklynella.

 

[Mrscribbled]

80mg/g for brook.

 

[skene]

I started the QT back on 50mg/g of CP again before checking replies on this thread. To get it up to 80mg/g, would it be ok to dose 30mg/g worth on top of the current concentration?

I thought I read somewhere that CP loses its effectiveness after the first day and should not be dosed consecutively...but I might have misunderstood.

 

[skene]

Small update: I'm starting to get red slime algae on the bottom for some odd reasons. Could this be an indication that I'm having a bacterial infection?

Possible to mix CP & anti-bacteria meds?

 

[Mrscribbled]

I have mixed CP with nitrofurican green, Furan-2, Tripple sulfa, non had any adverse side effects.

 

[Mrscribbled]

I started the QT back on 50mg/g of CP again before checking replies on this thread. To get it up to 80mg/g, would it be ok to dose 30mg/g worth on top of the current concentration?

I thought I read somewhere that CP loses its effectiveness after the first day and should not be dosed consecutively...but I might have misunderstood.

CP no, QS yes.