Steve_B
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I have a 225 fish only, true fish only no living rock, just fish. Iââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢m presently treating my entire display tank with hypo for crypto. It is absolutely Crypto. I used copper about a month or so ago but didnââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t complete the .15 for a full 14 days because the fish were showing too much stress. I went about 10 days, crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. I stopped it short because it appeared the stress was too much. Now the crypt came back, and worse then the first outbreak obviously.
I started using hypo at .09, on 4/6/2006 when it hit 09. About a day or so down to the .09 after spending 4 days at .09, my queen Angel was showing obvious signs of major improvement. It would rush up to the side of the tank when I walked into the room, just as it always has done before. I did many huge water changes before treating at all, to see if that would help. I would say I changed 200% of the water in my 225gal tank in 2 months. The queen was showing signs of what I thought was HLLE in its face at the same time as the crypto outbreak. I attributed it to all of the stress, and being off of its sponge and veggie food. I have turned HLLE around in the past with a proper diet, but I couldnââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t get this queen to eat what it needed. What I thought was HLLE; I now believe it to be brook. Erosion from HLLE will be seen as a deepening corrosion of tissue, not raised patches that my queen angel is showing on its face now. It has some raised scales as well. My tusk now has a protrusion (about 3 times the size as 1 crypto cyst). The angel was eating like a horse, and foods it wouldn't eat before the hypo began, so the hypo has apparently improved the crypto problem. The crypto symptoms are not visible at this point, but my queen has gone back to its lethargic just hanging around in one place behavior. Itââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s still eating well, but I donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t expect that to last much longer. My plan now is to put the queen in my hospital/quarantine tank, which hasn't had a fish in it for over a month; I didn't expect hypo to have any effect on brook, which as I said, I thought was HLLE. Brook responds to formalin baths. I have several questions regarding this whole thing, if anybody here has any experience with a dual outbreak like this. All of my water parameters are where they are supposed to be, except the 09 water, which you could probably drink itââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s so weak. LOL, Itââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s just a matter of dealing with 2 diseases simultaneously. Can I treat with formilan while doing hypo at the same time, without pushing the queen over the edge? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I started using hypo at .09, on 4/6/2006 when it hit 09. About a day or so down to the .09 after spending 4 days at .09, my queen Angel was showing obvious signs of major improvement. It would rush up to the side of the tank when I walked into the room, just as it always has done before. I did many huge water changes before treating at all, to see if that would help. I would say I changed 200% of the water in my 225gal tank in 2 months. The queen was showing signs of what I thought was HLLE in its face at the same time as the crypto outbreak. I attributed it to all of the stress, and being off of its sponge and veggie food. I have turned HLLE around in the past with a proper diet, but I couldnââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t get this queen to eat what it needed. What I thought was HLLE; I now believe it to be brook. Erosion from HLLE will be seen as a deepening corrosion of tissue, not raised patches that my queen angel is showing on its face now. It has some raised scales as well. My tusk now has a protrusion (about 3 times the size as 1 crypto cyst). The angel was eating like a horse, and foods it wouldn't eat before the hypo began, so the hypo has apparently improved the crypto problem. The crypto symptoms are not visible at this point, but my queen has gone back to its lethargic just hanging around in one place behavior. Itââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s still eating well, but I donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t expect that to last much longer. My plan now is to put the queen in my hospital/quarantine tank, which hasn't had a fish in it for over a month; I didn't expect hypo to have any effect on brook, which as I said, I thought was HLLE. Brook responds to formalin baths. I have several questions regarding this whole thing, if anybody here has any experience with a dual outbreak like this. All of my water parameters are where they are supposed to be, except the 09 water, which you could probably drink itââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s so weak. LOL, Itââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s just a matter of dealing with 2 diseases simultaneously. Can I treat with formilan while doing hypo at the same time, without pushing the queen over the edge? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
