toeinthewater
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Hi All,
Newbie here, looking for some experienced eyes on my situation, and some guidance.
First, I am an american living in Cambodia, with my first saltwater setup (DT: ~100 gallon FOWLR with built-in sump, skimmer, UV, wet/dry) + (2 tomato clowns, scopas tang, 1 yellow dwarf angel). About 4 weeks ago i noticed white spots on my tang and angel. Pretty sure it was crypto. I moved them all to the QT and began hyposalinity. Would have considered copper, but could not find this here in Cambodia. within ~2days i could see no evidence of parasite. fish looked, ate avidly, and behaved well throughout. water parameters in DT and QT were great (0Amm/0Nitrite/0Nitrate,PH8.2). After 10 days i notice black spots on the tang. black ich! So i did freshwater baths with temp and pH matched water. once every three days x 3. black ich gone after the first bath. things were going fine. i was happy with myself. the fish were eating well, swimming around QT happily, breathing regularly, etc. Then ~5 days ago, the scopas starts floating to top, seemed distressed. looked like swim bladder syndrome. Decided to wait it out and did ~50% water change. Still, water parameters looked perfect. it seemed to resolve after 2 days (i decreased feeding a bit), then all 4 fish in QT started to be listless. At this point did another 50% water change, but fish were in a downward spiral. no visual evidence of disease that i could see on bodies, fins, or gills. Scopas and one clown died yesterday. I did another water change. Dwarf angel dead this morning. the last clown seems weak and i expect it to die today. Sad.
So does anyone have any ideas of what might have happened? they just seemed to crash and burn so quickly after looking pretty good for weeks. Any advice on how to figure out what went wrong or how to prevent it in the future?
Newbie here, looking for some experienced eyes on my situation, and some guidance.
First, I am an american living in Cambodia, with my first saltwater setup (DT: ~100 gallon FOWLR with built-in sump, skimmer, UV, wet/dry) + (2 tomato clowns, scopas tang, 1 yellow dwarf angel). About 4 weeks ago i noticed white spots on my tang and angel. Pretty sure it was crypto. I moved them all to the QT and began hyposalinity. Would have considered copper, but could not find this here in Cambodia. within ~2days i could see no evidence of parasite. fish looked, ate avidly, and behaved well throughout. water parameters in DT and QT were great (0Amm/0Nitrite/0Nitrate,PH8.2). After 10 days i notice black spots on the tang. black ich! So i did freshwater baths with temp and pH matched water. once every three days x 3. black ich gone after the first bath. things were going fine. i was happy with myself. the fish were eating well, swimming around QT happily, breathing regularly, etc. Then ~5 days ago, the scopas starts floating to top, seemed distressed. looked like swim bladder syndrome. Decided to wait it out and did ~50% water change. Still, water parameters looked perfect. it seemed to resolve after 2 days (i decreased feeding a bit), then all 4 fish in QT started to be listless. At this point did another 50% water change, but fish were in a downward spiral. no visual evidence of disease that i could see on bodies, fins, or gills. Scopas and one clown died yesterday. I did another water change. Dwarf angel dead this morning. the last clown seems weak and i expect it to die today. Sad.
So does anyone have any ideas of what might have happened? they just seemed to crash and burn so quickly after looking pretty good for weeks. Any advice on how to figure out what went wrong or how to prevent it in the future?
