nothingfishy
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Hey guys.
Over the past few months I lost a few fish due to flukes, confirmed via freshwater dips and seeing flukes fall off. About 2 months ago, I prazi pro'd my tank, and since then, have not seen any flukes via freshwater dips, or cloudy eyes, like they used to get.
Right after this, my Achilles tang, and aussie tusk, showed signs of ich, so I used cupramine in the tank, monitored levels daily, for a month, and Saturday, did a 80 gallon water change, and the the next day sunday, did another 80 gallon change. I have also used carbon and a poly pad, and my copper level is a light shade of blue, which according to seachem chart, is less than .05.
Yesterday, my yellow tang had red lines and blotches, symmetrically on both sides. I read up on this, and it says it is caused by bacteria, or bad quality water. But considering I just did 50 percent water changes, back to back, my water is pretty good I feel. 0 amm, 0 nitrite, 20 nitrates.
I still have yet to put my uv light on, as I am waiting for copper to read zero. The only thing I have done differently this week, is I used some microbacter 7, to help any bacterial I may have lossed through copper usage.
Has anyone heard microbacter doing anything like this? Also, as far as tang goes, should I just feed heavy greens, vitamin soaked Mysis, or does he need to come out into antibiotics?
Thanks in advance.
Quick stats: 150 gallon tank, oversized skimmer, 80 lbs live rock, 1.022 sg, 81 degrees F, ph 7.8.
Over the past few months I lost a few fish due to flukes, confirmed via freshwater dips and seeing flukes fall off. About 2 months ago, I prazi pro'd my tank, and since then, have not seen any flukes via freshwater dips, or cloudy eyes, like they used to get.
Right after this, my Achilles tang, and aussie tusk, showed signs of ich, so I used cupramine in the tank, monitored levels daily, for a month, and Saturday, did a 80 gallon water change, and the the next day sunday, did another 80 gallon change. I have also used carbon and a poly pad, and my copper level is a light shade of blue, which according to seachem chart, is less than .05.
Yesterday, my yellow tang had red lines and blotches, symmetrically on both sides. I read up on this, and it says it is caused by bacteria, or bad quality water. But considering I just did 50 percent water changes, back to back, my water is pretty good I feel. 0 amm, 0 nitrite, 20 nitrates.
I still have yet to put my uv light on, as I am waiting for copper to read zero. The only thing I have done differently this week, is I used some microbacter 7, to help any bacterial I may have lossed through copper usage.
Has anyone heard microbacter doing anything like this? Also, as far as tang goes, should I just feed heavy greens, vitamin soaked Mysis, or does he need to come out into antibiotics?
Thanks in advance.
Quick stats: 150 gallon tank, oversized skimmer, 80 lbs live rock, 1.022 sg, 81 degrees F, ph 7.8.
