at first i thought it was just little bubbles that appeared on the fish(all damsels) because they would disappear later but then i started noticing a white haze thats when two fish died now this morning another died. what should i do? i have a 20 gal tank i can quaranteen them(5 fish left) in but what medication should i use? while in quaranteen should i run my biofilter with activated carbon?
ich epidemic
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shawna1972
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Yes get them into Qt
Get cupramine it's safer but make sure you have no uv running and do not use any water conditioners other than stability >per seachem and also it will throw your ammonia tests off so use a stick on ammonia alert it detects free ammonia ,keep up with water changes but If you choose to do cupramine I would dose by the Ml instead of drops. > Im in the process as we speak and had to call seachem they also rec doing it by Ml. Im using a salifert copper test kit I guess it's easier to read than seachem but any of the 2 will work.
Hope this helps
and sorry about your fish
good luck
Get cupramine it's safer but make sure you have no uv running and do not use any water conditioners other than stability >per seachem and also it will throw your ammonia tests off so use a stick on ammonia alert it detects free ammonia ,keep up with water changes but If you choose to do cupramine I would dose by the Ml instead of drops. > Im in the process as we speak and had to call seachem they also rec doing it by Ml. Im using a salifert copper test kit I guess it's easier to read than seachem but any of the 2 will work.
Hope this helps
and sorry about your fish good luck
shawna1972
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Oh yeah I forgot> No carbon
to late for quaranteen al but two fish died but i figured out that the fish were not dieing from ich the lfs looked at em and i showed pics of the crabs that were eating em the crabs are stone crabs and theye were releasing eggs and probably casualties to them protecting the eggs, plus ive seen the crabs activly chase the fish and the two that are alive have scars on their back fin from when the crabs grabbed em, other than that theye look absolutely healthy. i need to get rid of the crabs soon
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