TLDR version at end.
300g Had like 11 fish. Suffered an outbreak of Ick but now thinking brook/velvet with maybe still a side order of ick. Symptoms seemed to fit more than one disease.
Basically everyone got white haze to their skin, but some of the others it was more the small white spots. Even clowns had it. Later the tang who had seemed to get over it and in hospital with everyone else re-broke out instead looked like kinda dark welts or places skin was kinda flaking up.
I had started TTM, but after day 4-5 with not much sign of improvement and already losing 2-3 fish, I decided to try Ick-x since it was some formulin (couldnt find pure formulin) and had malachite blue or green. Didn't help that I was having to do >50% water changes every 12 hours basically due to ammonia.
After day 1 seemed like maybe symptoms slowed but coming home on day 2 I had 4-5 dead fish. At that point I threw my hands up as this certainly wasn't working for them and put the survivors back in the display to hope they fight it off on their own.
It seems to have worked. H. Tusk spent several days just laying on the sand refusing to swim, horrible color, fins being eaten by pods. Tried force feeding and later it finally ate a couple peices of mysis and gradually improved.
He looks pretty good now, some residual blemish from sloughed skin on forehead, some fins still regrowing out. The other survivors a mono argentus, foxface, leopard wrasse, zebra bar goby.
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Now that I dont know for sure what they had. I imagine I need to run the tank fallow for 2 months or so. (Recatch will be fun.) The tusk still shows some signs of itching (jerking head or rapidly spinning a fin)
Aside from running fallow, since I'll have the time for a well established hospital tank, I'm not sure what to do. Now that I have few fish, try TTM all over. Run hypo?
Order Chloroquine Phosphate? Except I saw some saying dont use with wrasse (tusk/leopard, but I dont have flasher/fairy like some seemed to point as the senstive ones)
What to do?
300g Had like 11 fish. Suffered an outbreak of Ick but now thinking brook/velvet with maybe still a side order of ick. Symptoms seemed to fit more than one disease.
Basically everyone got white haze to their skin, but some of the others it was more the small white spots. Even clowns had it. Later the tang who had seemed to get over it and in hospital with everyone else re-broke out instead looked like kinda dark welts or places skin was kinda flaking up.
I had started TTM, but after day 4-5 with not much sign of improvement and already losing 2-3 fish, I decided to try Ick-x since it was some formulin (couldnt find pure formulin) and had malachite blue or green. Didn't help that I was having to do >50% water changes every 12 hours basically due to ammonia.
After day 1 seemed like maybe symptoms slowed but coming home on day 2 I had 4-5 dead fish. At that point I threw my hands up as this certainly wasn't working for them and put the survivors back in the display to hope they fight it off on their own.
It seems to have worked. H. Tusk spent several days just laying on the sand refusing to swim, horrible color, fins being eaten by pods. Tried force feeding and later it finally ate a couple peices of mysis and gradually improved.
He looks pretty good now, some residual blemish from sloughed skin on forehead, some fins still regrowing out. The other survivors a mono argentus, foxface, leopard wrasse, zebra bar goby.
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TLDR
Now that I dont know for sure what they had. I imagine I need to run the tank fallow for 2 months or so. (Recatch will be fun.) The tusk still shows some signs of itching (jerking head or rapidly spinning a fin)
Aside from running fallow, since I'll have the time for a well established hospital tank, I'm not sure what to do. Now that I have few fish, try TTM all over. Run hypo?
Order Chloroquine Phosphate? Except I saw some saying dont use with wrasse (tusk/leopard, but I dont have flasher/fairy like some seemed to point as the senstive ones)
What to do?
