GroktheCube
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You might want to consider posting that pic and your description in the disease forum.
Mysterious Fish disease in LFS
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ironwill723
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That looks more like velvet or brook to me. I've had much success with Chloroquine phosphate in my store's fish system with live rock and sand. Just make sure you get genuine chloroquine phosphate powder from a vet pharmacist or similar. You can check out the CP thread in the disease section here on RC. If you need a good contact for genuine CP powder I can help as well. Good luck.
RoTTen2TheCore
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Hmmm interesting. Did a little research on it and it would seem that I only have access to CP in pill form with a prescription from a vet, which is not a problem. Can I crush the pills and use that?
Ironwill, pm me the info for the powder, I would love to look into it. Keep in mind, I am in Canada, so I am not sure if I can ship drugs across the border.
Ironwill, pm me the info for the powder, I would love to look into it. Keep in mind, I am in Canada, so I am not sure if I can ship drugs across the border.
ironwill723
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Sent you a PM with info.
It's readily soluble, so that shouldn't be a problem.
saveafish
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BAD BAD BAD, Very bad... As a former Marine dist owner. Never keep live sand and live rock with your live stock in the store. It is nothing more than breeding ground for the cooties. You might have got an affected fish in months ago. Eggs and cyst could have found its way into the rock for hatching and changing stages. Even with a ton of UV, you got to remember it has to move through the UV for it to be killed. If it has a good home with sand and LR why not stay in tank and grow into the problems it is made to do. I seen it happen many times. It always happens when you think every thing is going perfect. There can be a delay up to months after a affected fish passed through your system.
Just remember if you treat the fish you still have to treat the LR and LS or it will keep coming back if it is a parasite.
Don't get me wrong; this is excellent advice (from a disease control standpoint). The problem is customers don't really get excited about a bunch of fish in a bare bottom, rock-less tank. You lose a lot of "impulse buys" going this route.
saveafish
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Very true. But is it better to have healthy fish and loose the impulse buy or a tank of livestock people say ewww what wrong with it and not get the angel of their dreams that is in the same tank. It is a very hard balance to hold.
That also reminds me all the PIMA times I had to move rock to catch that perfect fish, you know the net getting caught on the rocks and making a mud bath with all the sand .
Unfortunately, most LFS owners I know (or have known) live hand to mouth. They need those foolish impulse buys just to stay afloat. Hell, I still do it myself sometimes - after over 35 years in the hobby & business. Just recently I paid $20 for a blue linckia I know is unlikely to survive long-term in my tank. Why did I do it? Because it was "fun" and a challenge.
A nice display tank is great way to stimulate those impulse buys, while keeping your sales stock tanks set up in better ways for disease control. Keeping the fish in tanks without inverts so they can be treated if necessary, and keeping inverts in seperate systems can work well...even from a sales perspective, some conversation with customers on the reasons for such set ups can go a long ways to gaining respect and customer loyalty if your also providing them with quality livestock 
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