Sorry to hear about your difficulties. Hope all goes well.
Thanks Eric...things are looking up.
Oh man, that sounds challenging. I hope the treatment goes well. Please continue to report on your progress. Cheers.
It's been rough. My nerves are pretty shot at this point. No losses so far :spin1:
Tuesday night I did a water change and the salt had mixed funky and calcified pretty bad. By the time I had noticed the extent of the situation I had already changed out 20g and probably botched the pH+Alk of the tank.
I know for a fact it was a majorly stressful even for the fish and I freaked out. I completely panicked. I knew that I had to basically just sit down and hope for the best at that point because I didn't want to play around with anything more than I already had and risk stressing the fish more.
So I poured a few stout glasses of whiskey and went to bed extremely nervous and anxious and drunk.
Yesterday was one of the worst days I've had in the hobby. I woke up to every fish in the aquarium showing ICH. Like humane society images bad. The fish looked helpless and sick. I was really uncomfortable but I went ahead and dosed slowly over an hour to bring the Cu to 0.5ppm. The male filefish had ICH all over his fins and face. I thought I'd lose him for sure.
I dosed a full dose of Brightwell Aquatics Vitamin-C and hoped for the best. I fed Nutramar Ova and Salmon but the male did not eat much. The female has been eating fine.
Needless to say I watched my fish fight off death yesterday and I did not enjoy it.
This morning I had to get to work early and just checked the tank recently. No visible ICH on anyone, anywhere, whew.
Curse words...the good kind.
The male filefish is still not eating like I would like but he has plenty of weight to get him through this 0.5ppm Cu level at least for a few more days. I'll lower it to 0.35ppm for the remainder of the treatment because he was eating reasonably well at that concentration.
All my other fish are eating fine and behaving naturally.
As long as I can be diligent for another 3 weeks I will make it out of this in fantastic shape with all my fish healthy and a completely ICH free DT.
Let's just hope Mr. OSFF gets hungry.