Hey everyone,
First time posting so I hope this is the right place.
Recently experienced an outbreak of ich or velvet (not sure which) in my 120 gallon mixed reef. Lost 5 fish over the course of about a month (2 Tangs, Blue-spot jawfish, royal gramma, and swiss guard basslet.)
Finally set up a 15 gallon quarantine tank on Dec. 9 2021, caught my 2 clownfish that were heavily infected, put them in the QT and started treating with copper (cupramine).
After following directions, the Copper levels were at 0.4 for about a week and the clowns were miraculously doing great! No more spots, eating again, swimming happily, etc.
Did a normal 20% water change on 12/15/2021. Did not add more copper.
Came downstairs to feed them this morning (12/17/2021) and both were dead at the bottom of QT. Copper tested at 0.21 (It had dropped).
Other levels tested:
Salinity: 1.028
Copper: .21 (HANNA)
Kh: 7.6 (HANNA)
pH: 8.15
Nitrate: 5-10
Phosphate: 0.1
Ammonia: <.15
Not sure what killed my fish. Possible that the ich or velvet got them? They were looking SO MUCH better and eating and everything for over a week after losing all the white dots.
Also, the display tank still has several fish in it, and they have not contracted the disease AT ALL. Still have 3 reef chromis, 2 watchman gobies, a possum wrasse, and a leopard wrasse; all of which are acting normal and eating all sorts of frozen food.
What the heck is going on?
Thanks for your input.
-J
First time posting so I hope this is the right place.
Recently experienced an outbreak of ich or velvet (not sure which) in my 120 gallon mixed reef. Lost 5 fish over the course of about a month (2 Tangs, Blue-spot jawfish, royal gramma, and swiss guard basslet.)
Finally set up a 15 gallon quarantine tank on Dec. 9 2021, caught my 2 clownfish that were heavily infected, put them in the QT and started treating with copper (cupramine).
After following directions, the Copper levels were at 0.4 for about a week and the clowns were miraculously doing great! No more spots, eating again, swimming happily, etc.
Did a normal 20% water change on 12/15/2021. Did not add more copper.
Came downstairs to feed them this morning (12/17/2021) and both were dead at the bottom of QT. Copper tested at 0.21 (It had dropped).
Other levels tested:
Salinity: 1.028
Copper: .21 (HANNA)
Kh: 7.6 (HANNA)
pH: 8.15
Nitrate: 5-10
Phosphate: 0.1
Ammonia: <.15
Not sure what killed my fish. Possible that the ich or velvet got them? They were looking SO MUCH better and eating and everything for over a week after losing all the white dots.
Also, the display tank still has several fish in it, and they have not contracted the disease AT ALL. Still have 3 reef chromis, 2 watchman gobies, a possum wrasse, and a leopard wrasse; all of which are acting normal and eating all sorts of frozen food.
What the heck is going on?
Thanks for your input.
-J
