Quick help needed, Kole dead during TT, making sure HPBT is ok.

[DasCamel]

Ok

Ok

Your kole will be fine if u add it later. Its from a seperate family and they dont look alike.

Thanks

 

[DasCamel]

Ok, update time.

The HPBT is doing great and is in the main tank. TT worked fine with him and I also treated hi with Prazi just to be on the safe side. Divers Den does a spectacular job sending strong healthy fish it seems. He was used to mysis and quickly developed a ferocious appetite for seaweed.

I have another Kole Tang that just finished TT method and is in the QT with Prazi, zero issues.

Lesson learned here, probably best to do TT method with just one fish. I'm thinking both, in a tight space was a bit excessive, but the TT works great w/o meds. I feed before the transfers a ton, excess didn't matter they were being moved anyway.

Thanks for the help everyone.

 

[ca1ore]

Although I personally don't do TT (mainly for logistics reasons), a number of very capable, experienced reefers I know swear by it. Sometimes fish just die, and the reasons are often not clear. Glad your second Kole is good.

 

[snorvich]

As a prophylactic methodology for ich (and only ich), tank transfer will result in 100% success rate with healthy fish. I agree only one fish at a time is desirable. Any other prophylactic methodology has a risk (be it chloroquinine phosphate, hyposalinity, or copper) because for ich, the first part of the life cycle is highly predictable from a time perspective, whereas the back end of the life cycle is not. The timing of theront emission is highly variable, normally up to 28 days, but depending on strain of cryptocaryon irritans, it has been known to take up to 72 days. Theronts are the vulnerable part of the life cycle and are killed by chloroquine phosphate, copper if it is at a therapeutic level, or hyposalinity if it is a 1.009 SG. An average life cycle appears to be 1 to 2 weeks; however, life cycle durations may range from 6 days to 11 weeks, primarily because of the unpredictability of tomont development (Colorni and Burgess 1997; Dickerson 2006; Yambot 2003). Virtually noone keeps fish in a prophylactic quarantine that long, and few keep it for 35 days which would be the requirement to kill theronts in the normally occuring time frame. Whereas with tank transfer, 12 days and you are 100% certain to eliminate ich (cryptocaryon irritans) This is why we see anecdotal cases where "quarantine" for ich is unsuccessful.