Should I go fallow for 10 weeks or quit and sell everything?

[Missoula Sherry]

I'm so bummed my Kole tang died last night. I don't know what killed him and I don't what to do.

5/30 Kole tang went into quarantine tank.
6/1 Tang was eating so I started PraziPro treatment
6/12 Ended PraziPro treatment. Did a water change and added carbon to filter.
6/16 6:10am moved tang to new "aquarium". 1st tank transfer
6/19 2nd tank transfer. Cleaned equipment with 10% bleach and let dry.
6/22 3rd tank transfer. Again cleaned equipment.
6/25 4th tank transfer so I put tang in DT.
Regular weekly 10% water changes.
7/13 Water change by someone else with questionable equipment
7/22 Tang quit eating
7/23 Tang not eating but hiding. Pectoral fins look milky with a few spots. Fish gilling rapidly.
7/23 Tang dead.

Water parameters on 7/20. SG a little high at 1.027, no ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate. Calcium 420 ppm, KH a little low at 7dKH, magnesium 1410 ppm, and phosphate .02 ppm. pH 8.01

My first 3 surviving fish weren't quarantined and I've lost a royal gramma and a longnose Hawkfish. I'm guessing I need to go fallow for 10 weeks but at this point I'm not sure it's Ich and not something else.

Any feedback would be appreciated. I don't want to keep killing fish and am pretty bummed.

 

[degibson84]

When I couldn't beat ich I just went full blown reef. No fish just inverts and corals.

 

[MrTuskfish]

7/13 Water change by someone else with questionable equipment

This is probably the cause. Symptoms and timing sound like it could be velvet, even brooklynella.

 

[MrTuskfish]

When I couldn't beat ich I just went full blown reef. No fish just inverts and corals.

Sorry to hear it. Ich isn't hard to beat, especially if you start on the right track on day one.

 

[Breadman03]

Run the tank fallow. In 6 weeks, get some new livestock and begin a QT procedure. I would start with tank transfer, then either observe or medicate prophylactically. After your DT is fallow for 10 weeks and your QT'd fish are healthy, introduce them to the DT.

 

[Missoula Sherry]

I've been on the pity pot until I read the previous post. Yee gods, that reefer has gone through hell. Some of the comments reinforce my commitment to using tank transfer rather than copper.

Thanks for the input. Sometimes I get so frustrated with this hobby. It's nice to have somebody respond.

I'm setting up my QT again and plan to quarantine my fish and let my DT go fallow for 10 weeks.

Thanks,
Sherry

 

[jjk_reef00]

All the fish you describe should have no problem with cupramine if ramped up over 4-7 days, and I prefer that over tank transfer. If you are going to use TT I strongly recommend placing the fish into an observation tank for 2-6 weeks after. When I had ich in my DT I went fallow for 12 weeks just to be sure.

 

[sleepydoc]

7/13 Water change by someone else with questionable equipment

This is probably the cause. Symptoms and timing sound like it could be velvet, even brooklynella.

+1 that's a pretty aggressive course for ich. My guess is that they either had velvet or had it introduced by some infected equipment.

I had a similar situation after buying some fish several months ago. I took solace in the fact that it was just my QT that got infected. The next round went much better. The hard part is not inadvtently cross-contaminating equipment.