After 8 weeks fallow my fish have again started showing symptoms of a parasite. Ugh... I'm not pulling them out of the display. HT is too small and the Picasso trigger just goes after everyone else making it more stressful. I don't know what they have. Flukes, ich? Tank inhabitants are Foxface, Clowntrigger, and Picasso trigger, hermit crabs and CC starfish. 135 gallon cube aquarium. I dosed with prazi last night. The clown trigger is the only one showing signs. His eyes are cloudy, shakes his head, flashes than hides in the rocks triggered in. He's still eating very well. I have CP instead of copper. I just want whatever it is gone in my display! Can I dose prazi and CP together? Will it affect the inverts? I also have a 46 gallon reef that was left fallow the same time. Everything is perfect in there. I'm seriously thinking about getting rid of the cursed tank. Any help would be appreciated.
Treating in display
- Thread starter mssamurai
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Had an outbreak of something. Removed all my fish and treated in HT and left display empty for 8 weeks. I lost all my fish but 2 and they are in the 46 gallon doing fine. The new fish I put in QT for 4 weeks before introducing them to display. There is just something lurking in my display. Could it be bacterial and not a parasite? Whatever the case is I want to treat in display.
Let's go step by step on this. The one that's showing the symptoms is the clown, cloudy eyes, etc, sounds far more like a bacterial infection. If he's been treated for parasites, it still won't get the bacterial problem...which can't be treated in the dt, because antibiotics kill the sand bacteria. Isolate him, treat him with a broad-spectrum (gets both of 2 classes of bacteria) antibiotic (no carbon, which removes meds) and see if that helps. If your other fish show no symptoms, treat them with something like Selcon (wouldn't hurt the clown either) to help their immune systems, and just hope the bacterium is not going to manifest in them.
This is my guess as to what's going on. Anybody with a contrary idea chime in, but the cloudy eyes are generally a 'tell' for bacterial problem. Going further shouldn't be necessary if he's the only one that has it.
This is my guess as to what's going on. Anybody with a contrary idea chime in, but the cloudy eyes are generally a 'tell' for bacterial problem. Going further shouldn't be necessary if he's the only one that has it.
Thank you guys so much for trying to help. Okay the current fish in the tank were never treated for parasites. I lost all my previous guys to what I suspect was ich. My survivors are in a different tank doing great after copper treatment. They were all placed in QT but not treated, just observed. I introduced them one at a time. Picasso, Foxface and then clown. For all I know it's ich again. The clown does look to have the salt look and looking at my Foxface he may have a few on his face. I don't see anything on the Picasso but he is lighter in color. The tank has a history... I heard that Chloroquine Phoshate will not affect the biological filter. Will it kill my inverts if I do treat in display? The fallow thing didn't work the first time and I really just want to get rid of it in display.
Breakthecycle2
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If you didn't treat the new fish in QT, then there is a very high probability they were carrying a parasite.
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