Trying to save a watchman goby from Petco, please help

[Zorba2.0]

I picked this guy up last weekend from Petco when they had a buy one get one half off marine fish. This store has had a pretty bad reputation with the health of the fish they get. Either they ****ed off the person the picks their shipment or they just have bad luck. They had a large powder blue tang that had velvet all over it and quite a few tangs with ich.

Anyway, I bought this "yellow watchman goby", which I believe is a blue spotted watchman and a fire fish. The fire fish was quarantined and deemed healthy so he is now in my main tank. I picked this goby though because he was so sad looking at the store that I had to save him. I thought he might have just had fin rot but I'm not sure what caused his red sores. He was in a tank with a bunch of emerald crabs, but I don't think they'd beat up on him that bad? Unless he had other tank mates that were bought before I got there.

I am currently treating him with Melafix. 1 tsp a day added to my 10 gallon QT. He is more active than when I first got him but he doesn't eat in front of me. When I check on him he has moved around and food seems to be getting eaten. I am feeding frozen krill, brine shrimp and mysis. Any suggestions, tips, or info would be much appreciated.


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[Louis Z]

Petco is not the only one. I see it in 4 different local fish stores. I just told a lfs owner that the Maldives clowns they had were infected with brook. He said he has got a lot of stuff in the back and he will use nitrofurazone. :fun2: I even offered to go and get chloroquine from home to help save him . He said he will take care of it. I asked if he had formalin or formaldehyde to dip him in. I didn't even see the other Maldives clown. So I guess he already died. . When he got them I asked asked How much and then he said not for sale. He is the same one that went looking for the rose spotted predatory whelk that he called nassarius. He found one rotting in the tank. Picked him up and said he was dead yet left him to rot in the tank. :blown: . I don't get it. You can't save them all . It's rampant no matter where. Another lfs received bangaii cardinals. I got there 2 days after shipment arrived. Looked like they had brook . He said most of them bought and those 3 all he had. One was in a death spiral. Yet he did nothing. He says the other two looked like they got beat up. Glad I got there late otherwise I would have wasted $ on dead fish swimming. You don't have to have knowledge to own a fish store.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

The redness is an infection setting in. Best to treat that with antibiotics. Kanamycin is a good and safe choice. Although I don't know about an interaction with Melafix.

 

[Zorba2.0]

Thanks. Any recommendation? I see that Seachem makes Kanaplex. Hopefully I can find that at my LFS

 

[Sk8r]

It'll be dicey, but you stand a chance of saving him. Good luck. Mark a fill line on that hospital tank to keep his salinity AND med level steady.

 

[lifeoffaith]

I hate to say it...but I have a hard time buying from an LFS that allows their fish to suffer like that. I'd LOVE to save them all, but if you leave them there, maybe they will get a bad enough name from people coming in seeing dead/sick fish that they will go out of business. Of course, Petco probably wouldn't anyway, they might shut down the store, but it's too big to fail, quickly anyway.

 

[Whiterabbitrage]

I think it is great that you are trying to save that little guy. I second trying Kelaflex. I'd also try foods with more nutrition and higher fat content. Live blackworms would be great. Also get a little piece of salmon from your grocery store. Freeze it and cut off tiny pieces to feed Mr Goby. It's very nutritious. Good luck!!!

 

[Zorba2.0]

Yeah the LFS is locally owned, I didn't mean buying the Meds from Petco. Seems they have Metroplex, and some API products, Furan-2, tetracycline and erythromycin. Would any of these suffice?