My butterfly died of copperband vibriosis recently. There were patches of redness on the fish that looked like internal bleeding and the falling of scales around the swelling areas.
I put a cleaner wrasse from the water that contained the copperband into a different system on 23rd for 1hr and pulled the cleaner wrasse out. So far I don't see the disease on other fish. Should I treat all other fish? I have Kanamycin. I started to treat the copperband on 2/25 and on 2/27 the red patch went from 1 to 5~6 in less than 48 hours. It killed the fish very quickly. Does fish have immunity towards this disease? Should I be using other antibiotics?
The origin of the disease: carried by a copperband butterfly from Liveaquaria, died in 2 days during T&T (I usually TT fish first). On Monday 2/15 I bought this copperband, and on 2/25 the first red patch noticed and 2/27 death.
I took the fish 10 days from infection to showing of the first swelling and 2 days to died after the swelling. Should I be dosing antibiotics in the other system prophylactically? Any one experienced / treated this disease successfully? What should I do? All 6 fish from Liveaquaria died along T&T process. Two butterflies showed swelling while others did not.
I should have never put that cleaner wrasse into the other system. Now that system may be infected. I have very expensive fish in there (FOT)... I have yet to see any signs of infection on the fish in the other system
Thanks!
I put a cleaner wrasse from the water that contained the copperband into a different system on 23rd for 1hr and pulled the cleaner wrasse out. So far I don't see the disease on other fish. Should I treat all other fish? I have Kanamycin. I started to treat the copperband on 2/25 and on 2/27 the red patch went from 1 to 5~6 in less than 48 hours. It killed the fish very quickly. Does fish have immunity towards this disease? Should I be using other antibiotics?
The origin of the disease: carried by a copperband butterfly from Liveaquaria, died in 2 days during T&T (I usually TT fish first). On Monday 2/15 I bought this copperband, and on 2/25 the first red patch noticed and 2/27 death.
I took the fish 10 days from infection to showing of the first swelling and 2 days to died after the swelling. Should I be dosing antibiotics in the other system prophylactically? Any one experienced / treated this disease successfully? What should I do? All 6 fish from Liveaquaria died along T&T process. Two butterflies showed swelling while others did not.
I should have never put that cleaner wrasse into the other system. Now that system may be infected. I have very expensive fish in there (FOT)... I have yet to see any signs of infection on the fish in the other system
Thanks!
