Has anyone had any trouble with spot coming back after CP?
QT'd a Vampire tang for about a month in CP. All fine so moved him to the DT and a few days later he came down in spot so stripped than tank and moved the fish and LR into a 2ft cube and treated all the fish and treated for about 28 days by dosing 13 Avloclor tablets once and doing no water changes until treatment finished. Tank has RW8 running for flow, heater and internal filter with a sponge and about 20ishkgs of LR, maybe 30. Tank has 2x24w t5s over it with very old bulbs that are on for maybe 2 hrs a day and ambient room light for the rest of the time. I have used CP before and covered the tank in towels to reduce all light but I found some of the fish don't eat enough that way. Salinity kept at normal level of 35ppt for the whole treatment.
Not all fish were showing spot when I transfered them and the vampire died on transfer as he was stuck to one of the pumps and very skinny, all others happy and eating fine. Spot cleared completely after maybe 5 days and they were fine thereafter.
Now I hooked up an external filter with carbon and did some WCs to remove the CP and a few days later the emperor angel started showing a few spots on his fins again and now the Scopas is showing some (he didn't show any the first time around).
I have reduced the salinity gradually over the past few days to 30ppt and just dosed 15 tablets of avloclor.
Full fish list is:
Juv emperor angel
Flame Angel
Purple Tang
Scopas Tang
Kole Tang
Aip eating filefish
Midas Blenny
Royal Gramma
Azure damsels x2
No aggression and all get along fine and feeding well. Damsels occasionally dance about a bit with each other but nothing major and they always have. Fish came out of a 125g
Don't think I have left anything out.
QT'd a Vampire tang for about a month in CP. All fine so moved him to the DT and a few days later he came down in spot so stripped than tank and moved the fish and LR into a 2ft cube and treated all the fish and treated for about 28 days by dosing 13 Avloclor tablets once and doing no water changes until treatment finished. Tank has RW8 running for flow, heater and internal filter with a sponge and about 20ishkgs of LR, maybe 30. Tank has 2x24w t5s over it with very old bulbs that are on for maybe 2 hrs a day and ambient room light for the rest of the time. I have used CP before and covered the tank in towels to reduce all light but I found some of the fish don't eat enough that way. Salinity kept at normal level of 35ppt for the whole treatment.
Not all fish were showing spot when I transfered them and the vampire died on transfer as he was stuck to one of the pumps and very skinny, all others happy and eating fine. Spot cleared completely after maybe 5 days and they were fine thereafter.
Now I hooked up an external filter with carbon and did some WCs to remove the CP and a few days later the emperor angel started showing a few spots on his fins again and now the Scopas is showing some (he didn't show any the first time around).
I have reduced the salinity gradually over the past few days to 30ppt and just dosed 15 tablets of avloclor.
Full fish list is:
Juv emperor angel
Flame Angel
Purple Tang
Scopas Tang
Kole Tang
Aip eating filefish
Midas Blenny
Royal Gramma
Azure damsels x2
No aggression and all get along fine and feeding well. Damsels occasionally dance about a bit with each other but nothing major and they always have. Fish came out of a 125g
Don't think I have left anything out.
