Browndawg80
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so ive got a 55 gallon qt tank running barebottom with a canister filter, 2 powerheads, heaters, and pvc pipe. no substrate or LR. My normal qt procedure is 2 weeks of cupramine followed by a week or 2 of prazi. this is the 4th batch of fish ive treated and never had a problem before.
a few days ago i added 3 wrasses: McCoskers flasher, C. Lineatus, and an orange back fairy all at the same time from the same source. For a couple days these fish were all fine so i decided against my better judgement and added a healthy looking C. Temminckii from a sketchy LFS.
Maybe a day later i come home to find the orangeback dead for no apparent reason but the other 3 are all still eating and actively swimming. At this point i decide to start my normal QT procedure and treat with cupramine so i dose half my dosage the first night, next day fish all look good so i go ahead and dose the other half. 24 hours later which is today i come home to find all 3 fish lethargic and just laying there basically doing nothing. I then tried feeding a cube of mysis and got no movement or response from any of them. Next i did some basic testing and salinity and temp were good. using a Seachem test kit i got the correct cupramine reading of 0.5 or whatever it should be.
At this point i panicked and did a 50% water change and added some carbon to remove the cupramine thinking that these wrasses are sensitive and are all having a bad reaction? Now maybe i'm not sure and wonder if the Temminckii had velvet or brock and i made a mistake by removing the medication. What should i do?
a few days ago i added 3 wrasses: McCoskers flasher, C. Lineatus, and an orange back fairy all at the same time from the same source. For a couple days these fish were all fine so i decided against my better judgement and added a healthy looking C. Temminckii from a sketchy LFS.
Maybe a day later i come home to find the orangeback dead for no apparent reason but the other 3 are all still eating and actively swimming. At this point i decide to start my normal QT procedure and treat with cupramine so i dose half my dosage the first night, next day fish all look good so i go ahead and dose the other half. 24 hours later which is today i come home to find all 3 fish lethargic and just laying there basically doing nothing. I then tried feeding a cube of mysis and got no movement or response from any of them. Next i did some basic testing and salinity and temp were good. using a Seachem test kit i got the correct cupramine reading of 0.5 or whatever it should be.
At this point i panicked and did a 50% water change and added some carbon to remove the cupramine thinking that these wrasses are sensitive and are all having a bad reaction? Now maybe i'm not sure and wonder if the Temminckii had velvet or brock and i made a mistake by removing the medication. What should i do?
