Sick fish....QT tanks and the headaches... how do you cope?

[daniella3d]

It coulde be marine velvet, or it could be broklynella, hard to tell.

It is important since the treatment is different and with broklynella only formaline works, and for velvet you need Cupramine.

If the other fish are not infected, I would think broklynella. The best way to start would be to do a dip in formaline and then put the fish in quarantine and continue treating with formaline. You can try Seachem Paraguard, as this is a broad spectrum med that is effective againts many things like ick and bacterial infection.

If you treat with Cupramine don't put any liverock in the tank because it will be contaminated with copper. If you treat with Paraguard put some cycled liverock in the QT so that biological filtration will be working.

Now you would need to treat all the fish and leave your tank without fish for 6 weeks, because if you reintroduce the fish into contaminated water they will become sick again, plus not just because your other fish don't show sign yet, it does not mean they will not eventually start as well. Most parasites have cycle.

AS for saltwater being harder to treat for disease as freshwater...I can see you never had to deal with discus plague...I spent one week hardly getting any sleep trying to save my discus from that deadly disease. I managed to save them all but one but darn I was exhausted from the lack of sleep after that week. I never had any problem with my marine fish but I do what's right..and I quarantine. If a problem would show up it would be limited and easy to treat fast in quarantine. I nearly loast my discus because I did not quarantine...lesson learned.

Originally Posted by Hustler

Now... In the QT i still keep live rock and sand right?
I have a heater and filters with no carbon....
Still trying to find the right treatment for this slime sluffing Im still guessing is clownfish desies.... weird they were fine for months till the powder got stressed though?