rcmike
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Hey guys, first off, I have been keeping marine tanks for a long time and know better than to not quarantine but I got lazy and added a few fish without doing it recently.
Anyway, after adding the new fish I started seeing a very light ich infestation on some of the fish. Over the years I have had light infestations like this clear up on their own eventually so I didn't get too exited over it. It has been lingering though and is getting a little worse, also the fish are acting more skittish.
This morning when I checked on the tank my two clownfish have stringy slime hanging off of them and it appears they have brooklynella. They are also acting very irritated and stressed. I did a formalin dip and moved both of them to a 10 gal. QT tank. I also lowered the salinity to 1.009. I had a starry blenny die a few days ago and it had stringy slime on it when I found it dead. I didn't think much of it at the time. I just figured it was from the decomposition.
Still in the reef I have a small sailfing tang, medium copperbanded butterfly, medium rabbitfish, coral beauty angel, diamond goby, and two scooter dragonetts. None of them show signs of brooklynella but the tang, rabbitfish, and angel have some ich. I am going to set up a QT tank for them and do a hypo treatment for the ich. Should I just do the hypo for ich and observe them for brooklynella or go ahead and treat them for that as well? What about the scooter dragonetts? I have seen them eat some frozen but I don't know if they would eat enough to survive QT. I have also read about putting a container of sand in the tank for the diamond goby but mine is so active he would throw it all out of the container in a short while. I am going to leave the display tank fish free until the ich has died out. I have read different time lengths. What do you guys recommend?
Anyway, after adding the new fish I started seeing a very light ich infestation on some of the fish. Over the years I have had light infestations like this clear up on their own eventually so I didn't get too exited over it. It has been lingering though and is getting a little worse, also the fish are acting more skittish.
This morning when I checked on the tank my two clownfish have stringy slime hanging off of them and it appears they have brooklynella. They are also acting very irritated and stressed. I did a formalin dip and moved both of them to a 10 gal. QT tank. I also lowered the salinity to 1.009. I had a starry blenny die a few days ago and it had stringy slime on it when I found it dead. I didn't think much of it at the time. I just figured it was from the decomposition.
Still in the reef I have a small sailfing tang, medium copperbanded butterfly, medium rabbitfish, coral beauty angel, diamond goby, and two scooter dragonetts. None of them show signs of brooklynella but the tang, rabbitfish, and angel have some ich. I am going to set up a QT tank for them and do a hypo treatment for the ich. Should I just do the hypo for ich and observe them for brooklynella or go ahead and treat them for that as well? What about the scooter dragonetts? I have seen them eat some frozen but I don't know if they would eat enough to survive QT. I have also read about putting a container of sand in the tank for the diamond goby but mine is so active he would throw it all out of the container in a short while. I am going to leave the display tank fish free until the ich has died out. I have read different time lengths. What do you guys recommend?
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