I left the purple guy in the bucket overnight to see if anything revealed itself but I did not see anything different. It could have been really bad flukes that upon falling off just left too much damage in their wake.
So from a timeline perspective, the ich was discovered on Thursday 9/29. That night I pulled the Sailfin, Purple, Whitetail and trigger into the QT and began copper immediately bringing it up to 2.5 over 24 hours. There was immediate improvement with the exception of the whitetail who had the obvious mouth damage and died by the morning of 10/1.
10/3 my swallowtails came in which unfortunately were ordered before this all started and we bound for the QT anyway so in they went with the 2 tangs and the trigger. Everyone seemed to be fine. The female was a little shy and hid in the cave mostly but everyone was eating and doing just fine in the copper. No ammonia, no ill effects, everything seemed just peachy.
10/13 I came home from work and went to feed and found the female swallowtail dead in the cave. Removed her, fed everyone, back to normal for now.
10/17 I wake up to a dead male swallowtail. Pulled him out and went about my business.
10/17 night was when I noticed they did not eat anything and were breathing heavy.
10/19 pulled the trigger and put her in the other QT (sidenote: She and everyone else in that tank are doing just fine)
10/20 night I dosed the Prazi
10/21 night - lost both tangs
#fishmedics
Just looking for trends, this seems to point to an issue with the QT itself, not a disease that the trigger would have carried over:
10/19 pulled the trigger and put her in the other QT (sidenote: She and everyone else in that tank are doing just fine)
Jay