This is my first time posting on here and I think I might have an emergency with my first time dosing Prazipro. My tank is about 7 months old. I have one Foxface, two firefish, one basslet, one small blue tang ( I plan to get a larger tank next year) two clowns, two cleaner shrimp and two hermit crabs. My tank size is 23 gallons. I started noticing what I thought were flukes on my fox face about five days ago. I had noticed something similar on my tang about a month ago but it went away in a couple of days. I went to my LFS store and was told to dose my entire tank with Prazipro. The store owner told me to remove my carbon AND bio media because it was likely infected with the disease, since this has come up from time to time since I started my tank and bought fish from a different store. He said that it would be best to throw away my media because the disease was really in there. He told me to keep the prazipro there for 5 days before doing a water change, adding new media, charcoal and a whole bottle of "One and Only" from Dr. Tim.
I followed his instruction and took out the activated charcoal, bio media and did a 50% water change before adding Prazipro around 2 p.m. yesterday. When I woke up this morning, my female clown had died. I didn't even know that she was infected because she wasn't showing symptoms. She was very dominant in the tank and seemed like she was one of the stronger fish. All of my other fish seem ok but are looking kind of sluggish. My fox face, who was the reason why I decided to look into Prazipro to begin with, is looking a little better but still a little sluggish. She's not hiding as much as when she had the flukes, but I'm not sure how long it takes to heal. I have since added a new pack of bio media to my tank, on the advice of a different fish store employee who said that I should have never taken it out to begin with. My cleaner shrimp molted, even though it had just moved last week. I am concerned and have the following questions:
Is it too soon to do a 20% water change? I am nervous that more fish will die because the medication is too strong. My water test is also registering a slight ammonia spike, my nitrite is at 0.
My PH is the lowest it's been since I started the tank, how do I get it back up?
How soon can I add the activated carbon?
How soon can I add another clown to my tank so that my other clown doesn't get depressed and die?
Will the Prazi disappear on its own or do I have to do another water change once the five days passes?
If I shouldn't have dosed the Prazi to begin with, will a water change get rid of it?
Will my fish survive.
I have included a picture of my fox face with what I thought were flukes. Thank you in advance, this is really stressful because I have never kept saltwater fish before. Everything was going really well with my tank until this, now I feel scared that I will kill more fish.
I followed his instruction and took out the activated charcoal, bio media and did a 50% water change before adding Prazipro around 2 p.m. yesterday. When I woke up this morning, my female clown had died. I didn't even know that she was infected because she wasn't showing symptoms. She was very dominant in the tank and seemed like she was one of the stronger fish. All of my other fish seem ok but are looking kind of sluggish. My fox face, who was the reason why I decided to look into Prazipro to begin with, is looking a little better but still a little sluggish. She's not hiding as much as when she had the flukes, but I'm not sure how long it takes to heal. I have since added a new pack of bio media to my tank, on the advice of a different fish store employee who said that I should have never taken it out to begin with. My cleaner shrimp molted, even though it had just moved last week. I am concerned and have the following questions:
Is it too soon to do a 20% water change? I am nervous that more fish will die because the medication is too strong. My water test is also registering a slight ammonia spike, my nitrite is at 0.
My PH is the lowest it's been since I started the tank, how do I get it back up?
How soon can I add the activated carbon?
How soon can I add another clown to my tank so that my other clown doesn't get depressed and die?
Will the Prazi disappear on its own or do I have to do another water change once the five days passes?
If I shouldn't have dosed the Prazi to begin with, will a water change get rid of it?
Will my fish survive.
I have included a picture of my fox face with what I thought were flukes. Thank you in advance, this is really stressful because I have never kept saltwater fish before. Everything was going really well with my tank until this, now I feel scared that I will kill more fish.