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Fish is in color transitioning stage. Fins have lymphocystis which is a condition rather than disease.Hi,
White/brownish stringy feces, in real life it's a bit more brownish than in the pictures/video.
Fish is eating and looking well.
10 days in QT, was treated with GC and metro, now starting copper.
Would appreciate your help with diagnosis and further treatment.
Thanks
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First, thanks!Fish is in color transitioning stage. Fins have lymphocystis which is a condition rather than disease.
The poop appears to be from excess mucus or fats and are likely based on foods fed. This fish needs its meats along with vegetation and vitamins.
I am assuming you are feeding Mysis and pellets. Add foods such as LRS Herbivore diet, spirulina brine, Formula 2 frozen, Hikari veggies blend and Hikari angel formula.
Add selcon vitamins to food occasionally and maintain good water quality with reliable test kits
Also be carful with too many meds in a short window span. Use GC OR Copper, that all at once. Metro can be removed from use and should be applied precisely if used at .05GM by weight which is a very tiny amount
NOT Wrong on dry, no but not an adequate diet for this type of fish. I have many tangs and feed diets with meats and Greens.First, thanks!
In the first few days I fed frozen mysis/krill, and since then moved to pellets:
PE Pellets Saltwater Fish Food
Hikari Marine A
Hikari Seaweed Extreme
TDO-EP1 Chroma BOOST
I don't live in the US so the frozen food you mentioned isn't available to me :/ I also have maastik which i'm not currently using and can add to the mix. All is dry food though. I do soak in vitamarin-M by brightwell and korralin zocht amino acid once a week. Am I wrong to feed only dry?
Regarding meds, I did 50% water change before starting copper - but the poop appears this way since before.
Hi,
White/brownish stringy feces, in real life it's a bit more brownish than in the pictures/video.
Fish is eating and looking well.
10 days in QT, was treated with GC and metro, now starting copper.
Would appreciate your help with diagnosis and further treatment.
Thanks
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The feces is probably diet related, doesn't look like an issue to me...clear mucoid feces is more of an issue.
Just for future reference: GC has metro in it, so you do not want to dose that and metro at the same time. Also, I generally run copper before GC, as copper stops protozoan diseases and those kill faster than flukes do, which is what GC works on.
I can see a couple of suspicious white spots on the fish....but if it is ich, the copper will help with that.
Jay
No LRS hereNOT Wrong on dry, no but not an adequate diet for this type of fish. I have many tangs and feed diets with meats and Greens.
I believe in your country, there is LRS foods. LRS herbivore diet is good. Sera is also available in middle east and diets with plankton, chopped krill and other fine meats offer color enhancers and fats for their dietary needs. There may be Shirley Aquatics’ foods frozen - and pacifica blend,
The reason I'm doing copper last is that I'm doing the 14 days copper method so I have to move them out of the QT and into DT after 14 days (if no symptoms are present). That's the tradeoff I chose between QT legth of time and number of QT tanks to use. So I start with GC and metro and copper is last. Plan is to switch to copper in case there are signs of ich/velvet, but haven't seen that happen yet in the 3 QT cycles I ran. Regarding GC/metro the protocol I'm doing is GC on days 1/7, metro on days 3/5/9 and 50% water change on days 6,10. Would be happy for feedback on this one.
Thanks!
First time i'm reading hearing about chloroquine, is there a good source of information about it that you can point me at?That seems fine, since you aren't overlapping the metro.
I don't use metro as a bath anymore, it is pretty old school and just isn't as effective as copper or chloroquine. I will use it in carefully dosed, medicated gel diet (0.5% by weight). Adding it to the water can help a little against internal protozoans, because marine fish do drink water and thus swallow some metro at the same time, but I personally think that amount is too small.
Jay
First time i'm reading hearing about chloroquine, is there a good source of information about it that you can point me at?
Thanks
Update: the fish has developed some sort of discoloration, attaching some pics and a video. Looks as if the fish is "loosing color". The change is very noticeable compared to the pictures in the 1st message of this thread. Other than that the fish is looking well and eating well. What could that be?
Jay, thank you so much for your help. It's so helpful for hobbyists such as myself. Advanced Marine Aquarium Techniques is already on the way, can't wait to start reading it
The fish is in therapeutic copper (2.6, copper power) for 6 days, since 4/18. It's still in copper and because of the yellow eye tang's black ich looks that all 3 fishes will remain in copper for quite some time. The black ich symptoms look a bit better on the tang but as you suggested will start a 30-day count only once the symptoms are completely gone. Would that be too long for the fish to be in copper?
This is the protocol I used for GC/metro. Dosage amount is per the instruction's manual:
Day 1 - GC
Day 3 - metro
Day 5 - metro
Day 6 - 50% water change
Day 7 - GC
Day 9 - metro
Day 10 - 50% water change
Day 11 - Starting to raise copper over 3 days to 2.5. After 14 days in copper with no symptoms, move the fish to DT.
BTW, I have nitrofurazone at my disposal. Bought it a while ago. Should I use it to fight the possible bacterial infection?
Would love your tip on how to continue this QT process in order to cover the 3 options you mentioned above (dose nitrofurazone? repeat GC treatment at the end of copper? other suggestions?)
Thanks!