Recently I received a shipment of cardinal fish with frayed fins. All fish we're talking about here are in a QT. Despite treating with neoplex/metroplex/furan-2 for basically 2 rounds, all fish that arrived with frayed fins died. All fish without frayed fins have looked great and done well for 2-3 weeks; in fact I added my first dose of copper last night (1/5th dose). Except.....
This is my Royal Gramma 2 weeks ago:
And this is my Royal Gramma today:
Bullying?
He's quarantining with 2 small cardinals and a small yellow tang. There is one bully cardinal but only towards the other cardinal; they ignore the gramma. The tang is another story. The gramma is frightened of the tang. As the tang gets around the tank a lot, every time the tang comes near the gramma hides and the tang does seem to have some curiosity with the gramma. That said, I have never once seen the tang actually nip or act aggressively towards the gamma. He just comes near, the gramma hides, and everything is ok. I've even seen the gramma get a bit braver and free swim when the tang was nearby with no conflict. The gramma comes right back out when the tang swims away.
Fin rot (or other disease) resistant to neoplex/metroplex/furan-2?
As per the link above, 3 cardinals arrived with frayed fins and they all died despite antibiotics/fungals. So while bullying is one possibility, it would seem quite the coincidence that I had fish with frayed fins and now the gramma has frayed fins too.
What should I do?
These are my thoughts:
This is my Royal Gramma 2 weeks ago:
And this is my Royal Gramma today:
Bullying?
He's quarantining with 2 small cardinals and a small yellow tang. There is one bully cardinal but only towards the other cardinal; they ignore the gramma. The tang is another story. The gramma is frightened of the tang. As the tang gets around the tank a lot, every time the tang comes near the gramma hides and the tang does seem to have some curiosity with the gramma. That said, I have never once seen the tang actually nip or act aggressively towards the gamma. He just comes near, the gramma hides, and everything is ok. I've even seen the gramma get a bit braver and free swim when the tang was nearby with no conflict. The gramma comes right back out when the tang swims away.
Fin rot (or other disease) resistant to neoplex/metroplex/furan-2?
As per the link above, 3 cardinals arrived with frayed fins and they all died despite antibiotics/fungals. So while bullying is one possibility, it would seem quite the coincidence that I had fish with frayed fins and now the gramma has frayed fins too.
What should I do?
These are my thoughts:
- Stop the copper, treat again for a full course with antibiotics. Maybe switch the neoplex to kannaplex? Add anything else? Or since those antibiotics didn't knock it out, use a single, completely different antibiotic?
- Keep going with copper, hope he lives/recovers.
- Keep going with copper (or not), but put him in an HOB isolation box I recently purchased in case it's bullying? Or just to let him recover in safety.