So my struggle continues. Fish seemed to recover and do well in QT until early January. I held copper at 2.4-2.5 ppm and did several rounds of general cure over 6 weeks. In early January I noticed my Eibli angel breathing heavily and not eating. No other symptoms. Copper level was starting to come down and at 2.35ppm at the time. I thought it may have been ammonia, I did a large water change and dosed another round of GC just in case. The Eibli recovered over a couple days. About 10 days went by, and I decided to move all the fish back to my DT. As I was moving them back over, all looked good, but my Potter's looked slightly off, I thought maybe just some stress in the QT tub.
After moving all fish back into the DT the potter's breathing got worse over a day, and then died the next night. 2-3 days later, the eibli breathing was worse, it stopped eating and started hiding, I caught it, fresh water dipped and added back to full CU in my QT tub. It only lasted another day. At the same time my flame angel got reclusive in the DT, stopped eating for 3 days, but then recovered. It ate for a day or 2, but then looked worse again. I elected to catch all fish and move back into the QT tub with 2.5ppm CU again about a week after I originally added them to the DT
Remaining surviving fish are back in my QT tub and have been for 1 week. Current CU level is 2.54ppm by Hanna. The lat 2 days the flame angel is hiding in pvc again, stopped eating, and breathing heavy. Through all this my other few remaining fish are showing absolutely no signs of disease. They include a blue hippo, 2 clown fish, a sapphire and azure damsel.
Basically, this seems like velvet to me, but it's only hitting my dwarf angels. Heavy breathing, reclusive, stop eating. But it started happening, and continues to happen in full strength copper.
Not sure what else I can do. Could this be a CU resistant strand of velvet that that dwarf angels are more susceptible to?
Should I increase CU to 2.75ppm, or try any other meds? I'm running out of ideas.
@Jay Hemdal
After moving all fish back into the DT the potter's breathing got worse over a day, and then died the next night. 2-3 days later, the eibli breathing was worse, it stopped eating and started hiding, I caught it, fresh water dipped and added back to full CU in my QT tub. It only lasted another day. At the same time my flame angel got reclusive in the DT, stopped eating for 3 days, but then recovered. It ate for a day or 2, but then looked worse again. I elected to catch all fish and move back into the QT tub with 2.5ppm CU again about a week after I originally added them to the DT
Remaining surviving fish are back in my QT tub and have been for 1 week. Current CU level is 2.54ppm by Hanna. The lat 2 days the flame angel is hiding in pvc again, stopped eating, and breathing heavy. Through all this my other few remaining fish are showing absolutely no signs of disease. They include a blue hippo, 2 clown fish, a sapphire and azure damsel.
Basically, this seems like velvet to me, but it's only hitting my dwarf angels. Heavy breathing, reclusive, stop eating. But it started happening, and continues to happen in full strength copper.
Not sure what else I can do. Could this be a CU resistant strand of velvet that that dwarf angels are more susceptible to?
Should I increase CU to 2.75ppm, or try any other meds? I'm running out of ideas.
@Jay Hemdal
