Preventing disaster

[rynosaurus]

I need some help everyone. I have a small 20 gallon reef with only two fish. Clown and watchman goby. I introduced a sick fish unknowingly and seem to have infected the tank. The new fish died and now my clown has passed ! I’m more angry than anything that I made the mistake, so I don’t want to make it again.

My question, how can I keep my goby in this tank until I get my larger 150gallon setup, and be able to transfer everything to the big tank without transferring the disease?

 

[Gareth elliott]

Sorry for the losses [emoji20]
Have any photos of the fish that passed? Or description of the symptoms of the illness that happened? Different diseases will have different protocols how to treat the fish and how to keep the tank rock etc free of it.

 

[rynosaurus]

This is the purple tang I bought that started it all. He started whit whit spots all over and would just stay in the corner and do nothing.
My clown however I don’t have a pic of but when sick he just looked very cloudy his entire body covered in a haziness even his eyes. I did not take a pic of him after he passed.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Sounds like velvet. By the speed

 

[Gareth elliott]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/

If there was heavy mucous coat on the clown another possibility would be brook.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/brooklynella.247938/

 

[rynosaurus]

I’ve read through the majority of those posts and what I can gather it most likely was velvet! They both died within a day of the first signs. It also seems that copper is a good way to get rid of it. So hopefully my lfs has some and I’ll start treating the tank. But will the copper effect my coral?

Thank you all for the help.

 

[rynosaurus]

I’ve read through the majority of those posts and what I can gather it most likely was velvet! They both died within a day of the first signs. It also seems that copper is a good way to get rid of it. So hopefully my lfs has some and I’ll start treating the tank. But will the copper effect my coral?

Thank you all for the help.

 

[Gareth elliott]

I’ve read through the majority of those posts and what I can gather it most likely was velvet! They both died within a day of the first signs. It also seems that copper is a good way to get rid of it. So hopefully my lfs has some and I’ll start treating the tank. But will the copper effect my coral?

Thank you all for the help.

Corals will not survive copper.

You will have to separate your inverts and rock from fish.

And setting up a quarantine tank for the fish this could be as simple as a 5-10 gallon aquarium for a single fish the size as yours.

https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/how-to-quarantine.232/

 

[rynosaurus]

So how can I treat the entire tank to ensure this stuff is ok to put in my big tank when it’s ready? Or is it just beaver gonna be safe?

 

[rynosaurus]

Never*

 

[Gareth elliott]

By having no fish in the tank for 76 days any parasites that are the tank will starve to
Death.

 

[rynosaurus]

Ok not to ask stupid questions but does no fish include crabs or snails or anything living?? Or literally just no fish?

 

[Gareth elliott]

Ok not to ask stupid questions but does no fish include crabs or snails or anything living?? Or literally just no fish?

Just no fish, velvet requires a fish host to complete its life cycle. They cant feed in any inverts

 

[rynosaurus]

Ok well thanks gonna take some serious patience [emoji853] but thank y’all for the help!