Doing a water change and dosing at a higher concentration today. Noticed my blue-streak goby is coughing now also. The tangs are still breathing the same. Still no spots or other new symptoms.
O.K., make sure you aerate well during the treatment.
What is a good way to aerate? I have a tunze 6045 angled upward for surface agitation. Should I run my skimmer with no cup and let it overflow back into the sump?
Yes - run the skimmer with no cup. As long as the Tunze is breaking the surface tension, that helps as well.
Hm, interesting. I had an orange spotted goby last year, he didn’t live but a week when I got him home (his belly turned black, very odd). He also did this gape with his mouth every so often. I’ve read a couple different opinions of it being a defensive behavior, or just their trying to get food from the water column. As far as change in diet, I have fed my tank some pellets recently that I normally don’t (not many and the clowns usually get them all), and I’ve fed a carnivore mix of frozen food in addition to the mysis I normally feed.
Looks like I may have a new issue... the goby has this strange white lump on his forehead, and possibly a couple white spots. I’m seeing a white spec on my purple tang and one of my clowns also. The pictures are mostly to guide your eyes during the videos. There is sand and some bubbles floating around, and the lump on his head looks like a piece of course substrate, but it and these specs are not falling off like sand normally does which is what’s concerning me. My fish love to stick close to my goby, so they are always getting sand stuck to themselves, but it doesn’t normally stick this long. What are your thoughts??
No new spots to report today. The purple tang still has the spot in the same place near his head, the clown in the same place on his side, and the goby on its lower fin. These are VERY small spots, im honestly surprised I could see them at all. The only new development is that the tail fin of the goby is damaged today. My purple tang had some damage to his dorsal fin last week but it has already grown back. Tangs are still breathing hard, and are eating and swimming just fine. After two treatments of prazipro, my featherdusters are still alive. Does this mean I’m not dosing enough? I’m not sure if I’m being paranoid or what, I just don’t want to see these guys wind up dead!
DT 48*24*22 = 25,344 / 231 = app. 110 g * .85 = app. 93 g
I’m sure you’re sick of hearing from me by now! The spot that was on my purple tang and clown has disappeared and no new spots are found. Spot is still on lower fin of goby but his tail fin has already healed almost completely since yesterday. Only new finding today is on my scopas tang. Near its gills I saw a spot that was lighter than normal and lighter than the rest of his side. Now, he is growing and I see his spots turning into lines, so I don’t know what to think! Picture and video attached. Tangs are still breathing shallow and rapidly and I think my feather dusters are multiplying rather than dying from the prazipro.
Seems like good numbers, I just wanted to double check that, since the dusters didn’t die.
I don’t see anything identifiably treatable on the scopas....and I don’t want to just shotgun ideas out there. I think you should wait to see what develops with that, it may be nothing at all.I’m sure you’re sick of hearing from me by now! The spot that was on my purple tang and clown has disappeared and no new spots are found. Spot is still on lower fin of goby but his tail fin has already healed almost completely since yesterday. Only new finding today is on my scopas tang. Near its gills I saw a spot that was lighter than normal and lighter than the rest of his side. Now, he is growing and I see his spots turning into lines, so I don’t know what to think! Picture and video attached. Tangs are still breathing shallow and rapidly and I think my feather dusters are multiplying rather than dying from the prazipro.
Thanks Jay! Any signs of HLLE on the scopas? I notice some lines on my scopas tangs face and around its eye, that I don’t see on the scopas tangs at the stores.
Looking again, there may be a hint of HLLE above the left eye, but tough to say for sure.
