DaScubaSteve
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There is a formula for the h202 bath on himble.fish site
Silver spot tang hiding a lot with shredded fins and not swimming properly
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Good luck... when you have a chance read that forum profusely there is a lot of good research on there regarding quarantining your fish both profolacticly or through tank transfer method
Sharkbait19
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Copper power should actually be immediately dosed to therapeutic level - otherwise diseases can build up a resistance. Also, often fish need to be immediately treated and the extra few days can wind up being deadly if disease is bad enough.
To the OP, there still really is not enough to go on. A video is still necessary to get a good idea of what is going on, it’s all guesses based on a few pictures and what we are told. It sounds like the fish is unlikely to survive, and that the issue is specific to this fish (as nothing else is affected as of now). The damage is not as bad as I expected, so aggression may not be the big issue (though I think it may still be based on tankmates).
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DaScubaSteve
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I would do an h202 bath... then into copper at 2.0
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Sorry - this fish is actively dying. It is very thin, breathing too fast and has ripped fins. I do not see any way that you can save it. If you want to try to anyway, give it a 5 minute freshwater bath and get it into a hospital tank with copper in it this evening.
What is that purple thing in the basket behind it? It looks like a dead dottyback.
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Ha - I brought my wife over to look at that picture, she doesn't know aquariums at all and she thought it was a dead fish as well.....
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Sorry to hear it.
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Sorry to hear... it has happened to the best of us even when we try to do everything to save them. At this point I would look into proper qt techniques and have a plan in place for if and when this happens again. And expand upon your knowledge of properly quarantining fish proactively. It is all apart of the hobby learn and grow. I had a fish die on me from parasitic worms... he stopped putting on weight and eventually died. At the time I did not know what was wrong. Then when my purple tang started to look skinny and appeared to be heading in that direction I pulled him out of the display and put him in a quarantine 20 long with just pvc pipe and dosed medicine to kill the worms and he got fat and happy and is with me today. I tell this story because after learning from my mistake and saving my purple tang I felt a better about losing my first o e because I had learned from the mistake and used it to save another fishes life. So don't be hard on yourself learn from your mistakes and when you save your next fish you will feel better about this experience because you learned from it. Go over to Humble.fish forum and just read read read
MnFish1
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I wanted to remind you to Quarantine the remaining fish with copper and Prazipro. Also - I would recommend that you use some of the excellent references here on the site - on the fish disease treatment forum. There are multiple stickies that cover every aspect of disease treatment and prevention!! Good luck with the rest of your fish!!
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