jimeah
New Member
Hi,
Firstly, before the shoulda woulda coulda crowd chip in… going forward I have invested in a quarantine tank now to never be bitten again on this level.
IME, buying from this LFS over the last few years I never had any outbreak and was lulled into a false sense of security.
Two of the three of my Anthias died suddenly, in retrospect they had been hanging with the peppermint shrimp a lot the night before, they looked healthy enough and CUC didn’t leave enough for me to inspect postmortem.
Dosed MinnFinn for the whole tank assuming that it was broad spectrum enough. Realised it wasn’t gonna treat internal and ordered some prantiquantel for internal parasites.
Now nearly the whole tank inhabitants are covered in ich or velvet or both?
Some hiding and some swimming directly into the powerheads flow, which is what makes me think velvet.
My Bella Valencia Goby is also clearly suffering an additional bacterial/fungus as a secondary issue, fins are tattered and splotchy body.
Because it’s the display tank I am trying to treat I am kinda forced into using MinnFinn, it’s had three of the 5 treatments and the fish look a little better.
Only one that would stay still was the clown, and he besides the Goby looks the worst affected.
Does anybody else’s experience with MinnFinn correlate with mine?
Is it normal for the fish to be cured but still look rough and behave oddly?
or should the resulting healing look more conclusive than this?
My next step after a full and very expensive 5 doses of MinnFinn, is to use a copper based medication, but to do that I will have to remove the corals (or frags of corals) into a quarantine tank and copper the display.
Or is Minnfinn useless in this instance and just go straight to copper.
I can’t put my fish in a 50 litre tank for weeks.
Don’t have room for bigger quarantine facilities, live in a tiny UK home.
Firstly, before the shoulda woulda coulda crowd chip in… going forward I have invested in a quarantine tank now to never be bitten again on this level.
IME, buying from this LFS over the last few years I never had any outbreak and was lulled into a false sense of security.
Two of the three of my Anthias died suddenly, in retrospect they had been hanging with the peppermint shrimp a lot the night before, they looked healthy enough and CUC didn’t leave enough for me to inspect postmortem.
Dosed MinnFinn for the whole tank assuming that it was broad spectrum enough. Realised it wasn’t gonna treat internal and ordered some prantiquantel for internal parasites.
Now nearly the whole tank inhabitants are covered in ich or velvet or both?
Some hiding and some swimming directly into the powerheads flow, which is what makes me think velvet.
My Bella Valencia Goby is also clearly suffering an additional bacterial/fungus as a secondary issue, fins are tattered and splotchy body.
Because it’s the display tank I am trying to treat I am kinda forced into using MinnFinn, it’s had three of the 5 treatments and the fish look a little better.
Only one that would stay still was the clown, and he besides the Goby looks the worst affected.
Does anybody else’s experience with MinnFinn correlate with mine?
Is it normal for the fish to be cured but still look rough and behave oddly?
or should the resulting healing look more conclusive than this?
My next step after a full and very expensive 5 doses of MinnFinn, is to use a copper based medication, but to do that I will have to remove the corals (or frags of corals) into a quarantine tank and copper the display.
Or is Minnfinn useless in this instance and just go straight to copper.
I can’t put my fish in a 50 litre tank for weeks.
Don’t have room for bigger quarantine facilities, live in a tiny UK home.
