Need Help Asap

[fishlette]

will explain why later but for now what is the best way for treating marine white spot??? i have oodinium treatment and melafix. which one should i go? or, can i try turning the heat up a little in the quarantine tank and turn the lights off??

any help ASAP would be great

thanks guys

 

[fishlette]

ok, after trying to catch the effected fish, i have decided it would be easier to take the corals out and treat the tank, than to try and treat the fish in the quarantine tank

i have many questions regarding this as i have not yet encountered any illness in the marine tank. unfortunately, when my mum was here she decided to get me another yellow coral goby as i had been saying how i wanted one. she watched me go through the process when i got a fish home and off she went while i was at owrk one day and bought me a goby. by the time i got home, it was swimming around in the tank. i couldnt get cranky at her cause she had no idea, but obviously, i didnt get to quarantine it. a few days after, i noticed white spots on it so i took it out and treated it. then today i notice a few of my other guys with white spots.

anyhoo, my first question, as long as i take out all the corals, can i treat the tank safely? will my shrimp be ok or should i take them out??? basically, is there anything other than fish that are fine to leave in the tank?

next question, is do i have to treat them with meds?? can i try turning the heat up a little and turning the lights off for a few days?? i would like to treat without meds if i can. will still take corals out anyway due to lack of light, extra heat etc etc

anyway, please tell me what is the best way to deal with all this

thanks

 

[Musho3210]

i dunno but i wouldnt feel comfortable treating meds in the display tank, try a hypo salinity treatment maybe?

find it somewhere here:
http/www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php

 

[@ombomb]

However difficult it is to catch the fish, catch the fish.

If you put anything copper based into your main tank, it will leech into the rock and the silicone and harm any invertibrate life in the tank.

Catch the fish.

 

[SkiFletch]

Agreed, don't treat the tank with copper based meds. Melafix, ok, but not copper. Your best bet is probably to take out the corals, put them in a holding tank, drop your salinity to like 1.019 or even a bit less, raise the temp, treat with melafix, and feed a lot of garlic laced foods. If you have one, make sure your UV sterilizer is cleaned and turned on, and your skimmer turned off (melafix makes them go NUTS). Remember, fish can battle mild infections of ich/oodinium themselves, so keep the water comfortable for them, feed them well, and keep your fingers crossed.

 

[@ombomb]

 

[shibby]

or he meant corals since there easier to take out and are susceptable to the hypersalinity method so you can do that with them in tank ......

 

[@ombomb]

yeah you're right, didn't read that correctly

 

[shibby]

only found out that corals were suceptable to hypersalinity today lol!


a combonation of neon gobys and cleaner shrimp is always a good protection act. but melafix is also awesome i used it in my tank and got some great fast results o and i also fed garlic worked too!

 

[fishlette]

how do i administer garlic?

will the urchins and dragonets be effected by the hyposalinity? this is the way i would like to try it.

ok, so im going to take the corals out and take them to the marine shop i work at a couple days a week. i can leave them there as long as i need. i dont want to put them in my quarantine tank as its really too small for the amount of corals i have. then i will dilute water to 1.019??? what temp should i turn it to? should i leave lighting off?

thanks for everyones replies tis one of the drawbacks of having a reef...not easy when you need to treat the tank. and a lesson learned, ALWAYS quarantine your fish

 

[SkiFletch]

I'd take the urchin out. And the temp should get up to 82-83.

Edit, and for garlic supplimentation, either buy a marine garlic suppliment (sometimes sold at your LFS), or more cheaply, go to the supermarket, and buy minced garlic (the stuff in the liquid in the dish). THen put a little bit of that in with your food as you're dissolving it before feeding