KellyFishy
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Aloha,
I'm living in Hawaii, special ordered a fish from Petco. He arrived on Wednesday, I picked him up on Friday. He seems to have adjusted well. He eats very well, is very alert, even curious. I am so in love!
But Saturday night, I noticed small little white spots all over. Difficult to notice at first, but since, they've become more apparent. I've received a broad spectrum of advice from "just be sure he eats and dump some stress coat in, he'll be fine" to people suggesting copper, formalin, methylene blue, etc (which I know he'll react poorly to). Yes hospital tank, no hospital tank. Fresh water dips 1 min, to three hours! Hyposaline dips of 1.009ppt.
It's just overwhelming, and I so badly want to make the best choices for this guy.
Yesterday I added stress coat. Today I did a hypo dip for 15 minutes. Five minutes later, he hate just fine.
My parameters are:
pH 7.6
nitrite .125
nitrate 15ppm
ammonia 0.
For nitrite and nitrate, I sort of guessed high on, but they could be as low as 0 nitrite and 10ppm for nitrate.
What do I do next? Help!
I'm living in Hawaii, special ordered a fish from Petco. He arrived on Wednesday, I picked him up on Friday. He seems to have adjusted well. He eats very well, is very alert, even curious. I am so in love!
But Saturday night, I noticed small little white spots all over. Difficult to notice at first, but since, they've become more apparent. I've received a broad spectrum of advice from "just be sure he eats and dump some stress coat in, he'll be fine" to people suggesting copper, formalin, methylene blue, etc (which I know he'll react poorly to). Yes hospital tank, no hospital tank. Fresh water dips 1 min, to three hours! Hyposaline dips of 1.009ppt.
It's just overwhelming, and I so badly want to make the best choices for this guy.
Yesterday I added stress coat. Today I did a hypo dip for 15 minutes. Five minutes later, he hate just fine.
My parameters are:
pH 7.6
nitrite .125
nitrate 15ppm
ammonia 0.
For nitrite and nitrate, I sort of guessed high on, but they could be as low as 0 nitrite and 10ppm for nitrate.
What do I do next? Help!