Uh - Oh!

[Pearsondesign]

well, for the last week i have been fighting off a massive outbreak of whitespot in my fish only tank
the larger volitan lionfish was covered and had very milky eyes. been using oodinex and reducing salinity slowly over the last few days but he died late last night

woke up today andthe red toothed trigger looked horrible too!
have done the second dose of oodinex today and a 25% change with less salty water to try and reduce salinity a bit.
since i did this the trigger and other fish all look normal again..

i dont have high hopes for the survival of the rest of the fish, but fingers crossed!!!

 

[seffieuk]

Oh no, not Rosie, fingers crossed here

Seffie x

 

[Pearsondesign]

Thanks Seffie
i hope things work out here, i really do!

if it does all go wrong and i lose them all, i wont be setting it up again until ive moved house at start of next year.
my reef tank is gonna be a pain to move!!

ill put a topic up for that when the time comes, needing peoples advice and what worked for them etc

 

[Pearsondesign]

well, a quick update.

all the fish in this tank are now dead

been to look at the new house today and tbh im not really feeling it.
so, i think im gonna stay here and just get this house looking good and whatnot.

looking for a 5ftx2ftx2ft now if anyone knows of one??

 

[rdp50734]

Sorry to hear about your stock! Hope you find a new tank and everything works out for you!

 

[seffieuk]

I'm so sorry

Seffie x

 

[the biffster]

sorry to hear about your
fish i used to feel the
same when i was moving i got
real disheartened

 

[Harry1996]

i would get one made from a place like this http/www.ndaquatics.co.uk/?pg=details&ii=30

 

[PaBucsFan]

Sorry to read about your loss. I recently had an similar outbreak. After losing nearly $200USD of fish and wasting nearly $100USD on different medicines and salt I was told to use PraziPro! #40## that stuff is good and can go in your display tank. My Semi-Snowflake pulled a 180 and looks 100% this morning! She is the only survivor and only one who was dosed with PraziPro!

 

[DarrenUnwin]

I share your loss, nearly had a major this weekend when I forgot to switch skimmer on after target feeding corals. Poor fish were on their last legs in the morning, lost a cleaner shrimp. Daughter totally gutted has it was her shrimp, she picked and named it

 

[Pearsondesign]

cheers guys

i also woke up yesterday to find my reef tank completely cloudy!
i couldnt get a water test done until the afternoon but within 3 hours it was perfectly clear !?!

could it have been a coral breeding thing? i have a lot of caulerpa in the tank but it all looked perfectly ok. if it had been a spike in bad stuff surely it wouldnt have cleared on its own? all the fish are fine and the corals are looking better than ever.
very odd indeed!