Advice About Marine fish

[clown1997]

Hi please no judgement know this group friendly. Over the last couple of months I have lost a lot of fish, I have done everything your supposed to do but sadly the fish I seem to be getting seem to be getting parasites on them or have parasites on them but can’t see them as not showing on the fish when buying. I’m now starting to lose interest in the hobby which I really don’t want too as everything I’m doing just seems not to be working. Any suggestions of what fish to get? I can keep fish as done in past but this year for some reason nothing seems to be working. I don’t know why or what I’m doing wrong

 

[Daenion]

If you have an established system I would leave it fallow starting now until end of October. Then either get fish from pre-quarantined sellers like tsm aquatics or dr reef or other reputable sellers. I really do not know if you have pre quarantined fish in UK. Or alternatively you can run your own qt if you want to get them locally. Jay has a great article on how to qt.

Btw I am going by you saying parasites assuming you had ich, velvet or something like that and not uronema.

 

[tbrown]

What type of parasite and how long are you waiting before adding more fish? Some Parasites require a longer fallow period than others.

No judgement here. What fish are you adding? Some fish are more susceptible than others to diseases like ich and velvet. Some are more susceptible to flukes.

 

[clown1997]

If you have an established system I would leave it fallow starting now until end of October. Then either get fish from pre-quarantined sellers like tsm aquatics or dr reef or other reputable sellers. I really do not know if you have pre quarantined fish in UK. Or alternatively you can run your own qt if you want to get them locally. Jay has a great article on how to qt.

Btw I am going by you saying parasites assuming you had ich, velvet or something like that and not uronema.

Oh okay, I'm not too sure with that myself with QT I always try to go for fish that have been in awhile in the shops. Yeah it was something like itch or velvet. Nope it wasn't uronema

 

[clown1997]

What type of parasite and how long are you waiting before adding more fish? Some Parasites require a longer fallow period than others.

No judgement here. What fish are you adding? Some fish are more susceptible than others to diseases like ich and velvet. Some are more susceptible to flukes.

Whitespot mostly and I have been doing waterchanges and waiting couple of months before adding new fish but that hasn't even been working fir me. I have been treating it too. I am adding angelfish, tangs but not the ones that are prone to whitespot like goldring etc even though thats my favourite tang wouldn't add it as gets whitespot quickly. I have a large naso tang that doing well and still alive in my tank eats like a pig and a orange spot goby.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

if your tank has disease then it should be kept fallow until the disease dies out, or else anything you put in their will catch the disease and die.

For me personally, the biggest "mistake" I see people do is add multiple fish at once, thats always a risk. You can never go wrong with adding just one fish at a time. With that said, you haven't given any info at all on the tank history so its pretty hard to offer any real suggestion.