Blue Green Chromis Help?

[4FordFamily]

My biggest fear is to "deal" with it and be constantly in fear of it with every fish that I add.

Personally — aside from chromis I wouldn’t lose much sleep. That’s my personal opinion, and I’m all about treating prophylactically. This is my experience though.

 

[Billiam228]

Ok, after hours of research and study I believe I have a solution.

I have been reading a scientific journal written by Tom Fenchel (Link below) explaining the life cycle of this affliction, and I believe I can "nuke" the tank in another way. I'm going to QT the last 2 chromis and treat the issue and as for the the DT... well I'm going to starve it for 5-8 weeks... the protozoa don't seem to be able to affect invertebrates due to the way their skin/shells are. So that just leaves the fact that they are free swimmer and they do not solely rely on fish for food, they also seem to feed off of detritus. So I'm going to let them. The journal goes in to how they observed that they will continue to multiply regardless of the food supply thus wasting energy and eventually dying off it was seen that without food that 80ish percent died off in the 1st 8 hours. So this is my experimental attempt to destroy this God awful disease once and for all!

To recap...
Starve the tank, QT the chromis (if they survive the night), 80-100% water changes every other day, and do a rain dance!

Any thoughts or suggestions would be extremely appropriate. Once again wish me luck!


https://www.google.com/url?q=http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=http://www.academia.edu/download/41237126/Adaptive_significance_of_polymorphic_lif20160114-7159-jcq6pb.pdf20160115-19908-c30jnp.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm0F-x1gnMlCMQnhYEYh7O518kUPMw&nossl=1&oi=scholarr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOwZKX6q7aAhXKna0KHXvzCvwQgAMIGygAMAA&usg=AOvVaw3v2REkbuz6Jd9oxA-Dh7Vz)

 

[Maritimer]

Sounds like a plan.

If you can turn the chromis around in QT, they may be strong enough to ward off the disease by the time you return them to the display. If they do come down with it again, I'd suggest simply avoiding Chromis in the future. As 4FordFamily said, although Uronema _can_ infect many fish, Chromis seem to be the only ones affected most of the time.

~Bruce

 

[Billiam228]

So I've began dosing the tank with metronidazole and after 4 days the 2 remaining chromis have become more active and the one on the brink of death from the the fisrt picture has actually heal most of its sore (sorry for the ****** picture) I'm not getting my hopes too up but things are starting to look better.

 

[Billiam228]

Just a quick update, both are doing very well in the QT been doing double doses of metroplex and treating the water with aloe vera (to help with the their mucus coat) both are extremely active and hungry as sharks lol. I have bleached everything in the DT and began the cycle over. Thanks for everything guys!

 

[HotRocks]

That's good news! Glad to hear it.