My setup is a FO only setup - no sand, no rock. No decor.
I have a fish with extremely heavy breathing. Not skinny and no external sign of like brook/velvet/ich. Recently I sold some fish to my friend, and very shortly after she started having large losses - fish having this same symptom. I'm not exactly sure what happened. I haven't bought new fish in 6+ months. I took a fish out of a QT tank that was in there for a year and put into system A. I then took known healthy fish from system A and put into system B. I was trying to consolidate and use up available space. In doing this, I transferred something. The fish from Qt never showed symptoms that entire time. I'm wondering if that fish was some how immune - I don't think that's possible.
Anyways, my friend lost fish FAST. Within a few days she lost 10+ fish.
I was thinking this was either the beginning of Brook or Velvet. I have 10 pairs of clowns in this system, and only 1 fish is showing the symptoms. I turned off my UV and added CP. I shutoff a canister filter that had carbon in it. I forgot to shut my skimmer off for a few hours....
1. Would the skimmer have impacted the CP levels that fast?
2. I was thinking of doing either a formalin dip or an acriflavine dip to help this fish. Will that help?
3. Will my fluidized sand filter impact the CP? I use that for biological filtration.
4. I also have a sulfur reactor to keep nitrates down. Will that impact the CP
I don't want to shut everything off because then I won't have any filtration... besides the bacteria on the tank walls.
I have a fish with extremely heavy breathing. Not skinny and no external sign of like brook/velvet/ich. Recently I sold some fish to my friend, and very shortly after she started having large losses - fish having this same symptom. I'm not exactly sure what happened. I haven't bought new fish in 6+ months. I took a fish out of a QT tank that was in there for a year and put into system A. I then took known healthy fish from system A and put into system B. I was trying to consolidate and use up available space. In doing this, I transferred something. The fish from Qt never showed symptoms that entire time. I'm wondering if that fish was some how immune - I don't think that's possible.
Anyways, my friend lost fish FAST. Within a few days she lost 10+ fish.
I was thinking this was either the beginning of Brook or Velvet. I have 10 pairs of clowns in this system, and only 1 fish is showing the symptoms. I turned off my UV and added CP. I shutoff a canister filter that had carbon in it. I forgot to shut my skimmer off for a few hours....
1. Would the skimmer have impacted the CP levels that fast?
2. I was thinking of doing either a formalin dip or an acriflavine dip to help this fish. Will that help?
3. Will my fluidized sand filter impact the CP? I use that for biological filtration.
4. I also have a sulfur reactor to keep nitrates down. Will that impact the CP
I don't want to shut everything off because then I won't have any filtration... besides the bacteria on the tank walls.
