Help during CP treatment for velvet please.

[Salt1823]

I have a clown and an angel that have been in CP for 14 days today. Angel has been great. I lost my male longfin clown and a diamond goby during treatment. The little clown was swimming sideways and upside down like a swim bladder issue before he died. Now my normal female clown is doing this same thing. She can flip back over & swim normally at times. What should I do transfer into clean tank? Any advice please? @Big G & @HotRocks you all have been so much help! Looks like fin could be a little frayed and white stringy poo. Could parasites be causing this? I plan to treat with General Cure. Angel is behaving normally & eating well.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Sorry for the losses
Where did you source the cp, and what dosage? Have you monitored ammonia? How are you creating oxygen replacement with the flow?

 

[4FordFamily]

Are you fishing prime to battle ammonia?

Swim bladder issues are unlucky and likely not related to the issues you’re having. White stringy poop will require GC or Metroplex soaked food with Seachem focus mixed in to bind the meds to the food. Feed for 10-14 days if it eats.

This will also help a bit with the swim bladder infection — can you post a video of the behavior? You can also lance the swim bladder with a needle, this works most of the time. It should be swollen pretty obviously now and easy to find/puncture.

 

[Big G]

+1 This ^^^ exactly.

 

[Salt1823]

I have ammonia alert badge. Huge hob filter and a sponge filter with air pump. I have used prime to help with ammonia. 80mg cp due to velvet. They are in a 50 gallon & are small fish. I have done water changes and dosed new water before adding to tank. I will get a video

 

[Millimylilly]

Did the new water you added have CP in it?

 

[Salt1823]

Did the new water you added have CP in it?

Yes new water added had cp added before it went in tank.

 

[Salt1823]

She's mostly just swimming sideways and vertical now. I can't get video to load it keeps giving me an error message.

 

[Millimylilly]

How’s the oxygen in the tank. R u running a skimmer w/o actually skimming?

 

[Salt1823]

This message

 

[Millimylilly]

Hmm is that on PC? I only use Tapatalk on my phone

 

[Salt1823]

How’s the oxygen in the tank. R u running a skimmer w/o actually skimming?

Not on PC just from my phone. I have this running for oxygen in tank. And a sponge filter with air pump.

 

[Millimylilly]

What is adding oxygen? The water falling into the tank?

 

[Salt1823]

What is adding oxygen? The water falling into the tank?

Yes and the air pump

 

[Millimylilly]

With the medication in the water that might not be enough

 

[Salt1823]

Are you fishing prime to battle ammonia?

Swim bladder issues are unlucky and likely not related to the issues you’re having. White stringy poop will require GC or Metroplex soaked food with Seachem focus mixed in to bind the meds to the food. Feed for 10-14 days if it eats.

This will also help a bit with the swim bladder infection — can you post a video of the behavior? You can also lance the swim bladder with a needle, this works most of the time. It should be swollen pretty obviously now and easy to find/puncture.

I can't get a video to load. I will start soaking food in gc

 

[Salt1823]

Came home to my angel laying on bottom of CP tank last night. She's been doing great the whole way. Been in CP at 80mg since 6/13. Now she's got frayed fins and is discolored. She's doing the wierd thing that my two clowns did, when she does swim. Swimming sideways and vertical. What is going on with this? I'm at a loss... my bigger female clown improved when I took clown out of CP at day 14 and put her in a clean tank with general cure, furan2 and kanaplex. I've been feeding gc also. I put the angel in tank with the clown and she's so sick now that she's laying on the bottom. So upset about this fish