Lesson being learned

[Mickie]

I lost 28 fish in 2 days from velvet ( I didn't know what it was then) that came in on a coral beauty who looked perfectly fine. Guess who survived? Yep the coral beauty and I still have him today. But the lfs had me treating my fish with something that would never have helped velvet. So I lost everything but him. Thank God for forums like this today!

How awful! I'm pretty new to diseases and issues, so I waited too long on this one.

Hopefully my other fish will be okay. 28 though, ugh. I'd be rocking myself in the corner.

 

[Mickie]

Couldn't agree more, so many people on here have helped and I have gained so much experience treating disease on here!

I should have been on here earlier!

 

[evan-beachouse-45]

How awful! I'm pretty new to diseases and issues, so I waited too long on this one.

Hopefully my other fish will be okay. 28 though, ugh. I'd be rocking myself in the corner.

I lost around that amount of clowns it's not even the money, I just feel like an irresponsible fish owner

 

[prsnlty]

How awful! I'm pretty new to diseases and issues, so I waited too long on this one.

Hopefully my other fish will be okay. 28 though, ugh. I'd be rocking myself in the corner.

Yes it was a horrible thing and I drove to my local store which was an hour away three separate times because everything they kept giving me was not doing any good in those two days. As a matter of fact if I remember correctly that is partly why I joined reef2reef 6 years ago

 

[Mickie]

I lost around that amount of clowns it's not even the money, I just feel like an irresponsible fish owner

That's my biggest issue. I feel like I failed him, and Irresponsible. Lol.

 

[prsnlty]

I hope your wrasse makes it, I feel your pain [emoji26]

 

[Mickie]

I hope your wrasse makes it, I feel your pain [emoji26]

Me too. Thank you guys, I do feel slightly better than awful about all this. Lol.

 

[prsnlty]

That's my biggest issue. I feel like I failed him, and Irresponsible. Lol.

It happens to us all at some point. Take it as a learning experience if he doesn't make it and hopefully the rest of them will be fine. And now even if they do show signs of sickness you'll have the medication to help them. You wouldn't know what to look for if it didn't happen sadly...

 

[Mickie]

It happens to us all at some point. Take it as a learning experience if he doesn't make it and hopefully the rest of them will be fine. And now even if they do show signs of sickness you'll have the medication to help them. You wouldn't know what to look for if it didn't happen sadly...

True

 

[prsnlty]

Here is some excellent info you might want to check out and bookmark. Fish disease index & Pictorial
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/285708/
Fish treatment guidelines with chart
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/283450/

 

[Mickie]

Here is some excellent info you might want to check out and bookmark. Fish disease index & Pictorial
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/285708/
Fish treatment guidelines with chart
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/283450/

Thank you!

 

[prsnlty]

Thank you!

You're welcome [emoji3] let us know how things work out tomorrow.

 

[Mickie]

He's gone. Sad. I had him in a qt tank with metro. He had a little seizure and passed.
Are you guys still thinking uronema? Or do you think it could be a bacterial infection from an injury?

 

[prsnlty]

I think you need to see if your lfs will honor store credit or refund. What ever he has I doubt he got it simply from the ride home. I have never seen that disease in person however it looks like it.

 

[prsnlty]

I'm sorry you lost him

 

[evan-beachouse-45]

I'm sorry you lost him

So sorry looks bacterial to me

 

[Mickie]

So sorry looks bacterial to me

Would a bacterial infection kill that fast? Or is that secondary to maybe an injury that became septic?

 

[Maritimer]

Some bacterial infections kill _remarkably_ fast - and most of them take between ten and as many as fourteen days to treat.

I'm sorry you lost this beautiful fellow, but heartened to know that you'll be prepared for the next one (though not-so-secretly hoping that the "next one" doesn't come).

~Bruce

 

[4FordFamily]

That may well be a gram negative infection if it worsened that quickly. In the future, furan 2, metroplex, and kanaplex together would be my suggestion -- wide band of effectiveness.

In this case I think you lost before you ever started, so don't beat yourself up. Sorry for your loss!

 

[ngoodermuth]

I agree with the last two posts^

This does not look like uronema to me, but a severe bacterial infection.

Some medicines that are useful to keep on hand:
Ruby reef rally, API fungus cure, or acriflavine-ms (Acriflavine

https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/Acriflavine.282887/)

And either kanaplex/metroplex/furan-2 like mentioned above, or nitrofuracin green.

Antibiotics

https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/Antibiotics.283711/

I'm sorry for your loss An infection that aggressive would have been difficult to treat even with all the medications on hand.