Looking for ideas

dbenenh0 · Aug 23, 2017

I've been thinking of trying a new treatment method on this round of fish I currently have in quarantine. The fish are a blue jaw trigger, red coris wrasse, and a female leopard wrasse. Blue jaw has been in quarantine for 2 months or so, red coris 2-3 weeks and leopard wrasse 1-2 weeks.

In the past I've treated everything with cupramine (tang, clowns, fire fish, melanurus wrasse and a twin spot goby). Everything made it through fine but if I can proactively treat with something less harsh I'd like to try it. I'm considering trying chelated copper or the TTM but was wondering what all diseases I could miss by just doing TTM. Also prazipro was and will be used before any copper treatment or TTM is started.

Thanks for the help!

Brew12 · Aug 23, 2017

dbenenh0 said:
I've been thinking of trying a new treatment method on this round of fish I currently have in quarantine. The fish are a blue jaw trigger, red coris wrasse, and a female leopard wrasse. Blue jaw has been in quarantine for 2 months or so, red coris 2-3 weeks and leopard wrasse 1-2 weeks.

In the past I've treated everything with cupramine (tang, clowns, fire fish, melanurus wrasse and a twin spot goby). Everything made it through fine but if I can proactively treat with something less harsh I'd like to try it. I'm considering trying chelated copper or the TTM but was wondering what all diseases I could miss by just doing TTM. Also prazipro was and will be used before any copper treatment or TTM is started.

Thanks for the help!

I always use coppersafe. If Velvet were not so common right now, I would recommend TTM. Unfortunately, velvet is one of the parasites that will make it through standard TTM methods. You can make TTM work for both Ich and Velvet but it requires many more transfers to the point I would worry about stress on the fish.

Humblefish · Aug 23, 2017

Brew12 said:
I always use coppersafe. If Velvet were not so common right now, I would recommend TTM. Unfortunately, velvet is one of the parasites that will make it through standard TTM methods. You can make TTM work for both Ich and Velvet but it requires many more transfers to the point I would worry about stress on the fish.

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