After my inquiry about irradicating ich vs controlling it, copper was on my to do list but I haven't gotten it yet as I wasn't planning on any new additions until tonight.
It may not be in my wife's budget but it's definitely within mine. Besides, she's the one who first stopped at petco and then had the misfortune of telling me about the tangs
Are there any threads on intramuscular injection in fish? My wife, the nurse, used some colorful words to tell me that she doesn't know how to do that on a fish
In the link below on post #3 Humblefish discusses the injection site and that it would be used to reduce swelling on a fish - for edema.
Thank you!
I only have her in a 5 gallon tank so I'll adjust the dose accordingly. I have a sponge filter in there that's been in my sump for a while so hopefully ammonia doesn't get too high (ammonia badges are on my Amazon order). Are the flukes the most pertinent thing to treat for or should I be concentrating on something else first?
Should I do the 90 minute bath in the fungus cure first?
All I can say about the blue tang is that she's not dead, it's so hard to tell when they're stressed. BTW, after the fwd I've found that the the yellow tang also has flukes. I wish I had a larger tank but I entered into this whole debacle understanding that it may cost me some money to save a life or two. I currently have one blue tang in a 55 gallon tank that's piped to a common 20 gallon sump with a 32 gallon biocube. I have a deep sand bed in my refugium and don't have any issue with nitrates as of now. In the 10 minutes it took me to decide if I should try to save these guys I pictured taking them to my lfs if they recovered. For a new problem; is it a bad idea to add them to my dt with my current blue tang or could she possibly kill them until I can find them a new home? Would it be best to keep them in the qt tanks?
