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[LivingSalty]

It should stay in the DT and NOT be treated with copper.

Thank you for all of your help. I appreciate it so much.

 

[Fish Styx]

Thank you for all of your help. I appreciate it so much.

No worries at all, I'm happy to do so. I hope everything works out. Please keep us posted.

Namaste.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Would it be ea

Would it be easier to remove the inverts and treat the DT with fish in it? We don’t have a big enough QT tank for the fish we have to all be placed in there, but if I don’t treat I stand to lose thousands in fish. Not really worried about the money, I just love my fish and want to give them the best chance of survival.

You can remove the invertebrates and treat your DT fish with hyposalinity for ich, but copper leaves residual toxins that invertebrates don’t like.
Your fallow period should be a minimum of 45 days at 81 degrees, but 60 is safer.
Don’t dose other medications with copper unless you see specific signs of disease.
Jay

 

[LivingSalty]

You can remove the invertebrates and treat your DT fish with hyposalinity for ich, but copper leaves residual toxins that invertebrates don’t like.
Your fallow period should be a minimum of 45 days at 81 degrees, but 60 is safer.
Don’t dose other medications with copper unless you see specific signs of disease.
Jay

I just reconstructed my 90 gallon tank and will be pumping the water from my 180 into it to fill it. My main worry is that this tank is not established at all. Will the water carry enough bacteria to “cycle” the tank right from the get go?

 

[Tamberav]

I just reconstructed my 90 gallon tank and will be pumping the water from my 180 into it to fill it. My main worry is that this tank is not established at all. Will the water carry enough bacteria to “cycle” the tank right from the get go?

The 90 needs a sponge filter or something for the bacteria to reside. The water will have some but I suggest you dose biospira to the 90 to set it up.

Biospira worked for hyposalinity for me.

 

[LivingSalty]

Tips on copper test kit? API strips or Hanna tester?

 

[Fish Styx]

Tips on copper test kit? API strips or Hanna tester?

I use the Hanna

 

[LivingSalty]

You can remove the invertebrates and treat your DT fish with hyposalinity for ich, but copper leaves residual toxins that invertebrates don’t like.
Your fallow period should be a minimum of 45 days at 81 degrees, but 60 is safer.
Don’t dose other medications with copper unless you see specific signs of disease.
Jay

Hey Jay,

do you think this could be brooklynella? My black clownfish is turning from completely black to white all of a sudden.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I just reconstructed my 90 gallon tank and will be pumping the water from my 180 into it to fill it. My main worry is that this tank is not established at all. Will the water carry enough bacteria to “cycle” the tank right from the get go?

No, the water itself has very little bacteria in it. Do you have any non-calcium filter media you could move over?
Jay

 

[LivingSalty]

This is him now. He was a very deep black.

 

[LivingSalty]

No, the water itself has very little bacteria in it. Do you have any non-calcium filter media you could move over?
Jay

Yes, I’ll pull the filters, skimmer, and even some rock that I’ll throw out to ensure plenty of becateria is transferred over.

 

[LivingSalty]

No, the water itself has very little bacteria in it. Do you have any non-calcium filter media you could move over?
Jay

Just posted some updated pics of my black clownfish so you can see what I mean by him turning white. If it is brooklynella, is there any chance of survival at this point? Can other fish get it besides clownfish?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Just posted some updated pics of my black clownfish so you can see what I mean by him turning white. If it is brooklynella, is there any chance of survival at this point? Can other fish get it besides clownfish?

That could be brooklynella, copper won’t treat that. Mostly clowns catch it, but random other fish will get it also if a clown in the tank has a bad case of it.
Jay

 

[LivingSalty]

That could be brooklynella, copper won’t treat that. Mostly clowns catch it, but random other fish will get it also if a clown in the tank has a bad case of it.
Jay

The fish seems overall fine, and the black clown seems to be the only one covered like that. The boxfish still has a few white dots, but seems to have cleared up a bit since being put in a small QT tank. I did 1/8th of a teaspoon of copper power to a 1 gallon QT tank for the boxfish last night. What can I do to treat the clowns if it is Brook? We have three in total with the black clown being the only one covered like that. Our orange clown has 1 single speck of white on his fin, but could’ve been there prior. Also have a sailfin tang and other dish but it doesn’t look like they have any issues.

 

[LivingSalty]

That could be brooklynella, copper won’t treat that. Mostly clowns catch it, but random other fish will get it also if a clown in the tank has a bad case of it.
Jay

Just looked at my filefish and realized he has white things sticking out of his sides. Little white things that look worm like almost but very small.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Just looked at my filefish and realized he has white things sticking out of his sides. Little white things that look worm like almost but very small.

That can be normal for filefish, look online at pictures and see if it matches yours.
Jay

 

[LivingSalty]

That can be normal for filefish, look online at pictures and see if it matches yours.
Jay

Okay, good. Sorry, just slowly losing it as I want my fish to live. I’ve been feeding heavily to keep them strong until my QT tank finishes getting setup and my Hanna tester comes in. I appreciate all of your help!

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

The fish seems overall fine, and the black clown seems to be the only one covered like that. The boxfish still has a few white dots, but seems to have cleared up a bit since being put in a small QT tank. I did 1/8th of a teaspoon of copper power to a 1 gallon QT tank for the boxfish last night. What can I do to treat the clowns if it is Brook? We have three in total with the black clown being the only one covered like that. Our orange clown has 1 single speck of white on his fin, but could’ve been there prior. Also have a sailfin tang and other dish but it doesn’t look like they have any issues.

The boxfish has ich, the clown has either ich or brooklynella or both. Treating for both isn’t really possible. I think you should just stick with either copper and hope the fish can ride it out. Maybe somebody else here has an idea for you?
Jay

 

[jimmypencil]

im in the same situation. mild ich for a couple months that i didnt worry about but now one of my clowns seems to have brook. based on this thread i may just qt the clowns and treat them but leave all other fish in the dt. Should i still dose the ruby rally pro to my dt if i have sps and lps corals?

any way how is your situation going?

 

[LivingSalty]

im in the same situation. mild ich for a couple months that i didnt worry about but now one of my clowns seems to have brook. based on this thread i may just qt the clowns and treat them but leave all other fish in the dt. Should i still dose the ruby rally pro to my dt if i have sps and lps corals?

any way how is your situation going?

My boxfish is still covered, but seems very happy. I posted another thread after the company that keeps up my tank accidentally dosed my DT with copper instead of my QT tank. So my nems and corals died. At this point, I’m just going to dose my DT and kill all of the parasites and go from there. My black clown died unfortunately but everyone else is doing well.