Post treatment

Llyod276 · Dec 1, 2020

Had a brook outbreak. Ok, so I gave dude, Stargazer, a formalin bath with .6ml per gallon. In a 1 gallon crockpot, yeah I'm ghetto (plus either he's saved or he's gumbo). For ~30 min. Now he's chilling in a qt tank. Let's hope he makes it. So here's the question, the rest of the fish are alright just this guy affected and 4 other clowns (deceased) and 2 pajama cards (also deceased). I only have a 10g qt tank.
Remaining fish:
1x sailfin tang 3-4"
1x pajama Carr
1x 6line wrasse
1×coral beauty 3"

In a 10g they will be crowded for sure. the tank is barely cycled. But should I pull them for the duration and of course bathe them too with formalin? And while they're Ll hating life in a 10g should does the DT w/ metranidazole, I have inverts in there but not in the 10g qt/hospital tank...

Will the brook die off if I leave them? If the other fish are remain asymptomatic?

Jay Hemdal · Dec 1, 2020

A single formalin bath won’t cure Brooklynella, just knock it back some. I see the formalin you are using is lab grade, does it happen to give the methanol content on the label? It’s possible that your remaining fish won’t contract Brook, but I do think that putting them all in a partially cycled 10 gallon prolly won’t work out.
Jay

Llyod276 · Dec 1, 2020

10-15% methyl alcohol.
I figured as much. But well see the qt tank is as sterile as possible. The LV came from just before the brook outbreak. As in, I removed it just before the first infected fish or first fish to Express symptoms, which ever occurred. Hence the death toll was so high first was ignorance second third and fourth and 5th and 6th was I didn't have qt nor formalin. Hopefully, this will curb it. Eradication eventually. He'll (or she'll)get another bath on thursday... but for now he has to survive a partially cycled and boring qt...

Jay Hemdal · Dec 1, 2020

Llyod276 said:
10-15% methyl alcohol.
I figured as much. But well see the qt tank is as sterile as possible. The LV came from just before the brook outbreak. As in, I removed it just before the first infected fish or first fish to Express symptoms, which ever occurred. Hence the death toll was so high first was ignorance second third and fourth and 5th and 6th was I didn't have qt nor formalin. Hopefully, this will curb it. Eradication eventually. He'll (or she'll)get another bath on thursday... but for now he has to survive a partially cycled and boring qt...

That amount of methanol is ok. Do you think the clown is sturdy enough to handle daily dips?
Jay

Llyod276 · Dec 1, 2020

He took a ~30min today; no stress, no hassle. Guess having a black container helped the stress. He the largest I have; he just started showing the signs. And the qt just barely started growing algea on the plastic rock, hence I reckoned it was safe enough, plus the few critters on the LV, sponges and some other stuff, weren't dead, so ammonia and nitrites must have stabilized. Nitrates apparently enough to grow new algea.
Prolly not daily dips till thursday. Cause with the qt stress he may not tolerate anymore excitement. He's my only hope. Otherwise its scratch clowns for the DT.