Should I worry?

[Griff]

Oh would it hurt to mix it with their food on the off day of dosing?

 

[Humblefish]

Took out the chromies tonight and did 50% water change. I'll dose again day after tomorrow. Think I should do another large water change before next dose?

You can safely mix metro with copper (if that's still present in the water.) You also don't necessarily have to do WCs in-between metro dosages, but it also (obviously) won't hurt anything.

Also is the fresh water dip before going into display helpful? How much better is the formalin bath?

I've only used a FW dip (or formalin) for temporary relief before placing the fish in a QT and treating with CP. So, I don't have much faith in either for complete eradication of uronema.

Also My old tank is empty but not drained. Would you treat for 1 week then move to the old tank for observation or would you go straight to the dt after 1 week treatment? I think I know the answer to this one based on what I'm dealing with.

So long as you are sure the old tank is disease-free, I think I would use it for observation. Uronema is not something you want to take any chances with.

Oh would it hurt to mix it with their food on the off day of dosing?

I would stick with dosing it in the water.

 

[Griff]

I've been using metro for a little over a week now. No signs of uronema yet. Plan is to do FW dip then transfer to observation tank for one week. After that into display.

Do you think one week observation is enough?

 

[Humblefish]

I've been using metro for a little over a week now. No signs of uronema yet. Plan is to do FW dip then transfer to observation tank for one week. After that into display.

Do you think one week observation is enough?

Yes, uronema will resurface quickly if it is present on the fish. Good game plan BTW.

 

[Griff]

Yes, uronema will resurface quickly if it is present on the fish. Good game plan BTW.

Thanks, I really do appreciate all your help.

Washed out the old tank with the hose tonight. Will let dry 24 hours before putting the new water in it.

 

[Griff]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/yellow-tang-fw-dip-help-pls.263012/

Yellow tang didn't make it through FW dip. Died 3 hours after dip. Everyone else seems ok so far.

 

[Griff]

Other fish all seem lethargic but lights are still down. I hope the rest of them are ok

 

[Griff]

Other fish aren't eating this morning.

 

[Humblefish]

Just seeing this now. Are all the other fish swimming OK? I'm sorry to hear about the YT.

 

[Griff]

Yeah. Still seem disoriented a little hippo and wrasse are this morning clowns did not

 

[Griff]

I'm so distraught. How many days till you think I'm safe to move them to display

 

[Humblefish]

I'm so distraught. How many days till you think I'm safe to move them to display

1 week

 

[Griff]

I'm tempted to drive to incredible corals which is much more reputable and buy a new YT and add him to observation tank.

 

[Griff]

I still need to drain HT and sanitize.

 

[Humblefish]

I'm tempted to drive to incredible corals which is much more reputable and buy a new YT and add him to observation tank.

I would just run another YT thru your QT protocol next go around.

 

[Griff]

I know

 

[Humblefish]

Sorry man, I know it sucks.

What kind of water did you use to do the FW dip? RODI? Dechlorinated tap? Also, do you have postmortem pics of the YT?

 

[Griff]

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No pics. RODI and I spent like 2 hours making sure the ph was as close as possible between the 3 bodies of water (qt,dip,observation)

There seemed to be some bleeding from the gills. Not 100% sure of that but that's a guess. Otherwise he looked fine. Maybe 4 min was to long?

Also the observation tank is not cycled. How often do I need to check ammonia?

 

[Griff]

As of right now it's been running 24 hours

 

[Humblefish]

There seemed to be some bleeding from the gills.

This is interesting (not in a good way). I recently FW dipped a YT and the area just behind the pectoral fin had this redness post dip:



This photo was taken just before the FW dip:



I ended up losing the fish (long story). But does this look anything like what you saw on yours?