Theulli
Active Member
Just putting this out there as I found it interesting - currently have something going around my DT that resembles either Ich or Velvet. Oh my goodness, I had a quarantine tank all set up, was putting fish through a nice long QT procedure, and then went on a hunting trip only to come back to find out that my son had started sharing tools & things between the QT (which was housing a Petco fish) and DT! Argh!!!!
Anyway, I have a few observations that may or may not be useful to people, and I will update this with results as they come in:
1. When I first saw the beginning of something on my butterfly, I started dosing with Herbtana. This 100% did not prevent the disease from advancing, but I do credit it with slowing it down a bit
2. I am now dosing with rally pro and kick ich, daily water changes, after day 1 of this fish are already starting to look much better
3. Most importantly: every fish that was wild caught (except somehow my stripey) is battling an at least a mild infection. Every Biota captive bred fish, (blue damsel, filefish, court jester goby, even the "ich magnet" tang), doesn't have a spot on it. I have to say...I had heard captive bred fish have better immune systems, but wow. Kudos to Biota.
Interesting thing too - I have two cleaner shrimp and a fire shrimp. Cleaner shrimp can't be bothered with this whole thing, but the fire shrimp has been working overtime at his little cleaning station. Not what I expected!
Anyway, I have a few observations that may or may not be useful to people, and I will update this with results as they come in:
1. When I first saw the beginning of something on my butterfly, I started dosing with Herbtana. This 100% did not prevent the disease from advancing, but I do credit it with slowing it down a bit
2. I am now dosing with rally pro and kick ich, daily water changes, after day 1 of this fish are already starting to look much better
3. Most importantly: every fish that was wild caught (except somehow my stripey) is battling an at least a mild infection. Every Biota captive bred fish, (blue damsel, filefish, court jester goby, even the "ich magnet" tang), doesn't have a spot on it. I have to say...I had heard captive bred fish have better immune systems, but wow. Kudos to Biota.
Interesting thing too - I have two cleaner shrimp and a fire shrimp. Cleaner shrimp can't be bothered with this whole thing, but the fire shrimp has been working overtime at his little cleaning station. Not what I expected!
