Treatment Protocol. Disease Unknown.

[Brice|F4llen]

Hi all,

Recently had a tank wipeout with the exception of a single clown. I added a RG to a newish tank without any QT and paid dearly.

Learned my lesson the hard way. Long story short, my surviving clown is in a new QT tank that I just set up in the other room. He survived in the original display which is now fallow for 6 weeks since the wipeout. Been observing the quarantined clown for 2 days now and everything seems to be going well after moving tanks. I'm thinking it's time to start the medicating process, but not sure how to begin.

I'm nearly certain he's been exposed to a parasitic infection. But I don't have the expertise to understand which flavor. We were originally thinking gill flukes and then moved on to protozoa. My posts are still up it looks like.

Is the pinned @Jay Hemdal protocol for QT sufficient to treat the surviving clown exposed to some mystery infection? Perhaps I should try a different treatment since it's a near certainty he's been exposed to something I can't diagnose? I have copper, prazi, ruby rally pro, and metroplex in my arsenal.

Looking for advice on how to proceed now that I'm in the position to do so.

Thanks

 

[KrisReef]

If it survived is it possible it has natural immunity?

 

[ThePlummer]

Best research on fallow time is 76 days at 78 degrees. If you can bump up the temp to at least 80.6 degrees and never drop below, you can shorten the time to 44 days.
I’d also consider combining velvet TTM and either peroxide or Hydroplex for the remaining live fish.
If you suspect flukes, I’d also do a 10 minute fresh water dip before starting the TTM protocol.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Hi all,

Recently had a tank wipeout with the exception of a single clown. I added a RG to a newish tank without any QT and paid dearly.

Learned my lesson the hard way. Long story short, my surviving clown is in a new QT tank that I just set up in the other room. He survived in the original display which is now fallow for 6 weeks since the wipeout. Been observing the quarantined clown for 2 days now and everything seems to be going well after moving tanks. I'm thinking it's time to start the medicating process, but not sure how to begin.

I'm nearly certain he's been exposed to a parasitic infection. But I don't have the expertise to understand which flavor. We were originally thinking gill flukes and then moved on to protozoa. My posts are still up it looks like.

Is the pinned @Jay Hemdal protocol for QT sufficient to treat the surviving clown exposed to some mystery infection? Perhaps I should try a different treatment since it's a near certainty he's been exposed to something I can't diagnose? I have copper, prazi, ruby rally pro, and metroplex in my arsenal.

Looking for advice on how to proceed now that I'm in the position to do so.

Thanks

Hi,

The pinned quarantine protocol would work for this fish as a "clearing treatment" since you don't know exactly what the tank had, you don't want this clown to have a festering, chronic infection that it then brings back into your tank. You should leave your main tank fallow for 10 to 12 weeks. What about this? Go out an buy a new fish or two, put them in with the clown and quarantine them all together? Otherwise, you'll need to repeat the quarantine process for any new fish, and then have to run the process twice.

Jay