so what is the best course of prevention action to take in qt? I know Metroplex is one treatment, but is it 100% effective against it? how long should the treatment be with it if treating prophylactically? Formalin doesn't kill it either right?
This is one disease that scares me the most in this hobby lately!
Metroplex takes care of it, CP does too externally but in both cases you want to feed metroplex and focus soaked foods because it can spread and live internally per
@Humblefish. This is definitely scary!
That is crazy.....and so scary at the same time! It has to be about as frustrating for the LFS as it is for us. Plus if you don't QT and it gets in your DT game over right?! No fallow period would work! You would have to do a complete tank breakdown...and toss everything....LR...sand...etc. I think I would be so paranoid I would even get rid the whole tank and start with a brand new one just in case.
I am just curious what changed in the last several years that this disease has become more widespread? More fish entering the supply chain? More people in the hobby than ever before?
I think the distribution system in the US is getting sloppy and it’s more about moving fish to the end destination before it dies than it is the quality of fish. I am having trouble finding a way to defend them. It seems that the distribution system is horrific across the board, I cannot be sure if it is limited to one or two.
All we can do at this point is learn how to treat fish upon arrival and give them a fighting chance. I’d say to stop buying from places like this but it’s bad from other sources as well. 90% of my experience is from QM but I hear the other big wholesalers are having bad issues as well. I think we as hobbyists just have to step our game up with treatment and quarantine. I know we have had to here.
If anyone finds sources that don’t have these issues this large-scale (I’m not talking a purchase of a few fish I mean a dozen or even dozens of fish at a time large scale like
@HotRocks and I do). I’m open of course to any experience but people that do a lot of this will have a larger sample size, obviously.
Just had a discussion with the owner of my lfs yesterday. His comment was about the same as what you mentioned. He said it's bad, loosing allot and DOA's seems to be increasing. He said he lost everyone of his anthias from last week's shipment to Uronema. Zero made it over night in his Qt
That’s sad, my two LFS I use locally here share with me their woes, and they’re in the same boat.
As I think about this more, I also suspect the root issue may NOT be QM or any other wholesaler. I highly suspect that the suppliers of the wholesalers are cutting corners and expenses because they're unsure if they will be around/able to collect and sell tomorrow. All of this talk about banning shipments of coral and fish around the world -- it's no surprise. It's tough to justify the capital investment if you don't know if your business will be around next week, it changes everything to a short-term focus.
