Uronema treatment

Psychonaut · May 10, 2019

So I have 2 anthias and a Mccoskers wrasse in QT. I had 3 anthias but 1 died almost immediately from what I believe was probably uronema. I’m trying to treat them, so I have General Cure with focus and garlic extract in their food. The problem is none of them really seem to be eating it. They eat a little but the vast majority gets spit back out and settles on the bottom. Today I noticed the wrasse is super reclusive and doesn’t really move he is just sitting still on the side of one of my PVC elbows. Getting nervous this seems to be sort of “last 24 hours” behavior to me

Can I treat them by instead adding the GC to the water column and just go back to regular food? Thank you

Radman73 · May 10, 2019

I used metro in the water column and with food with decent success. For food it was just the metro, focus and food, no garlic.

Link to my thread with experience and actions.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/discoloration-on-anthias-side.537160/

EmdeReef · May 10, 2019

you should treat both the water and try to feed metro.

A ruby rally bath / acriflavine will help jumpstart the treatment. Check the link for more

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/uronema-marinum.247940/

GoldeneyeRet · May 10, 2019

Yes you should add the metro to the water to treat externally. You should also feed it to them to treat this internally as well.

GC contains metro but I prefer to use straight metro for this so you can administer the maximum dose.

ngoodermuth · May 10, 2019

All good advice, get metroplex and treat the water at the higher dosage (2 scoops per 10g).

You can continue to use the GC in the food, but you will need to use at least 2 scoops of GC per tablespoon of food to account for the lower metronidazole concentration. It’s of course just as easy to use metroplex in the food instead.

Psychonaut · May 10, 2019

Cool thanks for the info everybody, got some metroplex in the mail should be here tomorrow or Monday at the latest.

Follow up question; does that look like uronema to y’all??? It didn’t really look like it to me but someone else said it did and since I have no experience with it I took them at their word. It came from LA DD like that, sorta surprised they shipped me a fish with such an obvious complication

Psychonaut · May 10, 2019

Also @Radman73 just read thru your whole thread, thanks for the read; super relevant. Just curious tho... you get those fish from LA?

Radman73 · May 12, 2019

Psychonaut said:
Also @Radman73 just read thru your whole thread, thanks for the read; super relevant. Just curious tho... you get those fish from LA?

Yes. Lost a batch of dis Pat’s to urenoma about a year ago too. Also from LA. If/when I order more, they’ll go straight into a full round of metro. By the time you notice it on one, it’s too late for that fish and seemingly likely one other as well.

I did get 3 females from DD that were in great condition though.

SeaJay · May 12, 2019

Can metro be fed while fish are in copper?

I don’t see signs of uronema, but I did lose a fish to what is very likely urenoma in qt recently and would like to feed some metro just to be safe. Should I wait until copper is finished to do it?