White eyed coral beauty

smokin'reefer · May 31, 2016

Qt up and going. Ran some sump rock and wc water and available bact as domination2580 suggested. Removed rock tonight to start erythromycin treatment. Coral Beauty looking much better.

Getting better pix now. I have to go back out of town but i think my daughter can handle from here. Thanx again to the [HASHTAG]#reefsquad[/HASHTAG] for your help with this.

Humblefish · May 31, 2016

smokin'reefer said:
Sounds like the way my personal Dr. does it.

The next time I get hammered for diagnosing a fish disease without a skin scrape, scope ID, etc. I'm gonna remind the person that "real doctors" are diagnosing human patients nowadays using phone/video chat

: https://welcome.mdlive.com/

smokin'reefer · May 31, 2016

Humblefish said:
The next time I get hammered for diagnosing a fish disease without a skin scrape, scope ID, etc. I'm gonna remind the person that "real doctors" are diagnosing human patients nowadays via phone/video chat : https://welcome.mdlive.com/

Mine does that quite often to because of how much I travel, but I was refering to best guess on meds to see what happens. Lol

smokin'reefer · Jun 4, 2016

Another update:
I'm in day 4 of the eurythmics treatment. I don't see much improvement, daughter seems to rhink swelling has gone down.

Will do 25% wc tonite and put carbon back in filter. I believe I am supposed to give him a break for 2 days and then start another 4 day round. He is still active and no out of ordinary behavior. He might be permanant in qt if eye doesn't look better after time.

Humblefish · Jun 4, 2016

smokin'reefer said:
Will do 25% wc tonite and put carbon back in filter. I believe I am supposed to give him a break for 2 days and then start another 4 day round. He is still active and no out of ordinary behavior. He might be permanant in qt if eye doesn't look better after time.

No break; do the WC and keep on dosing.

A fish will often require exposure to antibiotics for 10 consecutive days before you start to see signs of improvement.

If no improvement after 10 days, I would hit him with the kitchen sink: Furan-2, Kanaplex & Metroplex combined. This will achieve the widest possible spectrum of treatment. Remember, you're not just trying to save the one eye (which he can live without), but also prevent the infection from spreading to his other eye (which would mean a death sentence).

smokin'reefer · Jun 5, 2016

Will do. I will continue treatment as prescribed. Thanks again for all of your input and time.

smokin'reefer · Jun 6, 2016

Poor guy didn't make it thru day 5. Could have been any number of things but I am looking at what can be learned from ordeal.
1. Qt on ready a must
2. All additions herafter will go thru qt regimen.
3. Post on R2R before spending 2 days googling.
Thanks again to the reef squad for all of your help.