White spot on YWG

[Maritimer]

It's a fishless tank minus the yellow watchman FYI. Does this change anything? Can I treat with him in tank? Could this spread to inverts?

It means that if the goby's out of the tank, any disease that can't survive without a fish host can't survive long in the tank.

Whatever he's got going on, it's _unlikely_ to spread to the inverts. Most diseases affect either fish or inverts - not both.

~Bruce

 

[GHsaltie]

Were you able to catch him yet? How is he today?

 

[Adam113]

I'm unfortunately at work all day as much as I'd love to be home trying to catch the little guy...

 

[jeff williams]

I'm unfortunately at work all day as much as I'd love to be home trying to catch the little guy...

While your trying to catch him you can be feeding him metroplex and focus that way he's at least getting some antibiotics

 

[Adam113]

While your trying to catch him you can be feeding him metroplex and focus that way he's at least getting some antibiotics

Picking up on way home. Will it harm the inverts at all? Honestly I never see him eat out in the water column much. He's not skinny though so I assume he gets into his caves and has feasts.

 

[Humblefish]

Picking up on way home. Will it harm the inverts at all? Honestly I never see him eat out in the water column much. He's not skinny though so I assume he gets into his caves and has feasts.

Using Focus binds the medication to food, thus making it reef safe.

 

[GHsaltie]

Focus binds the metroplex to the food so that the medicine does not leach into the water, however it never hurts to run some carbon to be on the safe side.

 

[Adam113]

Got some focus and sulfaplex. It's what my LFS had. Going to catch him get him quarantined and start medicating tonight.

 

[Adam113]

Well. Got him. That was fun. Already did first dose. Is this heater okay diagonal for a bit?

 

[jeff williams]

Well. Got him. That was fun. Already did first dose. Is this heater okay diagonal for a bit?

Most heaters are ok horizontal as long as there submersible some of the old Jager heaters had to run vertical.

 

[Adam113]

Well. Got him. That was fun. Already did first dose. Is this heater okay diagonal for a bit?

Also what's the typical time period to see some progress? Going to try and grab a small tank from pet store tonight. Wanted to get him into quarantine and being treated ASAP though. So bucket will do for now.

 

[jeff williams]

Also sulfaplex can be dosed in the water and absorbed through the gills so if he isn't eating and he's in qt you can dose it to the water. Never used sulfaplex so not sure on time frame for results but I would bet you should see some kinda improvement in 5-7 days but dose it as recommend by seachem which is something like 2+ weeks

 

[Maritimer]

Also what's the typical time period to see some progress? Going to try and grab a small tank from pet store tonight. Wanted to get him into quarantine and being treated ASAP though. So bucket will do for now.

Bacterial issues are notoriously slow to resolve in fish - ten days or more is pretty usual. Generally recommended to treat for ten days as a minimum, and re-evaluate.

~Bruce

 

[Adam113]

I know this isn't ideal... but I felt bad that the little guy, who has had a house the whole time he's been in my tank, was just out in the open in the bucket. I put a couple "rubble rock" pieces in there for at least tonight and tomorrow. I'm going to grab some PVC pipe tomorrow.

 

[Adam113]

Quick question. How often should I change the water to keep ammonia down? Guy at my LFS was saying it's good when you do the changes to use half and half, display tank water and new saltwater.

Need some guidance to make sure I don't hurt the little guy while trying to mend him.

Thanks!

 

[4FordFamily]

Quick question. How often should I change the water to keep ammonia down? Guy at my LFS was saying it's good when you do the changes to use half and half, display tank water and new saltwater.

Need some guidance to make sure I don't hurt the little guy while trying to mend him.

Thanks!

I would do water changes as needed -- daily 50% in a bucket for at least a couple weeks. Get an ammonia alert badge by seachem and if the indicator is anything other than yellow, do a large water change.

Be sure to replace the antibiotics each time or any meds you end up dosing.

 

[melypr1985]

Quick question. How often should I change the water to keep ammonia down? Guy at my LFS was saying it's good when you do the changes to use half and half, display tank water and new saltwater.

Need some guidance to make sure I don't hurt the little guy while trying to mend him.

Thanks!

I would use fresh saltwater for the water changes.

 

[Adam113]

I would use fresh saltwater for the water changes.

Won't be too much of a shock? How does the cycling process work in a quarantine? Are you basically avoiding the cycle with water changes?

 

[ngoodermuth]

Won't be too much of a shock? How does the cycling process work in a quarantine? Are you basically avoiding the cycle with water changes?

Not necessarily avoiding it, just stretching it out a little and diluting the toxic ammonia with clean water.

Bottled bacteria can help with this as well.

 

[Humblefish]

Won't be too much of a shock? How does the cycling process work in a quarantine? Are you basically avoiding the cycle with water changes?

Shock only occurs if water chemistry does not match between source & destination ... For fish, this is primarily temperature, salinity and to a lesser extent pH.

To a cycle an aquarium (quarantine or otherwise) requires culturing/transporting nitrifying bacteria to bio-media. In a DT, this is your rock & sand, but in a QT something like a sponge in a HOB can be used instead: