Gregcoyote
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BRS clear mesh. There is no downside to it except you have to look at it in some installs.
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Man so sorry to hear! You're not alone though, I also do not own a quarantine tank and have never quarantined my fish though the guy I deal with treats ask guys fish with copper upon purchase. Hope things work out for you man.So, up till now, I've never quarantined a single fish- I've imported box after box of wild caught fish and sold them to folks and have seen very few deaths over the years- I could count them on one hand. A few weeks ago however, I bought a single box of fish and distributed them to 3 entirely different systems, and they all did fine, until a few days ago.
Out of the entire box of fish, only two remain (the bornonius anythias I imagine was sick and jumped as a result), and of the two fish, only one doesn't appear sick. Besides that, not only did the new fish die, but they took all the existing fish with them. In my own tank at the moment, I have the blue throat trigger, who looks sick, and the flame angel who doesn't, and also my original yellow tang, who shows no signs of illness at the moment.
On all of the fish there was ich present, but this was not the cause of death. The amount of ich was minimal and I'm guessing was a symptom of the parasite that actually killed the fish.
Sea Dwelling Creatures suggested it was eye flukes, and one of my local friends thinks it's brooklynella. Slime coat increased, and it appeared as though the fish was shedding skin- especially in the head area, but the entire body of most of the fish was eventually covered. The eyes got foggy, and at the end, they could no longer see. They did eat up until the day they died though, which I found surprising.
Since being as horrible as it was, it was an extremely isolated incident, I have not changed my practices. I still feel a QT tank is more stressful than my display.
I'm letting this play out and what happens, happens. if the tank is wiped out, I'll ghost feed for a couple months and try again (from a different vendor, of course).
It's such a complex decision as to QT or not. I guess in a perfect world and if I had the room to set up a really proper QT, that it would be the prudent thing to do. But I don't and just using a bare extra tank with a heater doesn't fit my description of a calm soothing environment meant to heal and rest up. At what point does the QT make disease outbreak more or less likely to a new fish?
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So, up till now, I've never quarantined a single fish- I've imported box after box of wild caught fish and sold them to folks and have seen very few deaths over the years- I could count them on one hand. A few weeks ago however, I bought a single box of fish and distributed them to 3 entirely different systems, and they all did fine, until a few days ago.
Out of the entire box of fish, only two remain (the bornonius anythias I imagine was sick and jumped as a result), and of the two fish, only one doesn't appear sick. Besides that, not only did the new fish die, but they took all the existing fish with them. In my own tank at the moment, I have the blue throat trigger, who looks sick, and the flame angel who doesn't, and also my original yellow tang, who shows no signs of illness at the moment.
On all of the fish there was ich present, but this was not the cause of death. The amount of ich was minimal and I'm guessing was a symptom of the parasite that actually killed the fish.
Sea Dwelling Creatures suggested it was eye flukes, and one of my local friends thinks it's brooklynella. Slime coat increased, and it appeared as though the fish was shedding skin- especially in the head area, but the entire body of most of the fish was eventually covered. The eyes got foggy, and at the end, they could no longer see. They did eat up until the day they died though, which I found surprising.
Since being as horrible as it was, it was an extremely isolated incident, I have not changed my practices. I still feel a QT tank is more stressful than my display.
I'm letting this play out and what happens, happens. if the tank is wiped out, I'll ghost feed for a couple months and try again (from a different vendor, of course).
The trigger had whatever disease or parasite....I believe this provoked his jump. I imagine it's a bit uncomfortable to be feasted on alive. Frankly, I wish my tank was void of fish...but these two stragglers look 100% healthy. I hope they aren't unaffected hosts.
I don't know...but no other signs of stress/distress were seen for approximately 2 weeks. they all got over the initial "hey...I'm in a glass box instead of the ocean" syndrome and adapted to eating everything I threw at them and then all of the sudden, they all started dropping like flies.
I didn't see any redness on any fish, nor inflammation. Mouths gaping, breathing heavily, slimy heads (almost resembling the skin just peeling off and blowing away), cloudy eyes, and apparent blindness towards the very end. Some of the fish turned a pale gray/almost white towards the end as well. One thing is for certain...it wasn't a peaceful death.
I was wondering if these fish could be suffering from cyanide poisoning from capture.Oh Jesus, I'm so sorry. Sounds like radiation poisoning, like they were hit with a freaking nuke or something. I'm sure you'd rather forget this so I'm done with my questions