Marine Velvet, Ich And Second Safest Way To Introduce Fish (without Qt)
My apology in advance for the long rambling post.
After running for 3 years or so without no disease, my tank has finally caught the bug, a bad one.
All of my 3 longest serving fish passed away within a week. :(
I'm not too sure if it's Marine Velvet or Ich; but it started with the Kole and then the 2 clowns.
I did observe white dusty all over my clown with no appetite to eat; it went so quick; all up took 1 week.
I keep questioning myself what may have caused it; given that I do not dip my coral nor dip my fish in the past, but 3 years was a bloody good run and a lucky one.
No changes, no new fish however the only changes that have had happened is:
I am now in fallow stage, and intend to keep the tank fish-less for at least 3 months (just to be safe, as I'm not entirely sure whether it's Amyloodinium or Cryptocaryon).
I do not have QT and don't intend to have one (please don't crucify me :( ); mainly the cost and time to maintain another tank is the issue, and not too mention whether I'll get an approval for it.
What would be my second best option in introducing new fish come 3 months forward? Should I just dump and hope, or am I better with a quick 10 seconds FW dip with Methylene blue?
If I do the latter, I'm just afraid as stress promotes ich/velvet, wouldn't the FW dip stress the fish hence promoting the ich/velvet?
After running for 3 years or so without no disease, my tank has finally caught the bug, a bad one.
All of my 3 longest serving fish passed away within a week. :(
I'm not too sure if it's Marine Velvet or Ich; but it started with the Kole and then the 2 clowns.
I did observe white dusty all over my clown with no appetite to eat; it went so quick; all up took 1 week.
I keep questioning myself what may have caused it; given that I do not dip my coral nor dip my fish in the past, but 3 years was a bloody good run and a lucky one.
No changes, no new fish however the only changes that have had happened is:
- New frags that have been added, in saying that all of water that came with them have been flushed out prior putting them on DT.
- Tank (in the living room) has now got ambiance lights at a longer duration (almost 24 hours) as our newborn sleeps here (we're sleep training her and don't want to disturb her older sister).
- By ambiance light: TV and dim light from the hall way.
- A trial of second hand ATO which was coming from tank shutdown and have been dry for few weeks before I bought them; my work colleague seems to think the parasite may have stayed inside the tube but I highly doubt it, so from my perspective highly unlikely this has caused it.
I am now in fallow stage, and intend to keep the tank fish-less for at least 3 months (just to be safe, as I'm not entirely sure whether it's Amyloodinium or Cryptocaryon).
I do not have QT and don't intend to have one (please don't crucify me :( ); mainly the cost and time to maintain another tank is the issue, and not too mention whether I'll get an approval for it.
What would be my second best option in introducing new fish come 3 months forward? Should I just dump and hope, or am I better with a quick 10 seconds FW dip with Methylene blue?
If I do the latter, I'm just afraid as stress promotes ich/velvet, wouldn't the FW dip stress the fish hence promoting the ich/velvet?