So today is the final day (day 20) of the Polyplab Medic treatment. I believe twenty days is the maximum, and if the use of Medic is continued beyond twenty days, it can start to have a bad effect on the tank......Unless someone can tell me otherwise?
All the fish look healthy. There are no bad signs anywhere. Has the problem been fixed, or is it still there? I don't know. Have I managed to build-up the fishes immunity systems sufficiently? I don't know.
So, I will now just leave the tank for two or three weeks, to see if everything is indeed hunky dory. I suppose I won't really know until I add another fish into the tank.
Here is the frustrating thing. We all want to control our tanks. We measure/monitor all the vital parameters. With just small changes, we can control those parameters, bringing them up or lowering them. We spend a fortune on equipment, these lights those lights, this filter that filter etc, but when it comes to a disease, we haven't got a clue. We are basically stumbling around in the dark. Yes yes, I know, we should all create a Hospital Tank and treat that way, but even doing that is no guarantee of success. Just read the various forums. QT everything before it goes into your tank, but this does not guarantee anything. Put all fish into a HT and treat with Copper, but this does not guarantee success.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the identification and treatment of disease in the aquarium is the one area that needs improving the most in our hobby. With disease there is nothing to measure. There is nothing to control. In reality, the only way you can tell if the treatment is working is the lack of dead bodies. It shouldn't be like this.
If there is any good news to emerge from all of this, it's that my prized Zoa colony, that was destroyed by the Regal Angel before it shot off it's metabolic coil, is still alive and has at least twelve small heads/flowers/polyps/whatever you call them growing.
Anyway, it's high fives time to Polyplab Medic. I don't know if it has solved the problem, but I do know that I haven't lost a single fish since I started the medication, and fish that were showing symptoms of illness now look healthy, which in my humble opinion, makes Medic a winner.
To use a popular military term, it's now "hurry up and wait" time.