Hi all.......Happy new year!
So we have come to the end of our first year.......what a ride.......
I have a question. We had white spot so we took the boys out,a magnificent foxface (Roger)
a kole tang (Goggles) and a Valentino puffer (Dog). We was prepared, we had sponges cycling in our sump and set up the hospital tank no ammonia no nitrites virtually no nitrates. We contacted seachem and asked their advise on using copper with Dog and they recommended that we slowly raised the copper at half the recommended rate per day and that the minimum dose of 0.3mg/l would be ok but to go for 21 days rather than 14 days.
Well raised the copper level slowly to 0.4mg/l and kept it there for the 21 days.
All the time the water prams were fine. The boys ate well and we added supplements to their food. in the last week we treated with prazipro. Everyone looked great!
Our display stayed fallow for 10 weeks with only hermits cleaner shrimp snails and a pistol.
So after the 10 weeks we put the guys back in to the display. What a happy day!
That was 2 weeks ago and yesterday I noticed a white spot on Rogers pectoral fin and today Goggles has one and Roger has a couple more.
There is a lot of floating bits in the water column as I've just fitted an apex with the wav pumps and I'm looking to do a 50% water change 150L this weekend.
Now is it white spot or.......... if it is how has it happened we have been so so careful.
I hope one of you guys can help us out. Cheers
So we have come to the end of our first year.......what a ride.......
I have a question. We had white spot so we took the boys out,a magnificent foxface (Roger)
a kole tang (Goggles) and a Valentino puffer (Dog). We was prepared, we had sponges cycling in our sump and set up the hospital tank no ammonia no nitrites virtually no nitrates. We contacted seachem and asked their advise on using copper with Dog and they recommended that we slowly raised the copper at half the recommended rate per day and that the minimum dose of 0.3mg/l would be ok but to go for 21 days rather than 14 days.
Well raised the copper level slowly to 0.4mg/l and kept it there for the 21 days.
All the time the water prams were fine. The boys ate well and we added supplements to their food. in the last week we treated with prazipro. Everyone looked great!
Our display stayed fallow for 10 weeks with only hermits cleaner shrimp snails and a pistol.
So after the 10 weeks we put the guys back in to the display. What a happy day!
That was 2 weeks ago and yesterday I noticed a white spot on Rogers pectoral fin and today Goggles has one and Roger has a couple more.
There is a lot of floating bits in the water column as I've just fitted an apex with the wav pumps and I'm looking to do a 50% water change 150L this weekend.
Now is it white spot or.......... if it is how has it happened we have been so so careful.
I hope one of you guys can help us out. Cheers