Hi again to Lee and anyone else who might be reading this,
Back with some update.
The Tang has been in Cupramine treatment in the 45G and today is supposingly the finish date of the treatment.
Cupramine has been kept in 0.5ppm for the past 14 days. It has been checked and confirmed by an API test kit and the suggested Salifert test kit (yes, I finally got one!)
Unfortunately, the Cupramine didn't seem to have cured the symptoms.
The symptoms are more or less still the same.
Here is a recap of the previous symptoms along with any other new ones that i have found lately:
1) persistent, non-moving white spots around face and lateral line. Ich has pretty much been ruled out due to no "comes and goes" .
2) listlessness
3) constant state of fear. Fish hides at the back corner, behind a PVC pipe almost all day long, never venture more than, say, 10inches from the corner. He either lay flat on the bottom or up-straight laying against the side glass. (he does come out to the front glass for the seaweed though, when I’m not around)
4) Seems to be getting picky at what food he will eat. Used to eat Mysis, pellet, varieties of fronzen food, and Seaweeds. Now he pretty much only eats mysis and green, purple, and little bit of red seaweed. (I must add that he seems to have gain a bit weight around the stomach area though)
The following is the list of treatment that I have tried so far:
1) Hyposalinity for over 1 month (around 6 weeks? I can’t clearly remember by now but it was way over the suggested treatment length)
2) Maracyn-Two full treatment length
3) Cupramine 14 days at 0.5ppm
The Tang has been in this QT since March 31st. So it approaching three months now.
So now that the recap is over I am wondering if anyone, namely Lee (thanks so much) has any suggestion on what I can do next.
Do the persistent white spot, listlessness, and alertness ring any bell of a specific parasite?
I see lots of board range parasite treatment from a number of manufactures, such as Mardel, Jungle Labs, Aquarium Product, and etc. I am especially interested in a type of fizzy dissolving tablet from Jungle lab that states to cure multiple parasites. Could/Should I try such product?
Any comment will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!