kris walker
Active Member
This is long, and I'm sorry for that.
Man, this really stinks. I introduced 4 green chromis into my coral-only tank last week. Now one has what appears to be a cotton-like tuft on his mouth. Funny, cause he was the healthiest looking one out of the 4 of them. But anyway, I looked at the Mardel fish disease chart, and diagnosed him as having "Body Fungus", which is really a bacterial infection. My prevoius attempt was the introduction of a damsel into the tank 2 months ago. It died a week later mysteriously--no external body markings, so presumably due to internal bacterial infection.
It may be that bacterial infections of some sort or another are plaguing my tank. I am assuming this is all in my tank prior to introducing the fish (both 2 sets of fish were bought at separate LFS's). So my question to all of you is what is causing this? For filtration, I have a protein skimmer, 45 lbs LR, 2 in CC, and macroalgae. I also have an emperor filter with pads and inactive carbon.
Do you think not having the carbon active is the problem? If I have active carbon, will it keep the "nonbenefitial" bacteria levels down? Do any of you reef keepers have healthy fish and not use carbon at all (or just once a month like some of you do)?
QT doesn't isn't an issue here because there were no other fish in tank prior to their introduction. So the main tank was an unmediated QT tank.
Finally, I don't want to move this to the disease forum, since 99% of my tank are full of corals, and since I've been following guidelines for keeping corals healthy, and not necessarily fish.
Oh, and I do not vacuum my CC because the critters get most of that junk or it seems to break down naturally (benefits of light to no fish bioload).
Parameters:
0/0/0 ammon/trite/trate
0.2 phosphate
450 ppm Ca
11.5 dKH
8.0 pH
78 F
1.022 s.g.
Thanks,
kris
Man, this really stinks. I introduced 4 green chromis into my coral-only tank last week. Now one has what appears to be a cotton-like tuft on his mouth. Funny, cause he was the healthiest looking one out of the 4 of them. But anyway, I looked at the Mardel fish disease chart, and diagnosed him as having "Body Fungus", which is really a bacterial infection. My prevoius attempt was the introduction of a damsel into the tank 2 months ago. It died a week later mysteriously--no external body markings, so presumably due to internal bacterial infection.
It may be that bacterial infections of some sort or another are plaguing my tank. I am assuming this is all in my tank prior to introducing the fish (both 2 sets of fish were bought at separate LFS's). So my question to all of you is what is causing this? For filtration, I have a protein skimmer, 45 lbs LR, 2 in CC, and macroalgae. I also have an emperor filter with pads and inactive carbon.
Do you think not having the carbon active is the problem? If I have active carbon, will it keep the "nonbenefitial" bacteria levels down? Do any of you reef keepers have healthy fish and not use carbon at all (or just once a month like some of you do)?
QT doesn't isn't an issue here because there were no other fish in tank prior to their introduction. So the main tank was an unmediated QT tank.
Finally, I don't want to move this to the disease forum, since 99% of my tank are full of corals, and since I've been following guidelines for keeping corals healthy, and not necessarily fish.
Oh, and I do not vacuum my CC because the critters get most of that junk or it seems to break down naturally (benefits of light to no fish bioload).
Parameters:
0/0/0 ammon/trite/trate
0.2 phosphate
450 ppm Ca
11.5 dKH
8.0 pH
78 F
1.022 s.g.
Thanks,
kris
Hopefully someone will have good advice for you. By the way, are you the one who left the board for a while to finish up school? Hope it worked out for ya!