sickboy
Active Member
Ok, to start off, I was stupid and didn't use my QT
Ok, so I bought a Hector's Goby from a store that I don't buy fish from, but with this one I did. In the store he looked fine and I stupidly acclimated him and put him in the tank. Today I noticed that he is getting covered with white spots.
Now, I have a 10 gallon QT that I could use for copper treatment, but I have noticed that the firefish are starting to rub themselves on the sand and I was wondering if there is a treatment that i can use in the tank?
I have a nano that I could put the corals in, and a huge bucket to put the rock in, but the 10 gallon would be full with the hector's goby, 2 firefish, 1 black saddleback, 1 orchid dottyback, and 1 mandarin goby. I would have to pull all of the rock out to catch the fish anyway, so that is why I was wondering if there was an effective non-copper treatment.
I have read the threads about the 2 week life cycle, and I'm sure that if there was a different treatment it would be posted on here, I'm just trying to figure out what to do. Do I just pull the rock and corals out anyway, but only put the infected fish in the 10 gallon? The tank is a 38 gallon. And what do I do with the mandarin? There is about 60 lbs of live rock, but I still have to dump copepods in about once a week to keep him 'plump', and I think he would clean out the pods in a day or two without the rock in there.
Besides the 6 small fish, I also have crabs and snails in there. And i don't know if the sps would live under the power compacts in the nano for 2 months, but I could dip them and put them at a friends house.
Any help would be great, I realize I'm an idiot for not putting it in QT, but what is done is done I guess, so what's next?
Ok, so I bought a Hector's Goby from a store that I don't buy fish from, but with this one I did. In the store he looked fine and I stupidly acclimated him and put him in the tank. Today I noticed that he is getting covered with white spots.
Now, I have a 10 gallon QT that I could use for copper treatment, but I have noticed that the firefish are starting to rub themselves on the sand and I was wondering if there is a treatment that i can use in the tank?
I have a nano that I could put the corals in, and a huge bucket to put the rock in, but the 10 gallon would be full with the hector's goby, 2 firefish, 1 black saddleback, 1 orchid dottyback, and 1 mandarin goby. I would have to pull all of the rock out to catch the fish anyway, so that is why I was wondering if there was an effective non-copper treatment.
I have read the threads about the 2 week life cycle, and I'm sure that if there was a different treatment it would be posted on here, I'm just trying to figure out what to do. Do I just pull the rock and corals out anyway, but only put the infected fish in the 10 gallon? The tank is a 38 gallon. And what do I do with the mandarin? There is about 60 lbs of live rock, but I still have to dump copepods in about once a week to keep him 'plump', and I think he would clean out the pods in a day or two without the rock in there.
Besides the 6 small fish, I also have crabs and snails in there. And i don't know if the sps would live under the power compacts in the nano for 2 months, but I could dip them and put them at a friends house.
Any help would be great, I realize I'm an idiot for not putting it in QT, but what is done is done I guess, so what's next?
