kspink
New Member
Hi,
We bought our first fish-a red-lipped blennie. Put him in a quaratine tank that had been cycled for months-but we cleaned out the substrate before we added him and only put back some PVC pipe (as suggested). (this may have been a mistake in that the tank did not have a chance to recycle before we added the fish). Anyway, we gave him a fresh water/methylene blue dip and then put him in the tank. We did daily water changes to try to keep the ammonia down were never able to keep up (It remained around 0.1 no matter what we tried). We even sacrificed some live rock from the main tank and a sponge from the sump of the main tank to try to help with the filtration.
The fish was eating regularly and seemed to be in good condition. He did have this odd behavior of bouncing off the bottom like a pin ball though. We noticed some white spots -well, what we think are white spots-on his fins. It's hard to tell on his body because he is white to begin with. We gave him another freshwater dip and began with copper treatment-what we read was recomended for most parasitic infections. He began swimming constantly and will not 'perch' like normal. He was still eating as of last night-quite well actually. This morning he is not looking good. Sitting up at the top of the tank and not swimming aroung at all. We don't think he is going to make it. Very bummed because he was a very personable guy.
Now, should he die, what do we do with the tank to make it ready for the next attempt? Need to know what we should do about the copper, any residual parasites/infectious stuff, and filtration.
Thanks for the help
Katie
We bought our first fish-a red-lipped blennie. Put him in a quaratine tank that had been cycled for months-but we cleaned out the substrate before we added him and only put back some PVC pipe (as suggested). (this may have been a mistake in that the tank did not have a chance to recycle before we added the fish). Anyway, we gave him a fresh water/methylene blue dip and then put him in the tank. We did daily water changes to try to keep the ammonia down were never able to keep up (It remained around 0.1 no matter what we tried). We even sacrificed some live rock from the main tank and a sponge from the sump of the main tank to try to help with the filtration.
The fish was eating regularly and seemed to be in good condition. He did have this odd behavior of bouncing off the bottom like a pin ball though. We noticed some white spots -well, what we think are white spots-on his fins. It's hard to tell on his body because he is white to begin with. We gave him another freshwater dip and began with copper treatment-what we read was recomended for most parasitic infections. He began swimming constantly and will not 'perch' like normal. He was still eating as of last night-quite well actually. This morning he is not looking good. Sitting up at the top of the tank and not swimming aroung at all. We don't think he is going to make it. Very bummed because he was a very personable guy.
Now, should he die, what do we do with the tank to make it ready for the next attempt? Need to know what we should do about the copper, any residual parasites/infectious stuff, and filtration.
Thanks for the help
Katie