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Omg.. 2 months with no fish in tank?? A big test of patience manzz..

Nice tank bro.

Taking precautions against parasite warfare. Prevention is better than cure. In order not to introduce parasites in my DT again, I'm taking to QT of all newly bought fishes from now on. Just collected my independently-partitioned tank for my QT use, after which the biggest compartment will be used for a species tank. For the moment, the big compartment will be the hospital tank for the current 5 survivors. Bought a simple hob filter box. Still thinking about cooling the tank in the neatest manner possible..

The colours are amazing! Beautiful tank. I especially love the last pic after the acknowledgements. Congrats bro.

Sadly, my first tank inhabitant, the tailspot blenny, passed away peacefully this morning. Without a white spot on its body, I thought it can pull through. However, symptoms are there.. It wasn't feeding for more than a week. The one fishes feeding are the pair of clowns and the blue chromis. The blue tang and the firefish are also not feeding, and I'm fearing the worst for them.. sigh...

Hi bro, the only way for the velvet pathogens to go away completely is when all the fish in the DT is killed, and the tank has to left fishless for at least 4weeks. Otherwise, tear the rockscape apart and catch all the surviving fishes out for copper treatment. Hyposalinity does not work for velvet. Keep the fishes separately for a month. Do water change regularly for the DT. you can also try dosing "It's Clear" in the DT time bind the free swimming pathogens for easier removal in your mechanical filtration. I'm recently battling velvet too. Once the white patches show up on your fish bodies, it usually is too late to save them. I've lost most of my fish already. Left 4 standing.

Hi bro Linko, The writeup can be found on post #23 on my previous tank thread. Have fun building it..

Will definitely be. Hopefully wiser too.. Thanks.

Yup. I've never been so diligent in performing water change before. Thanks.

Thanks all fish are caught and quarantined now. Left only 5 fish now.

I should have noticed the change in behaviour earlier before the velvety spots appeared. After the death of the powder blue and Atlantic blue tangs, the anthias seem to lose their appetite bit by bit. Most of them also took turns to go to the shrimps for cleaning. In loving memory of the social butterflies of my tank..

Had a battle with marine velvet a few days ago. I'm sad to announce my defeat. Lost most of the fish to this deadly disease. Casualty list: 6 blue eye lyretail anthias. Watanabei angel Powder blue tang Juvenile Atlantic blue tang Mandarin fish Survivors are actually the first 5 inhabitants that I acquired. They really are survivors. Blue tang. Tailspot blenny. Firefish. Pair of clownfish. All the survivors are now in a separate tank undergoing treatment and isolation. The display tank is now fishless. Will be fallow for 30 days to starve the pathogens to death and break the lifecycle. Looks like gonna leave it fishless for longer. As quarantine of new fishes will only start in a week or 2. My lifeless tank tonight. Front view. Right side.

The auntie's shop next to ah beng? They do open on weekdays. However they open quite late, and inconsistent. Sometimes as early as 2pm, sometimes 3-4pm..

A drawing of my new partition QT.

Haha.. Couldn't have said it better.

Haha got that planned out already. The tank will have 3 compartments. Height is standard at 12". Compartments 1 & 2 are 6" x 12" each. Compartment 3 is a 1' cube. Once the first rounds of QT done, the 3rd compartment will be cycled properly and converted to a species tank, supported with a simple HOB skimmer. Not decided yet, but likely a predator tank -lionfish or frogfish. The compartments 1 & 2 will be left empty for QT as and when I buy new fish..

Just walked out of Atlantic Glass. Custom built a above mentioned multi-segment-tank for quarantine of new fishes. Hands itchy already. Already planning my new fish list now to get myself out of this depressive mood.. Bwahaha. .

A little update. Casualty list got longer. 5 anthias Juvenile Atlantic blue tang Watanabei angel Mandarin fish And of course, the powder blue tang. Damn you, velvet!! Still alive- Clownfish pair Firefish Tailspot blenny Blue tang Alpha male blue eye anthias Really heartache to see deaths. So I tore apart the rockscape. Caught all the remaining fish. Administer cure ich in a separate tank. Main tank is now fishless. Will remain so for 4 weeks at least. Setting up a quarantine tank. All new fish has to go through QT for 4 weeks before intro from now on. I can also start looking out for fish as soon as the QT is up and running. Will be building a multi-independent-compartment QT to cut down waiting time. Thanks for all the advice and concern. I will come back stronger and wiser.

Thanks for your offer. I'll monitor first. Will contact you if needed.

The fire shrimp has been busy throughout the day seeing patients requiring surface cleaning. Seen here picking on one of the anthias and the blue tang. No queue number. Just treating both side by side. Lol..

Upzz

Casualties. Lost a fat Watanabei angel, and one of the smaller blue eye lyretail anthias. Changed 10% water to reduce sg to 1.022. Another 10% tmr, while minting sg at 1.021. Dosed "It's Clear" to bind any free swimming parasites. Will be dosing "Cure Ich" in 12 hours. *Thanks bro kkk121 for these above 2 items in such a short notice. Owe you one. Running a 9W UV to kill the persistent ones. Of course the good nitrifying bacteria will be killed along the way too. Sigh, that's what chemotherapy does to human body cells too. Hope casualty list will stop growing. Update you guys along the way.

Casualties. Lost a fat Watanabei angel, and one of the smaller blue eye lyretail anthias. Changed 10% water to reduce sg to 1.022. Another 10% tmr, while minting sg at 1.021. Dosed "It's Clear" to bind any free swimming parasites. Will be dosing "Cure Ich" in 12 hours. *Thanks bro kkk121 for these above 2 items in such a short notice. Owe you one. Running a 9W UV to kill the persistent ones. Of course the good nitrifying bacteria will be killed along the way too. Sigh, that's what chemotherapy does to human body cells too. Hope casualty list will stop growing. Update you guys along the way.

Thanks bro. See you later.

Was reading up disease treatment in RC just.. Am wondering if this is marine velvet? Thanks for all the advice above. Will be looking to reduce sg tmr via DI water change.. Will also see if I can get a uv set to run the water through.. Thanks..