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GeejEx · 05-06-2008, 10:33 AM

I lost my Flame Angel this morning. Yesterday at the morning feeding (10AM) he was fine with good color and eating, then last night as I was cleaning the intakes on the powerheads (around 10PM) I noticed that he had what I thought were bubbles or sand stuck to him. As I was stirring a lot of junk up I decided to wait a few hours and watch- I didn't see him again until 3AM (insomniac) when I found him sand surfing but still breathing, covered in white spots. I scooped him out and dropped him into a hypo bath @82F 1.010sg. Color faded out in patches, gills bright red. Needless to say it was too late; the two other fish are MIA.

Given how fast it nailed him I'm thinking amyl and not ich-

The only recent changes have been dosing phyto every other day the last three weeks and the addition of 6 blue leg hermits two weeks ago, everything has been going great, good params, good growth from the inverts normal feeding, etc. with the exception of a cyano bloom that I keep trying to vacuum up and a little GHA on the green stars.

Question 1) Should I go invert-only for a month or nuke the tank?
2) Apart from not having formalin on hand, did I treat correctly?
3) Is there some way to mitigate this in the future?

TIA

05-06-2008, 10:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
GeejEx Feather Duster Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Bruno, CA Age: 33 Posts: 248 Karma: 582	Amyloodinium? Sad day I lost my Flame Angel this morning. Yesterday at the morning feeding (10AM) he was fine with good color and eating, then last night as I was cleaning the intakes on the powerheads (around 10PM) I noticed that he had what I thought were bubbles or sand stuck to him. As I was stirring a lot of junk up I decided to wait a few hours and watch- I didn't see him again until 3AM (insomniac) when I found him sand surfing but still breathing, covered in white spots. I scooped him out and dropped him into a hypo bath @82F 1.010sg. Color faded out in patches, gills bright red. Needless to say it was too late; the two other fish are MIA. Given how fast it nailed him I'm thinking amyl and not ich- The only recent changes have been dosing phyto every other day the last three weeks and the addition of 6 blue leg hermits two weeks ago, everything has been going great, good params, good growth from the inverts normal feeding, etc. with the exception of a cyano bloom that I keep trying to vacuum up and a little GHA on the green stars. Question 1) Should I go invert-only for a month or nuke the tank? 2) Apart from not having formalin on hand, did I treat correctly? 3) Is there some way to mitigate this in the future? TIA _________