fOXFACE UPDATE

[Peter Pan[_2_]]

After a month in the QT I came home to find the Fox face floating

[Wayne Sallee]

It's not likely that it was the pop eye that killed
him, since that was so far recovered.

Wayne Sallee



Peter Pan wrote on 1/2/2008 8:56 PM:
> After a month in the QT I came home to find the Fox face floating

[Peter Pan[_2_]]

Wayne Sallee wrote:
> It's not likely that it was the pop eye that killed him, since that was
> so far recovered.

I'm thinking it was probably the water quality. I replaced the filters
to my RODI last night and began to clean up the tanks. One bad thing
about RODI, it takes forever to get the water for a partial change.

[Wayne Sallee]

You don't use a plastic barrel for storage?

Wayne Sallee



Peter Pan wrote on 1/3/2008 9:07 AM:
> Wayne Sallee wrote:
>> It's not likely that it was the pop eye that killed him, since that
>> was so far recovered.
>
> I'm thinking it was probably the water quality. I replaced the filters
> to my RODI last night and began to clean up the tanks. One bad thing
> about RODI, it takes forever to get the water for a partial change.

[KurtG[_3_]]

Peter Pan wrote:
> Wayne Sallee wrote:
>> It's not likely that it was the pop eye that killed him, since that
>> was so far recovered.
>
> I'm thinking it was probably the water quality. I replaced the filters
> to my RODI last night and began to clean up the tanks. One bad thing
> about RODI, it takes forever to get the water for a partial change.

I didn't want to mention it as I was wishing you success, but I found
the same thing with a grey angel I treated for pop-eye. I'm not sure
what actually killed him, but I suspect that it was either:

* pop-eye went necrotic, so the antibiotics helped but it was hopeless.
* the absence of a a bio filter was deadly
* a bloom after the antibiotics were removed proved deadly.

I also changed 20% of the water daily and used anti-ammonia chems in QT
(before adding the daily dose of anti-biotic). I thought it was
abundantly cautious, but to no avail.

Sorry.

--Kurt

[KurtG[_3_]]

Wayne Sallee wrote:
> You don't use a plastic barrel for storage?

I have a 50 gallon drum. It doubles as emergency hurricane stock.

--Kurt

[George Patterson]

Peter Pan wrote:

> I'm thinking it was probably the water quality.

It's also possible that the pop-eye was a secondary symptom of another condition
which killed the fish.

George Patterson
Worry doesn't improve the future; it just ruins the present.