fOXFACE UPDATE

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.