With the power outage and UPS failure we had a several hour O2 deprivation long enough that I lost two fish and all of the others were laying on the bottom until I got the bubbler going. Temp also got down to 69 or so. After that we were on generator for 7 days, but running everything pretty normally except for some powerheads, CA reactor, and the skimmer. Now that the power is back on, several fish are showing rotting fins and white tissue patches on scales and some cloudy eyes.
There was a new fish addition several days prior to the outage. We got a female mandarin that was very healthy looking and she has not shown any signs of disease since we got her and all fins on her are very intact. We did not QT her because of the problems QTing a mandarin and the mucus coating on their scale-less bodies. This coating makes them mostly resistant to parasitic skin diseases and untreatable with many meds, so I'm a little more lax about QTing them If I don't have a good natural refugium type QT going.
Since she has no fin damage I'm thinking she isn't the source and more likely is an oportunistic infection from the stresses of the last weeks. Clowns, rabbitfish, and chromis are effected so far and the largest fish of these are the hardest hit (coincidental that the O2 hit the largest the worst too?)
So any thoughts on things to do about the fin rot? I'm thinking the only thing I can do now is wait it out.
There was a new fish addition several days prior to the outage. We got a female mandarin that was very healthy looking and she has not shown any signs of disease since we got her and all fins on her are very intact. We did not QT her because of the problems QTing a mandarin and the mucus coating on their scale-less bodies. This coating makes them mostly resistant to parasitic skin diseases and untreatable with many meds, so I'm a little more lax about QTing them If I don't have a good natural refugium type QT going.
Since she has no fin damage I'm thinking she isn't the source and more likely is an oportunistic infection from the stresses of the last weeks. Clowns, rabbitfish, and chromis are effected so far and the largest fish of these are the hardest hit (coincidental that the O2 hit the largest the worst too?)
So any thoughts on things to do about the fin rot? I'm thinking the only thing I can do now is wait it out.
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