I had a seahorse with it......you need to keep them well fed with minimize stress, garlic and fatty acids added to their food.
Good luck.............hope all turns out well. The one displaying the symptoms may not make it but try to keep the others as healthy as possible. The main marine biologist from ocean rider in Hawaii told me that all fish actually carry the disease it's just a matter of their health and disposition that allows it to come out.
Hmmm... interesting. I have never heard of Ocean Rider... What is it?
I emailed Bob Fenner and am waiting to hear back what he suggests doing since his first reply didn't address many of my main questions. I LOVE WWM!!!
Where do you get fatty acids?
I am trying to minimize stress as much as possible, but I'd say that having to be caught, FW dipped, and moved to a new tank every 3 days muct be pretty stressful! I'm gonna quit transferring them from tank to tank (ich treatment if I haven't mentioned before in this thread) since I haven't seen any signs of ich in about a week or so. Hopefully that is done! I was gonna move them to the DT today but then I saw this on the Hippo's mouth. I wish I could get a picture of it, but I don't have a macro lens and my camera isn't the greatest, the lighting in the QT isn't great either, and the hippo is very skiddish when I come to the tank and quickly hides! (no surprise since I am the one costantly catching the poor fish!) It almost looks like he has a fever blister in the corner of his mouth but it is white. It isn't all over his mouth, and I might think that it could be something else like maybe an injury or lymphocystis or something but I am thinking otherwise for 2 reasons... The banggai cardinal that was originally in QT with him looks to have some small white growth on his mouth, too... and my Koran Angel that died a couple months ago had the same symptom and after a week or so, the cotton looking stuff went away and I could see that his mouth had rotted away where it had been and it was red. He only lasted a day or 2 more at that point and got real bloated and couldn't swim right. I originally thought it was lymph on the Koran since he had had it since we first got him on his body and fins, but after I saw how it rotted, I don't believe the stuff on his mouth was lymph. These 6 new fish were in the same QT originally that the Koran had been in when I treated all my fish with copper for ich. I wasn't worried about exposing the new fish to anything in that tank b/c I was sure that the copper had killed the ich and other than the Koran having lymph, there was nothing else (that I knew of at least) affecting my fish... Now I'm wondering if this infection came from that 55 gallon QT they had been in at first.
Do you think it would be best to keep him/them in the 25 gallon QT or add them (or just the other 2 that appear to be healthy) to the DT to minimize stress from being in QT?
