honeybadgered
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I am fairly certain I lost most of my tank to Mycobacterium bacteria, also known as fish tuberculosis or wasting disease. I had my 75g reef tank up and running for about 8 months before this issue.
My temperature stays fairly stable at 78.8, I use RO water, have a cascade 1000 canister filter, and was doing a 10% water change a week before the issue occurred.
I had 3 chromis, 2 clownfish, a cleaner wrasse, flame angelfish, purple dottyback, diamond watchman goby, snails, hermit crabs, emerald crabs, fighting conch, cleaner shrimp, 2 sexy shrimp, corals, and a bubble tip anemone.
One day I noticed some ich on my clownfish. I decided to try raising the temperature, and began to do more aggressive water changes, even though all my readings were well within acceptable.
The ich went away, and everything looked good for about a week. One day I found one of my fish dead. He had no signs of ich, or anything else, really. I chalked it up to natural causes. Next day, another fish dead. Within a week they had all died, except for Rasputin, one of the chromis. He has been swimming around for a month, just looking very gaunt. My corals, anemone, and inverts are all doing well.
I am setting up a hospital tank, and I plan to take some rock that my coral is stuck on, and all the living creatures and move them in. I plan to empty the tank, dry out the rock, and throw out the sand.
Once I have the tank cleared, cleaned, filled, and cycled is it safe to add the rock and creatures from the hospital tank into the 75g tank again? I wouldn't add the fish, though I am not sure how much longer he will last. I've read fish with this disease can live with it for almost a year before succumbing.
Is this the best way to handle everything? Does anyone have an experience or advice? All help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
My temperature stays fairly stable at 78.8, I use RO water, have a cascade 1000 canister filter, and was doing a 10% water change a week before the issue occurred.
I had 3 chromis, 2 clownfish, a cleaner wrasse, flame angelfish, purple dottyback, diamond watchman goby, snails, hermit crabs, emerald crabs, fighting conch, cleaner shrimp, 2 sexy shrimp, corals, and a bubble tip anemone.
One day I noticed some ich on my clownfish. I decided to try raising the temperature, and began to do more aggressive water changes, even though all my readings were well within acceptable.
The ich went away, and everything looked good for about a week. One day I found one of my fish dead. He had no signs of ich, or anything else, really. I chalked it up to natural causes. Next day, another fish dead. Within a week they had all died, except for Rasputin, one of the chromis. He has been swimming around for a month, just looking very gaunt. My corals, anemone, and inverts are all doing well.
I am setting up a hospital tank, and I plan to take some rock that my coral is stuck on, and all the living creatures and move them in. I plan to empty the tank, dry out the rock, and throw out the sand.
Once I have the tank cleared, cleaned, filled, and cycled is it safe to add the rock and creatures from the hospital tank into the 75g tank again? I wouldn't add the fish, though I am not sure how much longer he will last. I've read fish with this disease can live with it for almost a year before succumbing.
Is this the best way to handle everything? Does anyone have an experience or advice? All help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
