I first wanna apologize ahead of time for this long post.
So last week I bought a fw dolphin (mormyrus longirostris I believe). It was the healthiest looking and was eating at the shop and when I brought it home, I noticed that it had a mild outbreak of ich so I put it in qt with the temp at 84 and added salt. This morning I found it dead It only ate the first day I brought it home and never ate again and it progressively got worse. Here's exactly what happened:
I added an airstone bc it started breathing extremely rapidly that night. The next day it was breathing fine and was active but didn't eat. The next day it became really lazy and never moved but once the lights turned off, it was all over the place but never ate. The next few days it became extremely lethargic 24/7 and still didn't eat. Thursday night, I noticed that its slime coat was coming off so I added some stress coat to help replace it. Yesterday it was worse where the slime coat was even coming off of the fins and today it was dead.
I plan on going to the lfs tomorrow and hope that the other 1 is still there and I really don't want the same thing to happen to that 1. So like the title states, what are the best meds to use to prevent any of this from occurring while it is in qt. I did some research today to find out what happened and after a while of searching, I found out that they're actually extremely sensitive to salt (my bad) and are sensitive to a variety of different meds but no exact meds were stated. Any advice would be extremely appreciated. Thanks guys
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So last week I bought a fw dolphin (mormyrus longirostris I believe). It was the healthiest looking and was eating at the shop and when I brought it home, I noticed that it had a mild outbreak of ich so I put it in qt with the temp at 84 and added salt. This morning I found it dead It only ate the first day I brought it home and never ate again and it progressively got worse. Here's exactly what happened:
I added an airstone bc it started breathing extremely rapidly that night. The next day it was breathing fine and was active but didn't eat. The next day it became really lazy and never moved but once the lights turned off, it was all over the place but never ate. The next few days it became extremely lethargic 24/7 and still didn't eat. Thursday night, I noticed that its slime coat was coming off so I added some stress coat to help replace it. Yesterday it was worse where the slime coat was even coming off of the fins and today it was dead.
I plan on going to the lfs tomorrow and hope that the other 1 is still there and I really don't want the same thing to happen to that 1. So like the title states, what are the best meds to use to prevent any of this from occurring while it is in qt. I did some research today to find out what happened and after a while of searching, I found out that they're actually extremely sensitive to salt (my bad) and are sensitive to a variety of different meds but no exact meds were stated. Any advice would be extremely appreciated. Thanks guys
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