Zeus
11-30-2006, 06:31 PM
Hi folks,
Here are my instruction and notes for treating Brookynella.
Brookynella can be identified by rapid breathing, excess mucus secretion, holes/pits on the head and/or lateral line and colour fading. Brookynella, or ClownFish disease, is a very fast killer usually killing the host in 36 to 48 hours.
Treatment of Brookynella requires the use of a Formaldehyde based product. Be extra, extra careful using Formaldehyde and read the instructions on the bottle/packaging thoroughly. The levels of formaldehyde you need CANNOT be used in the main tank.
You are also going to need a few bits and pieces, here a list
Requirements
Water, mix water to 25ppt about 1.020SG. This eases the fish’s osmoregulation and reduces stress but you will need to change 50% every 12 to 16 hours for the first 3 days in quarantine because the fish will pee a lot during this time as a result of the lower salinity. You could optionally use API AmmoLock but I opted for the water changes which were just fine.
Tank for quarantine, this is a simple affair and you only need a suitable tank of about 20 to 40 litres with a lid, heater, air pump and air stone. You don't need filtration at this point and you don't need lights at all.
Two small bath tanks of at least 10 litres each with lid, I found these at an LFS for £8 each, the highest airflow air pump you can afford (formaldehyde removes oxygen from the water so the higher the airflow the better) small 50 watt heater and air stones.
Interpet Anti-Parasite, this is actually a pond product but works just fine. PLEASE READ the safety instructions on the side of the bottle carefully, formaldehyde can be nasty stuff. I have verified, with Interpet, the formaldehyde concentration in this product and the instructions below will give you the required dosage of 200ppm.
Anti-bacterial remedy such as Myxazin.
A small syringe, from one of your test kits maybe, that you will never use again.
Don't forget plenty of air line.
Method
Put a heater in one of the small tanks and add 4.5 litres (1gallon), no more, no less, of your 25ppt water in and bring it to the same temp as the QT. Add 2ml of the Interpet Anti-Parasite, measure this EXACTLY from the syringe. Next get the aeration going full speed, the more aeration the better. Leave this for a minute or two to spread fully through the water.
Net the fish and place it gently in to the formaldehyde bath, cover the bath and set your mobile phone, or other, alarm for one hour. Watch the fish carefully for signs of distress. If showing distress, immediately prepare the rinse bath, see below, and remove the fish
When the time is almost up get the 2nd small tank and add some of your 25ppt mixed water, enough so the fish fits in comfortably, this is your rinse bath. When the mobile alarm goes off immediately net the fish in to put it in the rinse for 5 minutes, don't worry about aeration or heat, the fish won't be in there long enough. After 5 minutes net him and put him back into the QT. Discard the entire contents of the formaldehyde bath and rinse the tank, heater, air line and air stone in fresh tap water.
Repeat this bath procedure no earlier than, and as close to 24 hours after the previous bath. To make sure that Brookynella is gone you need to give the fish 1 x 1 hour bath per day to a total 5 baths.
Also, I added Myxazin, a broad sprectrum anti bacterial remedy, to the QT to avoid any secondary infection as a result of the broken skin the Brook parasite causes as it leaves the fish.
Keep the fish in QT for a week after the last formaldehyde bath, until the Myxazin, or whatever anti-bacterial remedy you choose has run it's full course as directed by the manufacturer. And keep up the 50% daily water changes.
After this week was up I transferred the fish to a Recovery Tank, a Aqua-One AR126 in this case, which had full filtration.
I know this is a lot but this is how I did it. Just make sure you have plenty of water mixed, at 25ppt, and ready to go.
If you have any comments or questions, please get back to me.
Campbell
Here are my instruction and notes for treating Brookynella.
Brookynella can be identified by rapid breathing, excess mucus secretion, holes/pits on the head and/or lateral line and colour fading. Brookynella, or ClownFish disease, is a very fast killer usually killing the host in 36 to 48 hours.
Treatment of Brookynella requires the use of a Formaldehyde based product. Be extra, extra careful using Formaldehyde and read the instructions on the bottle/packaging thoroughly. The levels of formaldehyde you need CANNOT be used in the main tank.
You are also going to need a few bits and pieces, here a list
Requirements
Water, mix water to 25ppt about 1.020SG. This eases the fish’s osmoregulation and reduces stress but you will need to change 50% every 12 to 16 hours for the first 3 days in quarantine because the fish will pee a lot during this time as a result of the lower salinity. You could optionally use API AmmoLock but I opted for the water changes which were just fine.
Tank for quarantine, this is a simple affair and you only need a suitable tank of about 20 to 40 litres with a lid, heater, air pump and air stone. You don't need filtration at this point and you don't need lights at all.
Two small bath tanks of at least 10 litres each with lid, I found these at an LFS for £8 each, the highest airflow air pump you can afford (formaldehyde removes oxygen from the water so the higher the airflow the better) small 50 watt heater and air stones.
Interpet Anti-Parasite, this is actually a pond product but works just fine. PLEASE READ the safety instructions on the side of the bottle carefully, formaldehyde can be nasty stuff. I have verified, with Interpet, the formaldehyde concentration in this product and the instructions below will give you the required dosage of 200ppm.
Anti-bacterial remedy such as Myxazin.
A small syringe, from one of your test kits maybe, that you will never use again.
Don't forget plenty of air line.
Method
Put a heater in one of the small tanks and add 4.5 litres (1gallon), no more, no less, of your 25ppt water in and bring it to the same temp as the QT. Add 2ml of the Interpet Anti-Parasite, measure this EXACTLY from the syringe. Next get the aeration going full speed, the more aeration the better. Leave this for a minute or two to spread fully through the water.
Net the fish and place it gently in to the formaldehyde bath, cover the bath and set your mobile phone, or other, alarm for one hour. Watch the fish carefully for signs of distress. If showing distress, immediately prepare the rinse bath, see below, and remove the fish
When the time is almost up get the 2nd small tank and add some of your 25ppt mixed water, enough so the fish fits in comfortably, this is your rinse bath. When the mobile alarm goes off immediately net the fish in to put it in the rinse for 5 minutes, don't worry about aeration or heat, the fish won't be in there long enough. After 5 minutes net him and put him back into the QT. Discard the entire contents of the formaldehyde bath and rinse the tank, heater, air line and air stone in fresh tap water.
Repeat this bath procedure no earlier than, and as close to 24 hours after the previous bath. To make sure that Brookynella is gone you need to give the fish 1 x 1 hour bath per day to a total 5 baths.
Also, I added Myxazin, a broad sprectrum anti bacterial remedy, to the QT to avoid any secondary infection as a result of the broken skin the Brook parasite causes as it leaves the fish.
Keep the fish in QT for a week after the last formaldehyde bath, until the Myxazin, or whatever anti-bacterial remedy you choose has run it's full course as directed by the manufacturer. And keep up the 50% daily water changes.
After this week was up I transferred the fish to a Recovery Tank, a Aqua-One AR126 in this case, which had full filtration.
I know this is a lot but this is how I did it. Just make sure you have plenty of water mixed, at 25ppt, and ready to go.
If you have any comments or questions, please get back to me.
Campbell