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Well said Anthony ! 
Good to have you here.
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| Hey vaughan5 is that Menifee, CA
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[quote]vaughan5 (1/12/2006)
Well said Anthony !
Good to have you here.[/quote]
Here Here!!!
16yrs FW, 10yrs SW. It changes from time to time, but as of 9/26/07 - 125 FW Oscar/Pleco, 55 Community FOWLR/30 gal. sump, 40 QT, 20 Planted FW, Aquarium maintenance side business.
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Anthony Calfo (1/10/2006)
Cheers  The environment is friendly and relaxed... do feel at home. Assuming your home is friendly and relaxed  We aspire to keep the climate very polite and productive and appreciate your efforts to achieve this goal. With mutual respect for one another and the charges we take into our care, we will all enjoy great fellowship, education and success in the hobby and in life at large. Well put Anthony.  Its going to be nice to have all the experts here!
The beatings will continue until morale improves!75g mixed with 55g sump/fuge. 2-175 W 10k XM 2 Act. 110VHO Predator 1s skimmer.
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| Hi. This is our cowfish, Apollo, who has lived here for 2.5 years. He and his F.O. tankmates (3 tangs, 1 tomato clown, 1 triggerfish in a 240 gal tank with live rock) have been through a dreadful couple of months after I foolishly cut short the quarantine period on a new fish and added it to the main tank. We have had Ich, velvet, and severe secondary infections which were treated with antibiotics which knocked out the bacterial filter for a while. The Ich has continued at a lesser intensity, despite having a 1.008 hyposaline environment for over 4 weeks. All the fish are a lot better now, but Apollo's eyes continue to have white growths which have been there for several weeks, ever since the initial Ich infestation when the problem was so severe that he could not see to eat. It would seem that this problem is not Ich as the spots are of long duration. His eyes are cloudy immediately around the white spots, but clear otherwise. Can anyone tell me what this might be? (The central white spot is not a reflection.) 
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| I'm sorry. I seem to have put the above post in the wrong place.
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Finnan,
Thanks for posting the pic. It really helps with diagnosis and treatment.
It appears your long horned cow fish still has ich. This also means the tank that he currently is being housed has ich as well.
Please tell us more about your tank set up and post water parameters.
What are you using to measure your salinity ?
What treatments have you used and what time frame/length of treatment ? Did you treat in the display tank? Is there substrate and/or live rock?
Kelly
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| Thanks for finding my post, Kelly! The fish tank was here when we bought the house 3 yrs ago, so I am a relative newby. Yes, the fish have remained in the display tank throughout, purely for logistical reasons. The 6'W X 3'H tank is in a wall between two rooms, and the top of the tank is 6' off the floor with light bars and ceiling closely above. There is live rock in the tank, a trigger fish which would be difficult to catch, and the cowfish would need his own tank if moved out. (I learned this to my cost. My first fish shopping purchases consisted of the cowfish and 4 other fish which were found dead in the QT next morning. Apparently the cowfish had released his toxin. The big tank would seem to have enough water to dilute the toxin if he becomes frightened. He's a great personality fish, though!) There is a protein skimmer, a bioball tower, and I have added a UV sterilizer and a cleaner wrasse this week. Nov 23/05 Ich appeared in tank after introduction of a new fish (my second fish shopping trip...sigh) All fish had ich (the trigger had only a slight infestation) and the tomato clown had ?velvet. New fish (juvenile emperor angel) died. Dec 14-19 Secondary infections apparent. Apollo lying on tank bottom, green-brown in colour, fins eroded, "skin tags" hanging off, eyes coated with ich, not eating. Tangs have some red streaking. Maracyn commenced Dec 14, Maracyn 2 commenced Dec 15 (this was freshwater Maracyn, which was all that was available locally--the LFS were told that it could be used for S/W as well. I later discovered that this is incorrect and the Mardel tech told me Maracyn F/W had never been tested in S/W.) The infections cleared up (still some red on the tangs, however) and the fish started to improve. Large white spots still visible on Apollo's eyes. Carbon filtration added. Ammonia starting to show on testing. Dec 20 Hyposalinity 1.008 established. Tested with refractometer. Dec 20-31 Nitrogen cycle re-established with some fish stress but no losses, thank goodness. Present: all fish improving, tangs and cowfish have small amount of ich, but behaving normally and eating well. The large white spots are still on the cowfish's eyes from the initial ich infestation. I intend to start increasing the salinity again this week, as the hyposalinity has served the purpose of making the fish more comfortable while they were ill, but has not controlled the ich infestation. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Anne
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