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    Exactly lol. It's pretty clear to me that they just didn't want to deal with it. I was able to reship them in the exact same packaging the next day from a different USPS office.
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    Sighhh, the boxes ended up back on my porch today. With a nonsensical note: "Live fish, need to properly package". So annoying. I won't get into politics but it is such a shame that I feel penalized for being honest. Anyway...pics of the colonies I sold from for tax 🙂
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    Been ordering from him since like last year. Found out through steenfott. The customer service is excellent. The fish are absolutely pampered ahead of shipping.
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    Has anyone had this happen before? I was trying to ship two separate boxes of fish, some G. metallicus and platies. The postal worker didn't want to take the box. I showed him on the USPS website that they do indeed allow shipment of live, harmless fish (this page: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm). He ended up sending me to a different counter for that employee to deal with me. By this time I was really late to work so I'm ashamed to say it but I lied to the second guy and said there was nothing perishable in the box. Now I feel guilty but also confused and irritated bc why wouldn't they just take the fish?? Any tips or feedback?
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    Thank you everybody for your replies!!!! I was going to respond individually but everyone was so generous in their advice that it's too much 🤣 I really like the idea of doing a thorough cleaning of the tanks and equipment...good idea to take good care of what I already have before I go get new stuff. Also I think someone mentioned keeping NANF and other coolwater species to cut down on electricity costs? This is definitely a move I'm interested in making. Tbh a lot of NANF are not that attractive to me--looking at you, sunfish and chubs--but for example mountain redbelly dace are basically everything I could ask for in a cyprinid!!
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    Money is really tight for me right now. At the same time, I still want to play with my tanks. Normally for me that's been buying new fish, plants, or decor. Well, that's not really an option right now, but I know if I don't find something equally entertaining, I'll probably spend money I don't have on some awesome fish. Anybody else ever find themselves in this position? What did you do to keep yourself busy until cashflow eased up, or maybe just as a new way to enjoy your tanks without throwing more money at them? Some things I've been thinking of: Breeding a new type of spawner (e.g. egg scatterers instead of livebearers, I have some really nice rainbow emperor tetras I could try this with) Cleaning up some of my more neglected 'aquascapes' (at this point really just scraggles of plants here and there) Maybe even paring down my collection a bit so that I can focus on the fish I enjoy the most right now Curious to hear other ideas!
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    @Chick-In-Of-TheSea@Colu Unfortunately the lil fellers didn't make it. 😞 I put the three who still had open sores in a cylcled 10gal qt. Gave them a week to soak in salt @ 1tbsp/gal, nothing. Water change. A week to soak in Maracyn. Nothing; in fact one of them developed cloudy eye. Water change. Decided to just focus on keeping them in clean water and high quality food. After a couple weeks the cloudy eye one was in a terrible way, pineconing and just spinning out. The others weren't looking good at all either. I decided to put them down bc they were clearly suffering. The other two or three who had less advanced symptoms have made a full recovery and are still in the main display tank. So...idk. Kind of a weird experience.
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    Super hard to get a good photo without putting them in specimen containers again, but I've attached pics of the two barbs whose wounds are better but still look bad. One has it at the base of his tail and the other has his snout eaten away. @Colu, should I keep medicating? I've been doing the food mix 2x a day and Metroplex every other day since like April 25. Maybe I should try Maracyn now? Also I just realized I hijacked a thread about columnaris to troubleshoot a different issue...my bad. I can start a new thread if preferred
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    Just want to report I've been using @Colu your treatment regimen and it's helping. I think it's going to take a while to treat, maybe another week or two, but my sweet barbs do seem to be healing up. I'll post pics soon so ppl who are curious can see what a healing bacterial infection looks like. Super grateful
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    Thank you @Colu! Can I use repashy for the food mix? Or maybe the boiling water would be a problem for the meds? @Chick-In-Of-TheSea they are on a mix of play sand, aqua soil, and smooth gravel. But the tank is kind of a thunderdome of barbs and danios and rainbows, so stress and bickering may have set this off. Definitely going to move some fish out once they're all healthy.
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    IM BACK!!! I swear to God it's been back to back whack a mole with diseases in my tanks for over a year now. I'm coming back to this thread because the columnaris is FINALLY GONE!!!!!! in my other tanks, but my 75gal has something going on. Admittedly it's overstocked so that doesn't help. The symptoms are like...a gross gnarly rotting on the snout and tails of my panda melon barbs and Persian killifish. Looks like when you skin your knee real bad, kind of meaty and red but not very deep. I also had the same thing happen to my Apisto hongsloi pair in a different tank (since torn down). Those two died and looked really miserable by the end -- not to be upsetting, but their faces basically rotted off. I've tried culling the affected fish, I've tried keeping the water really clean, and I just finished a three-dose round of Kanaplex with absolutely no change. I've attached pics. @Colu, @Chick-In-Of-TheSea, what demon disease am I dealing with now?!
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    Unbelievably rich colors.
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    I cannot answer your anchoring questions because I also need that information, but I can tell you that my 24x18x72 Gladiator rack does NOT by itself support an 18"-deep tank. The advertised depth includes the like, frame around the shelves, and the shelves are like a quarter inch recessed into the frame. Hard to describe. But basically there is a lip on either side that reduces the real shelf depth to like 17". I had some egg crate light diffuser which as it turns out is just about 1/4" tall, so I cut it to fit on the shelf and provide support to the 40 breeder I wanted to set up. It's been going for about a year now and it looks fine, but definitely not ideal.
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    You are a madman and a genius. @Colu
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    So sanitization has definitely been part of the problem. Guaranteed that going tank to tank without sanitizing is how I spread disease all over the place. For my nets and smaller siphons, I recall a video where @Cory said he blasts his items with hot tap water and then allows them to completely dry. Something like "Between the heat, the chlorine, and drying out, very little is likely to survive." That said, I do have a huge Python siphon that I can't really sanitize. It's like 100ft of hose. I don't know what to do about that other than avoid using it except for filling and never draining. @Chick-In-Of-TheSea your story about the snail is so funny. I do the same thing. My girlfriend has Shredder in a 20 long I gave her. That's a fire red crayfish I convinced the shop to give me for free bc he had just molted and was getting brutalized by the barbs in the shop tank! Now he's huge and loving life.
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    My struggle continues. Lol. For the record, all of this started from getting lazy with water changes on an overstocked guppy tank. Ok...two tanks (out of sixteen) continue to show problems. One has danios & the black lancer catfish. The other has the Barilius sp. hill trouts, a swordtail pair, butterfly cichlids, and trout goodeids. Everyone but the cichlids has white patches/scale damage -- even the first baby goodeid to arrive. Sooooo annoying. I am doing a round of @Colu's regimen and am probably gonna do a second one immediately after. In regard to all the invertebrate talk, I had no losses when using the meds in my tanks. Even the insanely high salt dosage I did last time -- it nuked almost all my plants, but my amanos, red cherries, and green Babaultis were fine, amazingly. One problem I'm having is I'm just paranoid all the time now. I can't enjoy looking at my tanks or even window-shopping at the LFS. I find myself inspecting all the fish and straining my eyes to look for abnormalities.
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    Back to report. This has required so much patience. I ended up losing every one of my Pseudomugil tenellus, which really sucks. But they just weren't getting better. I have a young black lancer catfish that has or is recovering from hole in the head. She has these weird pock marks along the left side of her head and cheek, almost looks like acne scarring. I'm assuming she got hit with the columnaris too so I am just keeping an eye on the marks to see if they get better or worse. I did have a blue hill trout (Barilius sp.) that had literally two scales showing issues coming back up. I moved him into the heavily salted qt tank with the Pseudomugils and he's all better, but I'm keeping him locked up for a while since there's clearly still active columnaris in the qt tank. All in all, things have improved a lot, but there's still a ways to go yet.
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    He does look better. I admire the amount of dedication and care you're providing this one little tetra. Lol. I think he'll pull through. My pseudomugils are doing a lot better. The fin tearing had to be aggression-caused because as soon as I moved them into quarantine they have almost all healed up. Unfortunately, the two that showed external injuries from columnaris did not make it and died shortly after the transition. I have 9 or 10 left out of an original school of 14. Could be worse. But it does seem to confirm my suspicion that once a fish has anything worse than scale damage, there's no turning back, even if the wounds start to improve. 😕
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    This disease is a monster. Everybody seems to be on the mend except the pseudomugils, so I moved them to a qt tank. They have a lot of fin damage but I think most of it is probably aggression from being in an overcrowded tank (remember I had consolidated a couple populations to reduce total number of gallons needing to be medicated). The couple who had clear external damage from the columnaris are still healing little by little. I am just keeping them in clean water for now with daily water changes. No salt. We'll see how they do.
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    You guys are really helping me through something that's been so stressful and scary for me, I love my fish like my babies ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 @Colu @Chick-In-Of-TheSea
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    Sounds like things are at least stabilizing for you. Happy to hear that. For me, there's progress too. In the 20gal acrylic, the open sore on the pseudomugil's side has reduced in circumference(?) but the center is still white and like, fuzzy? Looks like healing flesh to me, but I wouldn't call him out of the woods by any means yet. My male goodeids, in the same tank, with little saddleback patches are stable (no pun intended), not really worse or better visibly. Same with the glowlight danios in a separate 20 long. Of the 6 tanks I initially treated (about 180gal in total), I moved forward with a second full round of @Colu's regimen on just the two mentioned above. The others were largely asymptomatic and received one round of meds because visibly sick fish had been in there before but either died or were moved elsewhere. Since they looked good on Day 5, I threw in some salt and am continuing to monitor. They look fine for now. For the tanks receiving a second round, I alao added salt @ 5tbsp/gallon. That kinda nuked my swords, aponogeton, and vallisneria, but most crypts, stems, and mosses are fine. Amazingly, the inverts I haven't been able to get out of the medicated tanks are chillin. See pic below of a green babaulti shrimp doing shrimpy stuff in his 20gal. Oh, and one of my Amazon puffers in a totally different tank has a cloudy eye today, so...maybe I cross contaminated and need to dose that tank now too. Ugh. But also could be temperature, his tank is a little cold bc I can't afford a lid right now. So...where do things stand then? After I administer today's dose, which is the last one, I don't think the fish that still have wounds are going to magically look 100%. I guess I'll water change the meds out over the weekend and still run salt. Maybe I'll move the 3-5 fish who are visibly symptomatic into a qt tank by themselves for closer monitoring and then just run the main tanks with a little salt for a week or so. As always, input welcome. Pics attached, including kuhli loach tax.
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    Man, this columnaris stuff really does not give up easily, does it?
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    Omg I love this thread. Haha. I have much more to add but for now please enjoy my creamsicle dalmatian mollies and their lil bebbis.
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    I'm about to dose the day 5 meds so I thought I'd take some pics. See the white blob on the side of the pseudomugil -- before, that was a red raised wound. He and one other pseudomugil also now have whitish splotches all over their bodies, see other pics -- I'm assuming this is what it looks like when the meds are fighting the virus. The redtail splitfin goodeid has just the start of a saddleback patch on his back...that too is whiter since I started medicating. Last fish pictured is a swordtail. Idk if anything is wrong with him but he has a weird white dot at the base of his tail, so I am medicating him too. Since the fish still have visible symptoms, I am going to do another 5 days. @Colu, any advice or recommendations very much welcome...
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    Hi @Chick-In-Of-TheSea, thank you for your reply. You said you've had success with the treatment on multiple occasions...does that mean your fish are getting reinfected? Do you think these are new introductions of the disease or is it the same infection rebounding continually? In regards to the inverts, I think I will actually consolidate some of the fish into fewer tanks and leave the inverts where they are and w/c the meds out. So you do think they're at risk? pic of Shredder attached... 🙂
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