Uronema is the answer to the question... "why did my fish die". It is responsible for most mysterious fish deaths. I agree that it is in 75-90% of tanks. It is in all of the supply chain tanks and LFS tanks. There is no fallow period to treat uronema. My belief is that it didn't used to be as common as it is today. What that means is that some old school tanks that haven't added much recently might not have uronema. I'd bet a fair bit of money that any tank setup in the past 5 years is infected. It comes in on fish, coral and inverts. It's unavoidable. It kills some fish like chromis and anthias like the plauge, but any fish can be a carry. I have experimental evidence that tangs cab carry uronema between tanks. I believe that anything can be a carrier. It is sort of treatable, but success is never guaranteed and your quarantine period will be forever if you want to ensure there's no chance of it getting through. I quarantine everything but I've given up on uronema for now. It got through, so it doesn't really matter at this point. Hydrogen peroxide has some potential for treatment. Metro is speculated to work, but there are as many reports of failure as there are success. Formalin is the only thing that is know to actually work, but with its own drawbacks. I hate uronema. I'm sure it has cost me 10k if not more in time, resources and dead fish. The deeper into this hobby you get, the more uronema becomes an invisible barrier holding you back. The only real way to QT for uronema would be to kill all of the fish that you detect with uronema, which is going to be most of them. You will have to QT the fish for 3 months and then do a DNA test to be sure that they aren't carriers. Quarantineing a batch of fish for 3 months and then discovering uronema is heartbreaking and a tremendous waste of resources. Everything is lost and you have to start back by Sterilizing everything that batch of fish touched. Either accept that it's in your tank, or you are going to need the budget of a zoo and the patience of an alien race plotting to invade earth. Ive been told that the best amongst us have managed to keep it out of their tanks. I know the QT vendor that I buy from won't guarantee his fish are uronema free. I really hate this parasite.
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I was thinking, you need to have Dr Alex Hall back on.......then I remembered 😢
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Live this…I put 12 in my tank and noticed a few with spots on them 2 days later and they disappeared..nothing since ..but this is scary
Wow. Did not know that. I thought Green chromis were fairly safe parasites wise
That is a smart dude!!!
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Uronema is the answer to the question... "why did my fish die". It is responsible for most mysterious fish deaths. I agree that it is in 75-90% of tanks. It is in all of the supply chain tanks and LFS tanks. There is no fallow period to treat uronema.
My belief is that it didn't used to be as common as it is today. What that means is that some old school tanks that haven't added much recently might not have uronema. I'd bet a fair bit of money that any tank setup in the past 5 years is infected. It comes in on fish, coral and inverts. It's unavoidable.
It kills some fish like chromis and anthias like the plauge, but any fish can be a carry. I have experimental evidence that tangs cab carry uronema between tanks. I believe that anything can be a carrier.
It is sort of treatable, but success is never guaranteed and your quarantine period will be forever if you want to ensure there's no chance of it getting through. I quarantine everything but I've given up on uronema for now. It got through, so it doesn't really matter at this point.
Hydrogen peroxide has some potential for treatment. Metro is speculated to work, but there are as many reports of failure as there are success. Formalin is the only thing that is know to actually work, but with its own drawbacks.
I hate uronema. I'm sure it has cost me 10k if not more in time, resources and dead fish. The deeper into this hobby you get, the more uronema becomes an invisible barrier holding you back.
The only real way to QT for uronema would be to kill all of the fish that you detect with uronema, which is going to be most of them. You will have to QT the fish for 3 months and then do a DNA test to be sure that they aren't carriers. Quarantineing a batch of fish for 3 months and then discovering uronema is heartbreaking and a tremendous waste of resources. Everything is lost and you have to start back by Sterilizing everything that batch of fish touched.
Either accept that it's in your tank, or you are going to need the budget of a zoo and the patience of an alien race plotting to invade earth.
Ive been told that the best amongst us have managed to keep it out of their tanks. I know the QT vendor that I buy from won't guarantee his fish are uronema free.
I really hate this parasite.
I dont think I'll be buying any fish that's housed with Cromis.