Timing

Speaking of not enough hours in the last post, well my package from the USA arrived this morning. I read the instructions on the medication, keen to get started...one half a measure required for the size tank my girls are currently housed in (20L), every second day.

That means a water change, add new medicine into fresh water, add to tank > two days later, same again > rinse and repeat until symptoms are gone (no more white stringy poops).

My SeaChem Stability arrived as well: 5ml/40L on day one and then 2.5ml/40L every day for seven days after the initial dose. Cool.

My wife and I are heading away for three days, the day after tomorrow...

If I start the medication now, then I have to get up at 3:30am Wednesday morning to do the second dose before heading off, and then a third dose can be done when we get back on Friday. I'm hoping they wont need more than three doses.

But the Stability regime cannot be started till I get back!

The girls are still eating well and are still alternating between relatively normal poops and stringy white ones, so they are still infected, but are still doing okay, without much in the way of signs of stress. Kate is occasionally clamped and sits around a little more than she should, and Pippa very occasionally sits around but she's acting pretty normal now.

I don't want to start a treatment of meds and then possibly stop, or alter the times they receive their meds so I'm not going to commence now. I've waited for a little over a week for them to arrive and now I'll have to wait another five days before getting them to my girls...not happy, but I'm not changing my travel plans again. The wife and I need some mummy daddy time ;)

Everyone's being fed twice a day, today and tomorrow, then they will get a single feed Wednesday and Thursday night by my daughter, and then a single feed on Friday night by me when I get back. Medication and Stability regimes will also commence Friday night.

Saturday, the fun begins once more as Diana and Ghost head into the spawn tank! Kate with William, and Pippa with Prime go into their spawn tanks once the girls internal parasite symptoms have disappeared. By next weekend, hopefully, I'll have three spawns to take care of!

Next week - BBS hatchery experimentation week...with photos and recipes!