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@Nordic thanks for the replies. The anchor worm was hooked right at his eye I am sure a secondary infection at the worm hook site caused the popeye and probably killed him. I am sure the stress of taking him out of the tank to remove the worm added stress and added to the issue. He was already in the process of succumbing when I got home from work and before I got a chance to start medicating. The meds I am using are cupramine and kanaplex. I will continue to treat as directed on the bottle and keep the qt fish that way for 30 days after all signs of the anchor worms are gone.
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Since I got back into the aquarium hobby I have bought a lot of fish, about 45 of them in total not counting the 11 cherry shrimp that now number 50+ ( thats probably a low number) the 10 I just bought and thats not including what came in my 75g when i bought it used. The 75g that was used came packed with a bunch of incompatible cichlids. The only fish I had lost up to this point was 3 from an over aggressive cichlid (thats why I first ended up with multiple tanks was so I could save the remaining cichlids) and one oto out of 9 that died 30 days after I got them (the oto spent 2 days in the mail getting here). I have never when I had fish before or this time lost fish due to disease. I have never had to treat ich or anything else. Years ago I had a pair of green terrors that I really babied and kept the local lfs stocked with baby green terrors. I take care of my aquariums. I am kicking myself in the ass right now for not having meds on hand and treating from the get go even before signs of disease. I have never needed meds before.
This go around I bought 10 fish from a fish store 80 miles away that has a good rep. While walking through the store I saw the warning signs told my wife I should just walk away but I let my impatience and stubbornness override my common sense and bought 10 fish anyway. The store I bought them from has always had an excellent rep. When I called yesterday and told them about the anchor worm the lady acted like it was no big deal and said she wasnt worried, that they treat all of their tanks. I had to laugh at that because if they were quarantining and treating I would not have lost fish.
I have 4 'show' tanks and one hospital tank. I do 30% weekly changes on my planted 75g. I do 30% water changes bi-weekly on a 44g with one 4 inch hongi, a 55g with two small calvus cichlids and a 6 inch pleco, and my 10g planted with cherry shrimp. All my tanks are well filtered and established. If I need to move fish to a new tank quickly for some reason I use tetra safestart to get the bio going. I try to take good care of my fish. The cichlids I have traded the lfs people always comment how good they looked even with the stress of being in a bucket and moved. For me to lose fish makes me feel like a failure the way I take care of them. I am not happy with this at all. I can say if there is one thing good came of this it is I will change how I do a few things. Luckily I found a store I didnt know was there, much closer, (the one that sold me the meds) that had pristine tanks with no dead fish in any tanks.