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Posted by BP on November 11, 2009, 12:10 pm
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So I took my girlfriends Fish Only salt tank of 7 years and upgraded.
Added a UV Steralizer, Skimmer, New light hood with T5-40's from
Marineland, changed the crushed coral to white Fiji sand, then added
75 lbs of live rock...let it settle for 2 weeks, then added about 8 or
9 different kinds of coral...awesome.
let it settle for 2-3 more weeks...bought a Blue "Dorry" fish...added
to the tank...which previously held like 3 fish...a Damsel and an
Orange Shoulder Tang, and 6 line wrasse...Bomb, Dorry has ick.
So I bough a cleaner wrasse...six line hated him, so I caught him, and
put him in a betta tank in my main tank for 2 days...let him out, and
he's exhibited no hostility toward the cleaner...he at one point was
catching the cleaner and dragging it across the tank to smash it into
the glass...bloody fins and all...relentless.
So I drop my salinity to 1.017, over 2 days, cause I don't want to
kill my coral, and a hospital tank won't hold all the fish coral etc.
Its been 1 week and half, and six line had ich for all of about 6 hrs,
no other fish has had ich, but Dorry...well she gets better then she
gets worse, and back and forth...I'm sick of this fish....short of
flushing is there anything else I should be doing?
I wash the walls down everyday with a fresh piece of filter media.
I've been doing small water changes.
I replaced my UV steralizer bulb.
I add slime coat stuff.
Please help...this topic is so varied in opinions...
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Posted by Pszemol on December 9, 2009, 8:42 pm
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> So I drop my salinity to 1.017, over 2 days, cause I don't want to
> kill my coral, and a hospital tank won't hold all the fish coral etc.
> Its been 1 week and half, and six line had ich for all of about 6 hrs,
> no other fish has had ich, but Dorry...well she gets better then she
> gets worse, and back and forth...I'm sick of this fish....short of
> flushing is there anything else I should be doing?
Tangs are strong fish - they can usually survive ich without treatment.
If you see only couple white spots fish will be fine with good feeding and
no additional stress. Are the spots all over the fish or just couple of
them?
For future you need to use hospital/quarantine tank BEFORE
you put new fish in the main tank. Quarantine tank is for the
new fish to observe it before placing it in the tank.
For me best for ich was the cleaner shrimp (like skunk shrimp).
Not sure if your fish you currently have will tolerate shrimp fine
or will they bother it too much... BTW - cleaner shrimps fare
best when there is a pair of them (two of the same species).
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Posted by A Paul Ing on December 10, 2009, 10:01 am
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>
>
> > So I drop my salinity to 1.017, over 2 days, cause I don't want to
> > kill my coral, and a hospital tank won't hold all the fish coral etc.
> > Its been 1 week and half, and six line had ich for all of about 6 hrs,
> > no other fish has had ich, but Dorry...well she gets better then she
> > gets worse, and back and forth...I'm sick of this fish....short of
> > flushing is there anything else I should be doing?
>
> Tangs are strong fish - they can usually survive ich without treatment.
> If you see only couple white spots fish will be fine with good feeding an=
d
> no additional stress. Are the spots all over the fish or just couple of
> them?
>
> For future you need to use hospital/quarantine tank BEFORE
> you put new fish in the main tank. Quarantine tank is for the
> new fish to observe it before placing it in the tank.
>
> For me best for ich was the cleaner shrimp (like skunk shrimp).
> Not sure if your fish you currently have will tolerate shrimp fine
> or will they bother it too much... BTW - cleaner shrimps fare
> best when there is a pair of them (two of the same species).
Nothing like being a day late and a dollar short huh Pissy Pants? Do
you like to reply to old month old posts? Do you really think this
dude has hung around all this time waiting for a freaking answer to
his post......duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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Posted by on December 19, 2009, 3:46 pm
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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:01:16 -0800 (PST), A Paul Ing <bobandcarolesne
>Nothing like being a day late and a dollar short huh Pissy Pants? Do
>you like to reply to old month old posts? Do you really think this
>dude has hung around all this time waiting for a freaking answer to
>his post......duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Pillocks like you have killed this group. You, and others like you,
are the best reason for birth control.
Fishnut.
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Posted by Pszemol on January 10, 2010, 1:02 pm
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On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:01:16 -0800 (PST), A Paul Ing <bobandcarolesne
>Nothing like being a day late and a dollar short huh Pissy Pants? Do
>you like to reply to old month old posts? Do you really think this
>dude has hung around all this time waiting for a freaking answer to
>his post......duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
No, I do not think he has hung around...
You have missed one thing... even if the original poster will not find
my answer, somebody else might be looking for the same problem
on the internet and can find now the original question AND the answer.
Unfortunatelly he/she can also find your words, which are completely
useless. Why do you even bother sending them here?
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> kill my coral, and a hospital tank won't hold all the fish coral etc.
> Its been 1 week and half, and six line had ich for all of about 6 hrs,
> no other fish has had ich, but Dorry...well she gets better then she
> gets worse, and back and forth...I'm sick of this fish....short of
> flushing is there anything else I should be doing?