six2sevenproductions
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Well to make a long story long. I cant seem to keep new fish from getting ich. I have a 50 gallon reef with fish that include yellow tang, clownfish, two damsel (have never shown signs of aggression), cleaner shrimp, diamond goby, 4 large turbo snails, and assorted night time critters.
Now the tang had ich one time and fully recovered in qt. He has never gotten ich again. My dream fish is a PB tang. I have had two attempts at adding a power blue tang both with the same result. I know a pb tang requires a large tank but i have a deal with the lfs store that he will buy it back from me when it grows as long as its healthy. I just want to be able to have one even if its only a little while.
After purchasing, qt, and adding to display tank 6 weeks after ich was gone(hypo salinity treatment) it got ich after two weeks of being in the main tank. I removed it and repeated the quarantine process, same result after adding to display tank the second time. My tank was and still is 0 for ammonia, nitrates and nitrite, calcium is 420, ph 8.2, 8dkh, salinity is usually 1.023 adding ro/di every day and weekly 10% water changes.
I was reading that although i am continuing to quarantine the fish, the tank itself might be infected and i should remove all fish into qt. I plan on doing this next month when i upgrade to a 75g. I will remove and qt fish, swap all live rock and old water, then add all fish little by little when ready. Which brings me back to the subject, when i qt all the fish, this qt tank is to be set up in my office at work to keep a closer eye. I know a bare bottom is advised but i would like it to look nice so i want to know if it is a real problem using a substrate.i would like to add new fish in the future, once all my fish are out.
Now the tang had ich one time and fully recovered in qt. He has never gotten ich again. My dream fish is a PB tang. I have had two attempts at adding a power blue tang both with the same result. I know a pb tang requires a large tank but i have a deal with the lfs store that he will buy it back from me when it grows as long as its healthy. I just want to be able to have one even if its only a little while.
After purchasing, qt, and adding to display tank 6 weeks after ich was gone(hypo salinity treatment) it got ich after two weeks of being in the main tank. I removed it and repeated the quarantine process, same result after adding to display tank the second time. My tank was and still is 0 for ammonia, nitrates and nitrite, calcium is 420, ph 8.2, 8dkh, salinity is usually 1.023 adding ro/di every day and weekly 10% water changes.
I was reading that although i am continuing to quarantine the fish, the tank itself might be infected and i should remove all fish into qt. I plan on doing this next month when i upgrade to a 75g. I will remove and qt fish, swap all live rock and old water, then add all fish little by little when ready. Which brings me back to the subject, when i qt all the fish, this qt tank is to be set up in my office at work to keep a closer eye. I know a bare bottom is advised but i would like it to look nice so i want to know if it is a real problem using a substrate.i would like to add new fish in the future, once all my fish are out.