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Are you treating ich, or throwing treatment at an unknown cause?

try getting a python and conducting regular tank maintenance.

be creeped out.

^^^^ please tell me you texted that from a phone (it's the only possible way to have any semblance of grammatical sense).

More than one of us from NC around. Welcome!

Well, the main reason lobsters are kept alive until the moment of cooking is a food safety issue. Once dead, nasty bacteria tend to build up exponentially faster than even with fish. It is possible to kill the lobster immediately before cooking, but most people don't, because it is rather...

between working on cars and being a volunteer firefighter, I've had some nice burns, and let me tell you, there is nothing about a burn that you don't feel.

IMO, there is no line. When it comes to food, any non-human living thing is game. If I was starving, you bet your hind end i'd fry up my cat and have some shish-cat-bob. My morals lie with killing living things NOT used for food or other reasonable purpose (danger to others, etc).

hold the phone here. how is some fist pumping reality show jerk tossing a live fish in a frying pan comparable to a fisherman catching, killing, and eating a fish? Furthermore.. How does anyone know what is more painful (freezing or burning)? Last I checked, people who burn or freeze to death...

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no. not okay.

Recommend leaving the salt in for one full week after the last seen ich on a fish. Leave temperature up for two full weeks after. (not a weekend and then the end of the week)

definitely check into your nutrient/co2 deficiencies before adding anything specific to the tank. What caused an imbalance in one tank may not be the cause for imbalance in another.

and given the excessive gas-off of the water shown by the bubbles, I would indeed suspect that there is too much co2 in the water. Add an airstone to the tank, that should help gas off any excess co2 that is hurting the fish.

looking forward to seeing some FAT angels. nice tanks.

Perhaps there was a contaminant introduced into the well water that wasn't there recently. Any pesticides or fire retardant been sprayed or dropped in the area recently?

right. If ammonia = 0, it will take the same amount of ammonia to reach the same ppm as before. A rule of thumb that I use is ~1tsp per 10g.

I dont know what you're talking about...... :D

^^^ bingo.

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per Tom Barr's many writeups on his EI dosing, Fe is not a required component of EI dosing, and one that I never needed to use. However, I've not heard of that particular conflict.. It could be that way.

I never alternated like that.. I just dosed everything every other day, skipping sunday and starting over on monday. you can read the thread in the lounge about my username. ;)

I agree with Lowryder on this one.. take a close look at your tank's condition and parameters, and fix the origin of the problem, instead of overdosing a single chemical and hoping it works.

PPS pro is intended to dose the water with only an amount the plants will use daily, not more. Yes, with Estimated Index dosing, you need water changes, but the intent of PPS pro is to not need any more water changes than normal to maintain water quality for fish. Also... Proper Estimative...

How often are you dosing ferts? None of my tanks get dosed any more than weekly, other than perhaps a trace element here or there depending on my personal preferences. EDIT: I did some looking up and saw that PPS Pro dosing is daily, so that explains that. As for the blackout, completely...