so, I thought I would start a new thread on my 90 gallon tank.
As many of you may remember I have had many problems going on with this tank but now I think I am done.
To summarize... I started a fishless cycle on 21 Jan and finished it on 16 Feb (with the help of an angels pluss filter). I then added a bunch of fish from various locations. turns out my rainbows had columnaris and it spread to some of my other fish. treated with lowering the temp, salt and maracyn two. then my GBR got gill flukes so I started treating with prazipro. the prazipro worked, but my columnaris was not completely gone as I had originally thougt. So I started the tank on kanamycin. I do believe that worked but in the process it started harming my BB. The columnaris is now gone I am sure. Then I also found one case of anchor worms so then added cyropro. I am now done with all of that. WHEW!!!
that is more than enough for me!!
so now that I am done with the meds my BB are in a bit of a shock and I think my fish are ready to be in a chemical free environment! I have my QT tank set up and have some new inhabitants getting ready to go into my clean tank when the time is right. I am planning on keeping them in QT for 4 weeks (I have learned what happens when you have sick fish in your tank!). This should give my tank time to be ready for my new guys. as of now I finally have my ammonia back to 0 and I am still kicking out some nitrites. but since I am done with the meds I can really focus on lots of water changes as needed. hopefully it will not take by BB too long to take care of my nitrites now that the meds are gone.
I did a large water change on the tank today and plan on running carbon starting on monday. I am running two Aquaclear 110s on the tank. My plan is to take some of the extra angels plus filter media out, put the carbon in and run this in both filters for a week then put the angels filter media back in. does this sound right? I know I need to keep the old filter media in water while I do this. is it fine to just let it sit in a bucket of tank water? do i need to do anything else? should I dose the bucket with a little bit of ammonia to help my filters keep going? any advice on the filter media / running carbon part of this whole thing would be greatly appreciated!
As many of you may remember I have had many problems going on with this tank but now I think I am done.
To summarize... I started a fishless cycle on 21 Jan and finished it on 16 Feb (with the help of an angels pluss filter). I then added a bunch of fish from various locations. turns out my rainbows had columnaris and it spread to some of my other fish. treated with lowering the temp, salt and maracyn two. then my GBR got gill flukes so I started treating with prazipro. the prazipro worked, but my columnaris was not completely gone as I had originally thougt. So I started the tank on kanamycin. I do believe that worked but in the process it started harming my BB. The columnaris is now gone I am sure. Then I also found one case of anchor worms so then added cyropro. I am now done with all of that. WHEW!!!
that is more than enough for me!!so now that I am done with the meds my BB are in a bit of a shock and I think my fish are ready to be in a chemical free environment! I have my QT tank set up and have some new inhabitants getting ready to go into my clean tank when the time is right. I am planning on keeping them in QT for 4 weeks (I have learned what happens when you have sick fish in your tank!). This should give my tank time to be ready for my new guys. as of now I finally have my ammonia back to 0 and I am still kicking out some nitrites. but since I am done with the meds I can really focus on lots of water changes as needed. hopefully it will not take by BB too long to take care of my nitrites now that the meds are gone.
I did a large water change on the tank today and plan on running carbon starting on monday. I am running two Aquaclear 110s on the tank. My plan is to take some of the extra angels plus filter media out, put the carbon in and run this in both filters for a week then put the angels filter media back in. does this sound right? I know I need to keep the old filter media in water while I do this. is it fine to just let it sit in a bucket of tank water? do i need to do anything else? should I dose the bucket with a little bit of ammonia to help my filters keep going? any advice on the filter media / running carbon part of this whole thing would be greatly appreciated!
