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Just a small update. Picked up a lot of frags since my last photoshoot and some fish.
- Blonde Naso
- 4 Lyretail Anthias
- Some more designer clownfish
My apex also went on the fritz after installing my second EB8 power bar. My temperature and PH spikes to 120/12.5 for a few seconds and drops bacck down triggering all my failsafes and screws up my light timers etc.... Spoke with neptune and I had to get another controller. It just arrived today and everything is back to normal. Unfortunately, the controller wasnt free =( Oh wells.
I will post another full tank shot soon. Everything was lightstressed for awhile now but things are regaining colour and growing well. Hope for smooth sailing from now on ;D
You should see the raw edited file. Forums only allow jpegs =(
- Blonde Naso
- 4 Lyretail Anthias
- Some more designer clownfish
My apex also went on the fritz after installing my second EB8 power bar. My temperature and PH spikes to 120/12.5 for a few seconds and drops bacck down triggering all my failsafes and screws up my light timers etc.... Spoke with neptune and I had to get another controller. It just arrived today and everything is back to normal. Unfortunately, the controller wasnt free =( Oh wells.
I will post another full tank shot soon. Everything was lightstressed for awhile now but things are regaining colour and growing well. Hope for smooth sailing from now on ;D
I should start a reef photography business selling large prints of zoas to hang on the wall. Pretty smexxy ;DDarryl_V link said:
You should see the raw edited file. Forums only allow jpegs =(
Well just a small update.
I have been working on a huge fishroom that will soon be stocked with some designer clownfish. As for my DT, ive been battling cyano for the past week and it is driving me nuts. Making large water changes, replaced gfo, lowered photoperiod etc..... guess ill just have to tough it out and wait, but its getting all over my corals and they dont look so hot. :'( Turkey basting 3 times a day sucks!
Also, I got another powder blue, and it decided to ich on me AGAIN. Just lost a naso, 4 lyretails and picasso clowns :? :? :? :?
I am going to try and catch all the remaining fish and have a fishless tank for a 2 months (just to be safe). All fish will be moved to QT and will be either copper treating or hypo depending on which I decide to do.
Ah well.
I have been working on a huge fishroom that will soon be stocked with some designer clownfish. As for my DT, ive been battling cyano for the past week and it is driving me nuts. Making large water changes, replaced gfo, lowered photoperiod etc..... guess ill just have to tough it out and wait, but its getting all over my corals and they dont look so hot. :'( Turkey basting 3 times a day sucks!
Also, I got another powder blue, and it decided to ich on me AGAIN. Just lost a naso, 4 lyretails and picasso clowns :? :? :? :?
I am going to try and catch all the remaining fish and have a fishless tank for a 2 months (just to be safe). All fish will be moved to QT and will be either copper treating or hypo depending on which I decide to do.
Ah well.
sunnykita
Super Active Member
ich sucks, I know many don't like to use copper, but I found that cupramine worked well in a treatment tank for my issue. I tried ich x but it didn't work well at all for me. The cupramine worked and I could see an improvement in how the fish acted after the first treatment. Fish only, not safe with invertebrates.
I've started adding garlic to the food, I've been told that a tank in a restaurant with one wall facing the kitchen had recurring ich and the garlic added to either the food or into the tank has prevented it from returning. The product they used is kent marine garlic xtreme it can be used as a food soak or dropped directly into the tank. I know others use garlic from the grocery store, but thought I'd give this a try.
I've started adding garlic to the food, I've been told that a tank in a restaurant with one wall facing the kitchen had recurring ich and the garlic added to either the food or into the tank has prevented it from returning. The product they used is kent marine garlic xtreme it can be used as a food soak or dropped directly into the tank. I know others use garlic from the grocery store, but thought I'd give this a try.
Poseidon
Distinguished Member
Darryl_V link said:
+1,
Ick is always present in every system. It's just the fish constantly fight it off, which is easily done if they are healthy, but when something else happens to make them stressed, there immune system lowers and they can no longer fight it off.
2 month Fishless cycle should starve them out. All other fish will be copper treated, and qt'd before adding. The only way that ich can get back in is if I add corals. The corals will be in a fishless qt tank for a month before addition as well. I will see if it works. Also, garlic I dont think does much if anything for fighting ich, however I will be adding some immune boosters their diet.
Poseidon
Distinguished Member
Flazky link said:
Garlic makes food more enticing which in turn keeps the fishes strength up and helps his immune system. It doesn't actually do anything to fight the ich, but is part of a process to get the fish to eat, which helps in the long run.
If I have a fish with ich, and he's eating, I typically do nothing. As it will fight it off on it's own.
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Rappyfly
Guest
That is exactly what I do. Dont want to destroy a whole tank to catch fishes and place them in QT tank. making them even more stress.
AdInfinitum
Super Active Member
Awesome Acans! 8)
My Powder Blue started having Ich/Ich-like issues and I eventually narrowed it down to a reaction (Fish Hives??) to some Pro-Salt frozen food I had been trying out. Specifically the ones with gelatin in them. Reaction to the food irritates the skin...secondary infection moves in. Not to be cruel...but I tried three times, same reaction each time weeks apart. Sohal eats the same food no problem but he's as tough as they come.
+1 to "if they're eating let them ride it out"
My Powder Blue started having Ich/Ich-like issues and I eventually narrowed it down to a reaction (Fish Hives??) to some Pro-Salt frozen food I had been trying out. Specifically the ones with gelatin in them. Reaction to the food irritates the skin...secondary infection moves in. Not to be cruel...but I tried three times, same reaction each time weeks apart. Sohal eats the same food no problem but he's as tough as they come.
+1 to "if they're eating let them ride it out"
