My apologies to the oceans, the hobbyists, and every fish I seem to come in contact.
Yet again I have proven unless it is a damsel or a chromis that I will undoubtably kill it.
Been fighting ich in a DT after some made it through my qt a month back.
The victims a Klein Butterfly and a FoxFace Rabbit. The butterlfy was losing its battle with ich and I was passed due to pull them back to qt for treatment. The fox was showing a couple spots on his fins, but otherwise was fine. To attempt to be consistent and get ich out of my dt I trapped both fish last night and pulled them to my qt.
The qt is a ten gallon tank running an old hob filter with no media. And a sponge/powerhead
set up that I have had in my sump for a month to gather bacteria. There is a 50w Heater and a few pieces of PVC T's. Thats the tank. Its been up and running for about 3 weeks, the sponge/powerhead was added yesterday.
The params
Temp 79
Salt 1.025
nitra too low to reg
nitri too low to reg
amm 0
ph 8.2
I added my fish to the QT last night at 8pm. The foxface was upset by the move but turned back to his yellow non camo self after about 45 min. The angel didnt even seem bothered by the move. Just continued to swim about, they both eat the few bits of food that made it in from the fish trap transfer, was mysis shrimp frozen cube. The remainder of the food was sucked from the bottom of the tank using my syringe feeder, trying to keep waste in the tank down.
Anyhow both seemed to acclimate quickly to the tank, slight heavy breathing but both acting normal. At midnight I dosed my first treatment of cupramine, using a 1ml syringe.
1ml administered gave me .02 reading on my salifert test kit, it was about 1am when I tested.
Happy that everything had went smoothly I went online to watch some vids of cod/bf3 trying to decide which one I was getting. At 2am I came back to check on the tank, the butterfly had sunk to the corner and passed. I was ****ed, but I knew I waited to long on the move and the butterfly was just too sick and stressed by the ich. But my fox face was looking decent, he was in his camo colors perched in a pvc looking like he was ready for bed, his normal deal is just crooking himself next to a rock and getting some rest. Nothing looked abnormal.
I said good night to my fish and gave an apologetic flush to my butterlfy and went off to bed.
11 am today. Eager to check how my fish was doing he was my first stop after waking up. He was floating next to the filter water inlet, dead of course.
Not long dead from my guess he was still soft and not discolored at all. After my initital 2 minutes of rage, I began to check how this could have happened.
I got nothing... tests all read the same from the first round. Copper is still sitting at 2ppm
At first I blamed heat, but upon checking the water with an oldschool therm it showed 79, my dig one occasionally gives wacky readings.
So Im at a loss. My tank params on my DT are very stable, and over the last few months Ive corrected alot of my beginner mistakes and my corals are all growing great, aside from the one chalice I cant seem to get results from.
The qt tank was set up and monitored closely without a param being off.
Im tired of killing fish.
If you can see a hole in my process or something I made a mistake with please tell me.
I am damn close to going fishless forever.
Will give this one more try after I run my tank fallow for the next 3 months.
Ill be keeping my qt tank running during this time and will be attempting to qt another potential inhabitant in time with my tank running out its fallow period.
Any recommendations or help or ideas please let me know
Yet again I have proven unless it is a damsel or a chromis that I will undoubtably kill it.
Been fighting ich in a DT after some made it through my qt a month back.
The victims a Klein Butterfly and a FoxFace Rabbit. The butterlfy was losing its battle with ich and I was passed due to pull them back to qt for treatment. The fox was showing a couple spots on his fins, but otherwise was fine. To attempt to be consistent and get ich out of my dt I trapped both fish last night and pulled them to my qt.
The qt is a ten gallon tank running an old hob filter with no media. And a sponge/powerhead
set up that I have had in my sump for a month to gather bacteria. There is a 50w Heater and a few pieces of PVC T's. Thats the tank. Its been up and running for about 3 weeks, the sponge/powerhead was added yesterday.
The params
Temp 79
Salt 1.025
nitra too low to reg
nitri too low to reg
amm 0
ph 8.2
I added my fish to the QT last night at 8pm. The foxface was upset by the move but turned back to his yellow non camo self after about 45 min. The angel didnt even seem bothered by the move. Just continued to swim about, they both eat the few bits of food that made it in from the fish trap transfer, was mysis shrimp frozen cube. The remainder of the food was sucked from the bottom of the tank using my syringe feeder, trying to keep waste in the tank down.
Anyhow both seemed to acclimate quickly to the tank, slight heavy breathing but both acting normal. At midnight I dosed my first treatment of cupramine, using a 1ml syringe.
1ml administered gave me .02 reading on my salifert test kit, it was about 1am when I tested.
Happy that everything had went smoothly I went online to watch some vids of cod/bf3 trying to decide which one I was getting. At 2am I came back to check on the tank, the butterfly had sunk to the corner and passed. I was ****ed, but I knew I waited to long on the move and the butterfly was just too sick and stressed by the ich. But my fox face was looking decent, he was in his camo colors perched in a pvc looking like he was ready for bed, his normal deal is just crooking himself next to a rock and getting some rest. Nothing looked abnormal.
I said good night to my fish and gave an apologetic flush to my butterlfy and went off to bed.
11 am today. Eager to check how my fish was doing he was my first stop after waking up. He was floating next to the filter water inlet, dead of course.
Not long dead from my guess he was still soft and not discolored at all. After my initital 2 minutes of rage, I began to check how this could have happened.
I got nothing... tests all read the same from the first round. Copper is still sitting at 2ppm
At first I blamed heat, but upon checking the water with an oldschool therm it showed 79, my dig one occasionally gives wacky readings.
So Im at a loss. My tank params on my DT are very stable, and over the last few months Ive corrected alot of my beginner mistakes and my corals are all growing great, aside from the one chalice I cant seem to get results from.
The qt tank was set up and monitored closely without a param being off.
Im tired of killing fish.
If you can see a hole in my process or something I made a mistake with please tell me.
I am damn close to going fishless forever.
Will give this one more try after I run my tank fallow for the next 3 months.
Ill be keeping my qt tank running during this time and will be attempting to qt another potential inhabitant in time with my tank running out its fallow period.
Any recommendations or help or ideas please let me know
. I put a fish infested with ich into my frag tank which had about 5 fish consistently eating food with metranirozole in it. None of the inhabitants got ich and that badly infested new inhabitant recovered 2 weeks later. It works