WaterBox 220.6 The 2023 Rebuild
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So we’ve started adding fish back to the tank post fallow period. We’ve put a lot of trust and money in at Neptune’s QT process too. Our sole survivor Desi the Desjardini went back in and has continued to thrive despite being super skinny since day one.
We’ve since added these guys:
Lil Blue-regal blue tang
Cori-yellow coris wrasse
Leo-leopard wrasse
Jamie Jr.-magnificent foxface
Pierce Jr.-powder blue tang
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We’ve since added these guys:
Lil Blue-regal blue tang
Cori-yellow coris wrasse
Leo-leopard wrasse
Jamie Jr.-magnificent foxface
Pierce Jr.-powder blue tang
Sent from my iPhone using MASC - Marine Aquarium Society of Colorado
I am not trying to hate, but I doubt that those wrasses were QT'd perfectly for full disease eradication or else they likely would not be alive. They could be totally OK and likely got some level of treatment and I certainly do not do true QT on my fish, but it might be a good idea for you all to have at least a 10g tank with a power filter and some copper and prazi on hand if you need it. I doubt that anybody will do a true Jay Hemdal type of multiple round QT with copper PROPERLY, a few rounds of prazi and even formalin if Brook is an issue (damsels & clowns). Even fish that were exposed but not infected too bad to develop short term immunity which usually does the trick and even a bad QT can take care of small infections.
Dr. Reef and the other super loud pre-QT places have taken a lot of flack lately for letting diseases get through, so probably the only way to do it is to do it yourself... or at least be prepared to intervene if you have to. I am not saying that a true full-QT is necessary (I don't do it), just don't trust them TOO much... if that makes sense.
I am not trying to be a buzz kill - I hope that you do not think that.
Dr. Reef and the other super loud pre-QT places have taken a lot of flack lately for letting diseases get through, so probably the only way to do it is to do it yourself... or at least be prepared to intervene if you have to. I am not saying that a true full-QT is necessary (I don't do it), just don't trust them TOO much... if that makes sense.
I am not trying to be a buzz kill - I hope that you do not think that.
Appreciate the feedback. We do actually have a QT setup currently running, with two clowns and a 6 line in copper.
We can’t truly protect from everything, so we’re doing the multi-prong (or what I call the carpet-bomb) approach. We got the Florida live rock like you recommended, and we’re only adding fish we’ve quarantined through copper or TTM ourselves, or are coming from a trusted quarantine source (Neptunes included).
Can’t truly protect from everything.
But Pierce the second (the powder blue) still isn’t showing any crypt. So I think we’re gonna call it a success so far. Since we lost literally all our fish (other than desi) to some sort of crypt/velvet?/cancer disease and had to do fallow for so long, we’re hopeful that this is working.
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We can’t truly protect from everything, so we’re doing the multi-prong (or what I call the carpet-bomb) approach. We got the Florida live rock like you recommended, and we’re only adding fish we’ve quarantined through copper or TTM ourselves, or are coming from a trusted quarantine source (Neptunes included).
Can’t truly protect from everything.
But Pierce the second (the powder blue) still isn’t showing any crypt. So I think we’re gonna call it a success so far. Since we lost literally all our fish (other than desi) to some sort of crypt/velvet?/cancer disease and had to do fallow for so long, we’re hopeful that this is working.
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