kare-bear
Member
Hello All,
I have been reefing for about 7 years. I currently have a 1 year running 175 bow front built in reef. I have done QT on every fish and treated with Prazipro and Cupramine as a precaution. I coral dipped all frags. The only thing that I was not perfect on was adding crabs, snails, with only drip acclimation but I never added the store water to my DT. The newest item in the past 2 months was a few feather dusters, 2 coco worms and some snails. I did a major cleaning and 40 % water change, I vacuumed 1/4 of my sand. Now my blue tang has signs of ich within 2 days of the new water. I am very disappointed and not looking forward to the daunting task of setting up about 4 QT tanks and the fallow period. My question is..... Can my fish tolerate another round of the Copper? Does heavy metal stay in the fish's system and build up over time? I don't want to do tank transfer because it seems overwhelming to me but if it would shorten the lifespan to receive more copper I will do Tank Transfer. Also, who does QT snails and for how long? I know the Ick can be on their shell but not actually infect the animal....how long do you keep new "wet stuff" in a QT tank. My plan is to get all fish out.....take my Hoeven Wrasse back to the fish store because he was a bad choice (although beautiful) and let the Tank stay fallow for the 72 days, but I will add a bunch of snails this week and start the fallow period at that point. I need more clean-up crew so I will add them now and let them settle in. Thank you for your thoughts and any advice/support....Also, please leave out advice on how to treat with garlic and other remedies in tank instead of removing all fish....it is such a tired topic of debate. Thanks
I have been reefing for about 7 years. I currently have a 1 year running 175 bow front built in reef. I have done QT on every fish and treated with Prazipro and Cupramine as a precaution. I coral dipped all frags. The only thing that I was not perfect on was adding crabs, snails, with only drip acclimation but I never added the store water to my DT. The newest item in the past 2 months was a few feather dusters, 2 coco worms and some snails. I did a major cleaning and 40 % water change, I vacuumed 1/4 of my sand. Now my blue tang has signs of ich within 2 days of the new water. I am very disappointed and not looking forward to the daunting task of setting up about 4 QT tanks and the fallow period. My question is..... Can my fish tolerate another round of the Copper? Does heavy metal stay in the fish's system and build up over time? I don't want to do tank transfer because it seems overwhelming to me but if it would shorten the lifespan to receive more copper I will do Tank Transfer. Also, who does QT snails and for how long? I know the Ick can be on their shell but not actually infect the animal....how long do you keep new "wet stuff" in a QT tank. My plan is to get all fish out.....take my Hoeven Wrasse back to the fish store because he was a bad choice (although beautiful) and let the Tank stay fallow for the 72 days, but I will add a bunch of snails this week and start the fallow period at that point. I need more clean-up crew so I will add them now and let them settle in. Thank you for your thoughts and any advice/support....Also, please leave out advice on how to treat with garlic and other remedies in tank instead of removing all fish....it is such a tired topic of debate. Thanks
