Chloroquine Primer
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Dmorty217
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It's the UV light that you have to worry about so light from lamps and such in your home don't really pose a problem but bright light that comes from most of the fixtures for marine aquariums will have the degrading effects from UV light. As far as how much is too much, I'm not really sure anyone knows for sure. Machines that you can use to test the CP in water are expensive
Mishri
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Well, my powder blue tang damaged his eye while glancing and it looked like it was getting infected. I dosed melafix and pimafix along with CP... I guess we'll see how that works out for me. I couldn't find anyone else who has tried it. I'm not sure how popular those are for infections.. I've read mixed reviews, decided to try it because most people say doesn't hurt, might not help, sometimes it works...
Dmorty217
Saltwater Addict
Be sure and keep a close eye on ammonia
Dmorty217
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Great point, and a very valid one
Mishri
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I've never fished the ocean, but I know there are fish adapted for night, for day, and for dusk/dawn in the ocean. In rivers/lakes dusk/dawn tends to be the best time. But for our reef fish most are daytime feeders, and have poor night/dusk/dawn vision, which is why they hide(from predators, which usually have good dawn/dusk and/or night vision).
I can tell you, from both experience fishing and putting aquarium fish through CP - they need very very very little light.
In my old house I had my sump in the basement (no windows) and pumped water into the tank on the second floor. My watchman goby must have gone over the overflow - because when I broke down the tank to move after years of not seeing the goby, I found it alive and well in the sump.
My old treatment tank was a trashcan. I would keep the lid loosely on so they could not jump out and just enough for the airline to fit through. Again - very minimal light and they did fine. Like all animals, they need sleep but they rapidly adjust to low light conditions and feed when hungry.
If you have fished fresh water - you can catch a bass in the morning, midday, evening and night full or new moon. Salt is pretty much the same. Some species like wrasse like to bed down and hide at night, but that said - I have even caught a tautog (type of wrasse) at night.
In my old house I had my sump in the basement (no windows) and pumped water into the tank on the second floor. My watchman goby must have gone over the overflow - because when I broke down the tank to move after years of not seeing the goby, I found it alive and well in the sump.
My old treatment tank was a trashcan. I would keep the lid loosely on so they could not jump out and just enough for the airline to fit through. Again - very minimal light and they did fine. Like all animals, they need sleep but they rapidly adjust to low light conditions and feed when hungry.
If you have fished fresh water - you can catch a bass in the morning, midday, evening and night full or new moon. Salt is pretty much the same. Some species like wrasse like to bed down and hide at night, but that said - I have even caught a tautog (type of wrasse) at night.
Dmorty217
Saltwater Addict
CP is a great algacide so yes remove any macro you don't want to die
I'm going to be dosing ick shield in my 180g fowlr w/ 75g sump + 40g fuge. The instructions say 21 days of treatment, but the first post says 30 days.
Should I do 21 per the instructions or 30? Also anything I need to be aware of besides limiting any lights to the tank?
Thanks,
Brandon
Should I do 21 per the instructions or 30? Also anything I need to be aware of besides limiting any lights to the tank?
Thanks,
Brandon
