dank tank
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Alright so I've had my 55 gallon reef/fish tank for about 6 months and I'm in my junior year in college so money is scarce.
I started off a complete rookie, never did water changes, didn't have the proper equipment, didn't check my water etc.
Over those 6 months I had many corals and fish die, but didn't look much into it besides for the fact I didn't give then tank enough care and I almost decided to give it all up together.
Then I began researching and talking to the guys at my LFS and started putting the pieces I was missing together.
I eventually got my skimmer, poly reactor, got the water in check etc., and the fish continued to die.
The fish would develop white spots all over their body (I assume is ich) and others wouldn't. Some would die within days other would die within weeks. All in all no fish would make it besides my inverts. Most would develop white spots, then the white spots would turn into puffy boils and the fish would eventually die off.
4 weeks ago I took out all of the fish in my tank, and let a buddy hold them in his QT with meds and eventually they all died off. I have a lot of coral in my tank so I could not run the recommended treatments I've heard about in my DT such as the hyposalinity and meds.
Currently I have all my water parameters perfect and the tank has been fishless for 4 weeks.
I am wondering how long will I have to continue to keep my tank fishless? and if there is anything else I can do to ensure the parasite/s that were killing my fish will not be in there when I introduce new fish to the DT.
Anything will help, I've invested so much time and money and I am starting to get my reef looking really nice, and want to stay as far away from another let down as possible. Please help
I started off a complete rookie, never did water changes, didn't have the proper equipment, didn't check my water etc.
Over those 6 months I had many corals and fish die, but didn't look much into it besides for the fact I didn't give then tank enough care and I almost decided to give it all up together.
Then I began researching and talking to the guys at my LFS and started putting the pieces I was missing together.
I eventually got my skimmer, poly reactor, got the water in check etc., and the fish continued to die.
The fish would develop white spots all over their body (I assume is ich) and others wouldn't. Some would die within days other would die within weeks. All in all no fish would make it besides my inverts. Most would develop white spots, then the white spots would turn into puffy boils and the fish would eventually die off.
4 weeks ago I took out all of the fish in my tank, and let a buddy hold them in his QT with meds and eventually they all died off. I have a lot of coral in my tank so I could not run the recommended treatments I've heard about in my DT such as the hyposalinity and meds.
Currently I have all my water parameters perfect and the tank has been fishless for 4 weeks.
I am wondering how long will I have to continue to keep my tank fishless? and if there is anything else I can do to ensure the parasite/s that were killing my fish will not be in there when I introduce new fish to the DT.
Anything will help, I've invested so much time and money and I am starting to get my reef looking really nice, and want to stay as far away from another let down as possible. Please help
