Browndawg80
New member
Let me start by saying that I read the first 20 pages or so of the sticky dedicated to this topic but didn't see my questions asked by anyone else.
I had a large purple tang, pair of oscellaris clowns, pair of fire fish, 1 chromis, and 2 fairy wrasses in my 55 gallon QT. the tang was the last fish added and showed Ich shortly after arrival. Because of this I decided to treat all of the fish with TTM before adding to my DT which has been running for 7 weeks with no fish ever being in it. I was worried about ammonia buildup with this number of fish so I split them into 2 groups and placed each batch into a 20 gallon brute with about 12 gallons of water each. For the second and fourth transfers I'm planning on moving all of the fish back into my 55 gallon QT ( now sterilized) that they were originally in and just wanted to confirm that this would be ok to do.
Also I followed all the rules exactly except that for the first transfer I moved the heater that was in the 55 over along with one group of fish. I have since purchased another heater to use so I won't have to do that again. Before moving the heater I soaked it in hot water with vinegar and let it dry for 2 hours or so before using it. I know now that I shouldn't have done that but I'm planning on doing a 5th transfer at the end just in case. Will this be ok or have I already butchered this thing?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I had a large purple tang, pair of oscellaris clowns, pair of fire fish, 1 chromis, and 2 fairy wrasses in my 55 gallon QT. the tang was the last fish added and showed Ich shortly after arrival. Because of this I decided to treat all of the fish with TTM before adding to my DT which has been running for 7 weeks with no fish ever being in it. I was worried about ammonia buildup with this number of fish so I split them into 2 groups and placed each batch into a 20 gallon brute with about 12 gallons of water each. For the second and fourth transfers I'm planning on moving all of the fish back into my 55 gallon QT ( now sterilized) that they were originally in and just wanted to confirm that this would be ok to do.
Also I followed all the rules exactly except that for the first transfer I moved the heater that was in the 55 over along with one group of fish. I have since purchased another heater to use so I won't have to do that again. Before moving the heater I soaked it in hot water with vinegar and let it dry for 2 hours or so before using it. I know now that I shouldn't have done that but I'm planning on doing a 5th transfer at the end just in case. Will this be ok or have I already butchered this thing?
Thanks in advance for any help.
