Fish Trap?

[tri4god]

Anyone know where I can get a fish trap ASAP in San Jose? I need to catch a fish with possible ich.

 

[MMacro]

Neptune had some in stock last time I checked.

 

[d0ughb0y]

you can diy with a soda bottle. just google search it.
shouldn't you be treating all fish in the tank?

 

[tri4god]

I can't meet in San Carlos, sorry. I think I'll give the soda bottle thing a try. I was told to treat just the sick fish from a fellow hobbiest. Should I be QTing all the fish even if they dont have symptoms?

 

[Meshmez]

soda bottle works well. especially if you hold back feeding for a couple days.

and yes, if one has ich, they must all come out.

 

[tri4god]

Anyways, you should not be using anything in main display.

Are you saying I need to treat all the fish with my copper meds? Even if they look healthy?

 

[d0ughb0y]

read the stickies under fish disease treatment

 

[scuzy]

It's a std one has it all has it


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[tri4god]

Thanks for the help. I will QT all of them. Got my two clowns last night. Need to catch the Goby still. He is pretty smart. I am worried about ammonia in the new QT Tank. I threw some liverock from the sump in there to help. Ill do a waterchange on the 7 gallon QT in a week. Sound good?

 

[vhuang168]

Thanks for the help. I will QT all of them. Got my two clowns last night. Need to catch the Goby still. He is pretty smart. I am worried about ammonia in the new QT Tank. I threw some liverock from the sump in there to help. Ill do a waterchange on the 7 gallon QT in a week. Sound good?

Using anything wet from the infected tank is no good. You just infected the QT as well.



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[Julius Chen]

How bad is the infection?

In my 120g tank, my blue tang showed white spots (salt like) 2nd week of introduction. I chose not to treat, kept up water change. After 3-4 weeks, all signs gone. IF it had ich, the ich probably is still in the system.

I plan to treat only if more than 1 fish infected and infection alters fish behavior (never noticed my blue tang changed behavior).

I heard other disease/stress can show up as ich like symptoms. Also ich treatment itself can stress fish as well.

I am newbie, 5 minths into salt water.

 

[gablami]

Using anything wet from the infected tank is no good. You just infected the QT as well.



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Well, the fish are wet too, and presumable carry the parasite. So I would think that one would treat the QT tank regardless, right?


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[vhuang168]

Well, the fish are wet too, and presumable carry the parasite. So I would think that one would treat the QT tank regardless, right?


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No. By introducing a rock from an infected tank, you introduce encrusted ich on the rock to the qt.

This is the reason you leave a tank fallow for a minimum of 72 days. Time for the encrusted ich to release and die from lack of hosts.


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[Julius Chen]

I think in addition to fallow the DT for 72+ days, the fish should go through TTM before put in QT.

Agree with Vincent's comment on rocks from sump.

 

[tri4god]

Caught him in a bottle trap!

I was told 8 weeks fishless for the display. The White spots were only visible for 1 day, but the clown has been acting very shy, so I wanted to jump on the problem. Day 1 into QT with copper meds and all the spots have disappeared. I may have misdiagnosed the fish, but it did have white spots. I will try fishless for 8 weeks.