cthetoy
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Got my tax refund 2 months ago and spent a good chunk upgrading my reef tank ie. new lighting, reflectors, CA Reactor, dosing pump, some LPS and SPS corals and of course some new tank mates for my fish. Lighting upgrade went well, got my phosphate down with Phosban Reactor which I also just purchased. Started my bi weekly water changed instead monthly. I also removed and rinsed my sand bed as well as moved them more towards the front away from the live rock so I can vacuum and clean it easier. Then came my new tank mates, a heni, juvenille Imperator Angel , Clown Tang,and a Red Sea Regal Angel. My current fish for 5 years are Powder Blue Tang, 3 yellow tang, 1 blue tang, Copper Band, and a Coral Beauty. My first mistake was I added the fish over the course of a month but never quarantined them and the new fish got ich as well as my power blue and copperband. Usually garlic does the trick as Ive done numerous of time before but this time it did not work. Now all the fish that had ich are all dead. I treated some in the main tank with garlic and I treated some in a quarantine tank with hypo treatment/garlic and the results were the same. All the other fish had no signs of ich and acted if nothing happened and are ok today
So I add 4 new fish and lose 6. I even bought another Imperator to cope with my lost and put him in another seperate quarantine tank. Ate quite well for 2 weeks and even ate from my fingers. Over the weekend the pump went out somehow and it was a super hot weekend. Tank temp hit 84 degrees and the Imperator was gasping for air. It also got ich in just 5 hours and died the next day.
Last night I had a hard time sleeping and kept thinking of the failures. I spent more to upgrade, more time reading this forum and yet I end up in worse shape. The only high point are some of my browned out SPS I had for 2 years are coloring up slowly with the upgrades but my fish had character and thats painful to lose not to mention countless sleepness nights and few hundred dollars down the drain in fish losses.
Yet Im not giving up. I guess I have to treat all new fish as if they have ich and start with the hypo treatment right away. Sorry for the long boring post.
So I add 4 new fish and lose 6. I even bought another Imperator to cope with my lost and put him in another seperate quarantine tank. Ate quite well for 2 weeks and even ate from my fingers. Over the weekend the pump went out somehow and it was a super hot weekend. Tank temp hit 84 degrees and the Imperator was gasping for air. It also got ich in just 5 hours and died the next day.
Last night I had a hard time sleeping and kept thinking of the failures. I spent more to upgrade, more time reading this forum and yet I end up in worse shape. The only high point are some of my browned out SPS I had for 2 years are coloring up slowly with the upgrades but my fish had character and thats painful to lose not to mention countless sleepness nights and few hundred dollars down the drain in fish losses.
Yet Im not giving up. I guess I have to treat all new fish as if they have ich and start with the hypo treatment right away. Sorry for the long boring post.