Hello, Geezer coming back to this forum. Paul B
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wvned
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Usually the water looks really cloudy until I remove my glasses.OOOhhhh NNNooooo. I just looked in my tank and virtually all the fish had spots..........
Then I cleaned my reading glasses, and all the spots went away.
my hippo tang had a really rough early life with the crash of my 425L, an emergency run in a bucket to the LFS for 2 weeks, back to my hospital tank, then into my back up nano tank, back into the hospital tank, back into my nano, then finally into her current M100 home. But she was a very small juvenile when I got her so she fit into those small emergency quarters. the downside was she would ONLY eat pellets for the longest time. Once I introduced other fish (my big ones being the foxface and the sailfin) suddenly she became more social and started taking to the random algae growing on the back wall of the tank, and even watches the foxface and sailfin eating nori strips. But the hippo really cracks me up, if she's by her self, she would just hide and waste away, if there are other fish she's very social and wants to see what everyone else is doing.
The Chromis think she's pretty cool and follow her whenever they can.
The Chromis think she's pretty cool and follow her whenever they can.
I have seen ick come and go, I have mixed feelings about it (mostly because I am naive) but I saw this hippo tang of mine one morning covered in salty ick spots and I thought I need to treat her immediately, this is bad. By the time my ick treatment arrived, it had cleared up. so i never did open up the treatment product.OOOhhhh NNNooooo. I just looked in my tank and virtually all the fish had spots..........
Then I cleaned my reading glasses, and all the spots went away.
wvned
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Usually the appearance of a disease in you tank is caused by something going wrong with the tank you haven't noticed. All of the diseases we encounter are faced by normal healthy fish and survived in the sea. Normal healthy fish in your tank can too. Clean water that moves and good food are your number one goals. If you dont fix whats wrong you will lose fish over and over again. This makes many people give up. It is what it is. Don't fixate on the diseases.
There will always be some fish that don't make it. Some seem to have nutritional requirements I never figured out. I think chromis groups fail because they pair off and spawn in the tank and then are worried to death trying to protect the eggs and eventually expire. I had beautiful groups of anthias that slowly died one at a time over a long period. I finally decided I would not live long enough to figure out some things and went a different way with other animals.
Paul B
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It's usually the treatment we give that kills the fish, not the disease we are trying to cure.
wvned
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The treatments are toxic and need to be used with skill to have any chance. It is doubly hard for a new person unsure of their skills.It's usually the treatment we give that kills the fish, not the disease we are trying to cure.
