Ick!!!
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mikeguerrero
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Okay TS,
Keep me posted on the UV light, I thought you already had it. If it comes with a pump then I think you'll be okay.
Because most UV units allow the user to purchase the pump and many users get the wrong size, defeating the purpose of ever running one in the first place.
In my opinion a fish that has had ich in the past and survived should have a better immune of keeping the next ich attack at bay.
But remember that you'll have to keep all other parameters stable to keep him from becoming a victim to the second attack.
Say you get a second attack and this once powerful fish that survived doesn't get same amount of food, water changes, meds or UV can become victim because you tip the odds to the ich.
Does that make sense?
MG
Keep me posted on the UV light, I thought you already had it. If it comes with a pump then I think you'll be okay.
Because most UV units allow the user to purchase the pump and many users get the wrong size, defeating the purpose of ever running one in the first place.
In my opinion a fish that has had ich in the past and survived should have a better immune of keeping the next ich attack at bay.
But remember that you'll have to keep all other parameters stable to keep him from becoming a victim to the second attack.
Say you get a second attack and this once powerful fish that survived doesn't get same amount of food, water changes, meds or UV can become victim because you tip the odds to the ich.
Does that make sense?
MG
mikeguerrero
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TS-vash,
If you read my thread, you'll see that I was misinformed with the correct GPH to get.
The box read between 400-1200 to kill most parasites. So I had a Mag 7 lying around and connected it, so I was at about 480 gph, and thought cool I'm killing the parasites, wrong!!
As I turned to the last page on the instruction manual it says no more than 290 GPH for parasites, so I call the company and learn I'm at the wrong GPH.
So I purchase the Mag 350 and I'm at 283 gph and can rest assured I'm killing the free floating parasites.
Be sure to get the right size to kill parasites otherwise you are just killing algae spores and bacteria, parasites are larger and require more contact time to destroy their outer cell.
MG
If you read my thread, you'll see that I was misinformed with the correct GPH to get.
The box read between 400-1200 to kill most parasites. So I had a Mag 7 lying around and connected it, so I was at about 480 gph, and thought cool I'm killing the parasites, wrong!!
As I turned to the last page on the instruction manual it says no more than 290 GPH for parasites, so I call the company and learn I'm at the wrong GPH.
So I purchase the Mag 350 and I'm at 283 gph and can rest assured I'm killing the free floating parasites.
Be sure to get the right size to kill parasites otherwise you are just killing algae spores and bacteria, parasites are larger and require more contact time to destroy their outer cell.
MG
They are not a waste of time---
True--- most ich lives in the sand/substrate...however, they have to swim up from there and attach to a fish to get them sick. IF you have good water flow- the steralizer will take a hefty percentage of the ich out of the water permenantly.
Steralizers effect 2 stages of ich-
1. The swim from the gravel to the fish
2. The drop from the fish to the gravel.
I would definately rather have a steralizer then NOT have one.
Steralizers also cut down on the amount of algae growth as well.
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I saw some talking about them not comming with pumps... thats true- my turbotwist did not come with a pump or tubing.
I have an Ehiem Ecco canister that I run on the 75 gallon that I hooked the steralizer into on the exhaust with a t- valve so I could control flow. I basically split the eheim exhaust and it has a tube leading to the steralizer after the valve and then to a second 'J' hook that dumps the water back into the tank. Ill see about taking pictures.
I think the eheim is supposed to dump 240gph on a good day. I reduced flow on the steralizer side until i got 25% of the other lines flow. No ich for me.
Steven Pro
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Cryptocaryon irritans drops off fish at night. They also emerge from their cysts stages at night. Notice how most of your fish tend to bed down in the same place night after night? Also notice how that spot is generally a calm area of lower flow so that they don't get blown all over the place while resting? Because of this, when they are free-swimming, it is not like they have to travel great distances in your aquarium to find the substrate to encyst or to find a host when the "hatch". This lowers the likelihood that the UV will get the free-swimming stages.
-TS-Vash
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Update my fish were not making it in the 10 gallon so i treated them with copper and tomorrow im going to sell them to a petstore i go to all the time ill just have a empty tank for a few months and start all over i only have 5 fish now any way atleast i will have a empty tank and have a sterilizer running all that time and i will put all the new fish in a QT tank for a month before i add them to the display tank from now on. I wish i never wasted all this time on those meds i lost some great fish oh well.
mikeguerrero
New member
Well,
That seems like a lot of stress of your shoulders. There is nothing like having sick fish on you hands.
Make sure you get the correct GPH on that UV unit; otherwise you are wasting time and effort.
That seems like a lot of stress of your shoulders. There is nothing like having sick fish on you hands.
Make sure you get the correct GPH on that UV unit; otherwise you are wasting time and effort.
-TS-Vash
Member
I will i dont want the fish to die and they are so i have to get rid of them its not the credit ill get its that i want to save them i mean ill get no where near what they cost for them but they have stable older tanks that they can treat them in my QT tank is new and they would die.
