Interesting night

[ryan_ferguson25]

I do QT after ttm. The problem with that is you have to be way more careful with your filtration, or keep up on huge water changes to keep your Ammonia in check. I have a 36gallon tank that I move the fish to. I run it with a hob filter, and throw a couple of bio balls that are seeded with bacteria from my main rank. I also purchased bottled bacteria from Dr. Fosters and add that as well. I will keep the fish in there for another month or so to make sure no signs of disease show.

I'll then move them to the DT and toss the bio ball and drain and dry everything out. I usually wait several months between purchasing new fish because 1) it takes a bunch time/work and 2) I like to give my DT time to adjust after adding new fish.

Thx for the info...I've got 2 options... qt myself or leave at the LFS QT till my fallow period ends... I will b qt'ing everything from now on... but I'm just concerned about 4 fish in a 10 gallon qt for 5 weeks....

 

[bill120reef]

get a cleaner wrasse. and cleaner shrimp.

 

[heathlindner25]

get a cleaner wrasse. and cleaner shrimp.

It's that easy?

 

[Shawn O]

get a cleaner wrasse. and cleaner shrimp.

It's that easy?

LOL!

But if his fish already have ich it won't do any good to qt. the parasite is already in the tank. Unless you just stay with the fish you have for a while till they either die or develop immunity you can't add more fish

Ich is a parasite, not a disease. There is no such thing as becoming immune to ich. Fish are no more "immune" to ich than you can become immune to leeches or ticks. If you have five fish in a tank and you pull the one most susceptible to ich, the parasite will just infest the next fish. If you pull out one fish each week, the last fish will be left with all of the remaining parasites in the tank. Once the parasite is in your tank it will be there until it starves to death. Not trying to be a ****, just being blunt.

To the OP, your best best would be to do the TTM yourself so you know for sure it was actually done right and not take the word of the guy who's trying to sell you new fish (LFS). You could (if space and funds allow) set up a small tank, say 20-30 gals, to use as an observation QT once TTM is done and keep it up and running full time. Other than water movement, oxygenation and heating, it's just an empty cycled tank (fallow) waiting for fish.

 

[Betaktical]

LOL!









Ich is a parasite, not a disease. There is no such thing as becoming immune to ich. Fish are no more "immune" to ich than you can become immune to leeches or ticks. If you have five fish in a tank and you pull the one most susceptible to ich, the parasite will just infest the next fish. If you pull out one fish each week, the last fish will be left with all of the remaining parasites in the tank. Once the parasite is in your tank it will be there until it starves to death. Not trying to be a ****, just being blunt.



To the OP, your best best would be to do the TTM yourself so you know for sure it was actually done right and not take the word of the guy who's trying to sell you new fish (LFS). You could (if space and funds allow) set up a small tank, say 20-30 gals, to use as an observation QT once TTM is done and keep it up and running full time. Other than water movement, oxygenation and heating, it's just an empty cycled tank (fallow) waiting for fish.

So ich only goes for one fish at a time? I've never heard of that...


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[pisanoal]

LOL!




Ich is a parasite, not a disease. There is no such thing as becoming immune to ich. Fish are no more "immune" to ich than you can become immune to leeches or ticks. If you have five fish in a tank and you pull the one most susceptible to ich, the parasite will just infest the next fish. If you pull out one fish each week, the last fish will be left with all of the remaining parasites in the tank. Once the parasite is in your tank it will be there until it starves to death. Not trying to be a ****, just being blunt.

To the OP, your best best would be to do the TTM yourself so you know for sure it was actually done right and not take the word of the guy who's trying to sell you new fish (LFS). You could (if space and funds allow) set up a small tank, say 20-30 gals, to use as an observation QT once TTM is done and keep it up and running full time. Other than water movement, oxygenation and heating, it's just an empty cycled tank (fallow) waiting for fish.

What's interesting is this one of the few areas that there have actually been scientific studies done. And fish can develop a certain level of "immunity" to ich, as shown in the studies. They are cited in past threads on here. I would not however assume my fish are immune and leave them in a display for the "fallow" period and call it Good. Even if I knew they were resistant to it, I would still assume they carried a few parasites through the life cycle each time and are not totally immune, as you suggested.