My journey using Chloroquine Phosphate begins...
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I've never dosed an ammonia neutralizer (in my case, Amquel) in a QT I was treating with CP. However, I have used it in a bucket with a fish (still in CP treated water) I was transporting a long distance. No ill effects (at least not immediate). HTH and sorry to hear about the ich outbreak. 
Deinonych
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GroktheCube
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Water conditioner will be fine. Just be careful while you're mixing the salt. You'll probably have to go real slow and may need to add a little muriatic acid (or vinegar if you don't have it) to avoid precipitation, depending on your salt mix and how hard your water is.
Fully aerated, my tap water has a pH of around 8.1! I'm too lazy to do the long math, but I imagine that would put alkalinity at just around 6dkh. IO/RC and most other salt mixes would make a white soup if I were to try mixing them into my tap water without using an acid to drive down alkalinity.
Fully aerated, my tap water has a pH of around 8.1! I'm too lazy to do the long math, but I imagine that would put alkalinity at just around 6dkh. IO/RC and most other salt mixes would make a white soup if I were to try mixing them into my tap water without using an acid to drive down alkalinity.
Deinonych
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Yep - ours is even higher than that; around 8.5 if memory serves (a function of getting water from limestone aquifers). Works fine for (some) freshwater fish, but it's RO/DI for my marine friends.
Dmorty217
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Good points, this never crossed my mind. I'm trying to take shortcuts which typically don't turn out well in this hobby but I'm feeling very defeated at this point and want to get fish into treatment ASAP.
Dmorty217
Saltwater Addict
Well today is the day I tear my DT apart and catch all my fish and start using CP while my tank sits fallow for 12 wks starting tomorrow. I will be treating the following.
Orange shoulder tang
Tomini tang
Clown tang
One spot foxface
2 pyramid butterfly's
Harlequin tusk
Sargassum trigger
Melanarus wrasse
Coral beauty
Bellus female
2 potters angels
Zebra moray
Multibar angelfish
I will keep everyone updated to experiences, questions, and progress.
Orange shoulder tang
Tomini tang
Clown tang
One spot foxface
2 pyramid butterfly's
Harlequin tusk
Sargassum trigger
Melanarus wrasse
Coral beauty
Bellus female
2 potters angels
Zebra moray
Multibar angelfish
I will keep everyone updated to experiences, questions, and progress.
Dmorty217
Saltwater Addict
Me too. I have read of some having wrasse die in treatment so hopefully that doesn't happen. Forgot to my emperor angel in the list above
I'm in the same boat. After losing 50% of my fish in the past week to what I believe is velvet, I tore apart my 300 this weekend and removed the remaining fish. I started treating them in my QT with CP on Tuesday. I'm treating a lineatus, leopard, diamond tail flasher, pintail flasher, orange back fairy wrasses, regal angel, firefish, ocelaris clown, and desjardini tang. All of them seem to be doing fine but the tang appears to be developing a bacterial infection that I need to start treating.
Deinonych
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I've had bad results with flashers, so hopefully Halichoeres spp. fare better in general.
How quickly did you see adverse reactions in your flashers? I've been treating several flashers, fairies, and a leopard wrasse for a few days with CP and they seem to be handling it without any problems.
Deinonych
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Within 2-3 days. It always followed the same pattern - fine for the first day, started acting listless/disoriented the 2nd day, dead by the third. I use tank transfer for all new additions now. CP is reserved for velvet if it ever rears its ugly head.
qasim99
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I had an ich outbreak about 8 weeks ago. All but one of the fish pulled through thankfully.. i have had to dose my DT. 3 weeks ago i bought a small regal tang, along with 2 clownfish which i added to a QT, dosed with chloroquine as well. The tang was not too happy in the QT at all (He was looking terrified, pretending he was dead + hiding etc) , so i immediately added him to the DT, which was dosed with chloroquine as well. The tang is now in the DT for 3 weeks and has been eating (has a big belly) , although he does not swim around all the time, he spends most of his time in and around the rocks.
When i first added him, he used to frequently scratch against the rocks.
He hardly ever scratches now, but the scratching has not completely dissapeared (I saw im briefly scratching this morning when he woke up)
My question is: Can i switch on my lights now, since the tang has been in for 3 weeks (Other fish for 8 weeks!)? Or should i wait longer?
I was thinking of switching on lights today and then connecting the skimmer next week, maybe even running a filter with some carbon next week, before i put the corals back in. am just worried about the tang, that it shouldnt get sick, after all this time i have had my tank under treatment.
When i first added him, he used to frequently scratch against the rocks.
He hardly ever scratches now, but the scratching has not completely dissapeared (I saw im briefly scratching this morning when he woke up)
My question is: Can i switch on my lights now, since the tang has been in for 3 weeks (Other fish for 8 weeks!)? Or should i wait longer?
I was thinking of switching on lights today and then connecting the skimmer next week, maybe even running a filter with some carbon next week, before i put the corals back in. am just worried about the tang, that it shouldnt get sick, after all this time i have had my tank under treatment.
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I would wait until symptoms completely subside before turning the lights back on, but if you dosed CP in a DT with rock & substrate it might not matter anyway. I've yet to read of one success story where ich didn't come back after doing that.
Dmorty217
Saltwater Addict
One day I was acclimating a new fish and was called into work, my wife was left to put fish in tank... She put the fish in the DT instead of the QT
^^This is why I talk to my wife about my hobby in great detail, whether she wants to hear it or not.
qasim99
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Unfortunately, I have dosed it with rock and substrate. I am just curious though, why do you believe it won't be eradicated? I understand that if there are eggs present in the rock/substrate , then the chloroquine could not penetrate the surface of the eggs, but the eggs cannot stay dormant for ever, and once they hatch, won't the cp kill any free swimming parasites, or at the very least, prevent them from living off any of the fish, or is there something I'm missing?
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