MandM
sick yet brilliant
Your post was not a question, just an incorrect statement:
"If your tank params are fine, you shoudlnt have a ick problem, doesn't ick only occur in a tank with bad water. Every fish has ick, but something had to trigger it like stress or bad water."
Crypto only occurs in a tank infected with crypto. Although referred to as "marine ich" it is not the same as ich that is seen in FW tanks.
Our first reef had an outbreak of flatworms, about a week after our first frag swap. No QT, right into the display. We were advised at Capitol to add a velvet nudibranch. They eat flatworms like crazy. Then they die of starvation and become toxic. That bugger killed a pair of clownfish that had been guarding their first clutch of eggs, a yellow tang that may have had crypto, and a mandarin that actually ate frozen and flake food. We started the reef over and let it sit fallow (no fish) for 2 months, keeping normal water changes and carbon in the filters. This allowed a nice population of pods and worms to establish. No wet object, macro, crab, snail,coral or fish escape the QT queen now.
"I wouldnt see myself running up and down my stairs with a fish in net from the qt tank to the main, if my qt was upstairs."
I would hope not. Plastic containers work fine when moving a fish.
"If your tank params are fine, you shoudlnt have a ick problem, doesn't ick only occur in a tank with bad water. Every fish has ick, but something had to trigger it like stress or bad water."
Crypto only occurs in a tank infected with crypto. Although referred to as "marine ich" it is not the same as ich that is seen in FW tanks.
Our first reef had an outbreak of flatworms, about a week after our first frag swap. No QT, right into the display. We were advised at Capitol to add a velvet nudibranch. They eat flatworms like crazy. Then they die of starvation and become toxic. That bugger killed a pair of clownfish that had been guarding their first clutch of eggs, a yellow tang that may have had crypto, and a mandarin that actually ate frozen and flake food. We started the reef over and let it sit fallow (no fish) for 2 months, keeping normal water changes and carbon in the filters. This allowed a nice population of pods and worms to establish. No wet object, macro, crab, snail,coral or fish escape the QT queen now.
"I wouldnt see myself running up and down my stairs with a fish in net from the qt tank to the main, if my qt was upstairs."
I would hope not. Plastic containers work fine when moving a fish.
