stephen sykes
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other than the tank, what else do i need?
qt tank question.
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Illuminati
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Heater and a small powerhead. Keep it simple, a cheap 10 gallon would be perfect.
stephen sykes
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no filteration? also, what should i add to the water?
stephen sykes
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i cant get a good picture that shows the spots. they both have a few white crystal loking spots on their bodys and a few white spots on the clear outer parts of their fins.
heres how the tanks looking.
heres how the tanks looking.
Illuminati
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Sounds like ich 
Sometime young clowns start to grow a third stripe and it starts off as a dot but your clowns already have all their stripes and the crystal looking spots doesn't sound good.
On a plus side your tank is looking great
Check out the fish diesese forum here for other treatments and advise on ich. I've never had it so I can't really help to much.
Good luck.
Sometime young clowns start to grow a third stripe and it starts off as a dot but your clowns already have all their stripes and the crystal looking spots doesn't sound good.
On a plus side your tank is looking great
Check out the fish diesese forum here for other treatments and advise on ich. I've never had it so I can't really help to much.
Good luck.
stephen sykes
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if the treatment dosnt work i'll have to take the fish out for 6 weeks. im not looking forward to catching my o/s goby.
Doglover_50
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You could add a sponge filter which is just an aerator and the filter itself. Maybe add an elbow of PVC pipe or something so the fish have somewhere to hide.
stephen, when you say treatment, what treatment? If your fish have ich, you should NOT be treating them in your display tank because the medicine (copper, most likely) will kill things in the tank like inverts. There really is no effective treatment that is safe to put in a reef tank--thus, the fish must come out.
That said, you can give your fish a few days to see if their immune systems can overcome the disease (people recommend adding garlic and additives/vitamins--selcon, I think) to the food as immune system boosters. Fish can often overcome disease--as long as they are eating, AND the ich isn't progressing, you can wait and see. If they stop eating and/or it gets worse, it's probably time to act.
the beauty of the nano tank is that unlike big tank it's much easier to collect the fish....you can just put a enough water in a bucket and pull out the rock, extract the fish, then rocks/.corals back in.
ALSO---if you have time--if your fish aren't too sick yet---you need to get water from the nano into the hospital tank. Maybe pull 20% of water per day for a few days and put it in hospital, keep refilling the nano. You don't want to shock your fish into new water---try to get a bare minimum of 5 gallons from the nano into the 10g hospital before you put fish in---otherwise the stress of the move can make it worse.
--fwiw---I have had one tang with popeye and one clown with ich---they both managed to get better in the displays without extraction.
stephen, when you say treatment, what treatment? If your fish have ich, you should NOT be treating them in your display tank because the medicine (copper, most likely) will kill things in the tank like inverts. There really is no effective treatment that is safe to put in a reef tank--thus, the fish must come out.
That said, you can give your fish a few days to see if their immune systems can overcome the disease (people recommend adding garlic and additives/vitamins--selcon, I think) to the food as immune system boosters. Fish can often overcome disease--as long as they are eating, AND the ich isn't progressing, you can wait and see. If they stop eating and/or it gets worse, it's probably time to act.
the beauty of the nano tank is that unlike big tank it's much easier to collect the fish....you can just put a enough water in a bucket and pull out the rock, extract the fish, then rocks/.corals back in.
ALSO---if you have time--if your fish aren't too sick yet---you need to get water from the nano into the hospital tank. Maybe pull 20% of water per day for a few days and put it in hospital, keep refilling the nano. You don't want to shock your fish into new water---try to get a bare minimum of 5 gallons from the nano into the 10g hospital before you put fish in---otherwise the stress of the move can make it worse.
--fwiw---I have had one tang with popeye and one clown with ich---they both managed to get better in the displays without extraction.
stephen sykes
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i've got a good friend that owns a shop not too far from here. the treatment comes in tablet form and is totally reef safe. i've known him for years and he's been in the game a long long time. have you ever heard of the tablet treatments?
Doglover_50
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Stephen, I'd suggest going to the fish disease treatment room on RC and asking your questions there.
My understanding is that all of the medications that effectively treat parasites (ich) such as copper cause reef/invert damage.
My understanding is that all of the medications that effectively treat parasites (ich) such as copper cause reef/invert damage.
stephen sykes
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will do. thanks.
