Setting up new tank. Going to QT for ich with low salinity. Need advice plz

[pciscott]

Wayne your dedication to your fish and there health is unmatched, but even with his protocol you did have ick make its way into your display at one time. I know you thought maybe the tank sitter put hands in quarantine and then put in display. I only bring this up because if you truly want to have a ick free tank you have to never cross contaminate, add corals that have not gone through a 3 month quarantine protocol or even just put your hand from 1 tank to the other. Pretty tough unless you are very dedicated, and that kind of dedication can push you out of the hobby do to the time involved. Ick gets the upper hand when you have stress, if you take good care of planning your fish list, remove bullies, and keep your water quality good ick is not a problem. I also agree there are way worse disease like Brook or Velvet, these will wipe out a tank. The Formalin dip is to get rid of flukes and other nasties, the fish did not seem to mind it much so when I dropped TTM, I kept this as a minimum for my protocol. I do keep fish for 90 days in my 90 Quarantine mini display just to get them acclimated to humans and eating what I feed. Fat and Healthy or I give them to Phil

 

[55ocin]

I don't believe 1.030-1.032 is low salinity. That sounds pretty high. Am I missing something??

Sorry, what I'm saying is, I'm not doing hypo, instead I keep my salinity high in my QT because I think low salinity gives more stress to the fish. Again, this is my experience

 

[bblumberg]

Ich and QT

Ich and QT

Anyone use chloroquine phosphate? I read that it is very effective against ich, velvet and other nasties without the negative effects of copper. I bought some a few months ago to keep in reserve should I need it but have not needed it so far.

 

[murphreef]

Wayne your dedication to your fish and there health is unmatched, but even with his protocol you did have ick make its way into your display at one time. I know you thought maybe the tank sitter put hands in quarantine and then put in display. I only bring this up because if you truly want to have a ick free tank you have to never cross contaminate, add corals that have not gone through a 3 month quarantine protocol or even just put your hand from 1 tank to the other. Pretty tough unless you are very dedicated, and that kind of dedication can push you out of the hobby do to the time involved. Ick gets the upper hand when you have stress, if you take good care of planning your fish list, remove bullies, and keep your water quality good ick is not a problem. I also agree there are way worse disease like Brook or Velvet, these will wipe out a tank. The Formalin dip is to get rid of flukes and other nasties, the fish did not seem to mind it much so when I dropped TTM, I kept this as a minimum for my protocol. I do keep fish for 90 days in my 90 Quarantine mini display just to get them acclimated to humans and eating what I feed. Fat and Healthy or I give them to Phil

Totally agree with this. Keeping such crazy high protocol to prevent ick will definitely take the fun out of this hobby.

Best way to prevent is as mentioned above plan for appropriate fish, remove bullies, feed correctly and keep your water good. I have ran multiple tanks and never had any ick issues and have never QT'd anything.

Now getting SPS bugs is a different story lol