better safe than sorry. if even one parasite is missed you could end up having to treat the tank again and risk creating a resistant strain...though i think that takes generations...
ich on my clowns
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at 80f i'd keep up the treatment for at least a week after ALL spots are gone. hillstream tanks are cooler so the life cycle is longer. two weeks is wise.
better safe than sorry. if even one parasite is missed you could end up having to treat the tank again and risk creating a resistant strain...though i think that takes generations...
better safe than sorry. if even one parasite is missed you could end up having to treat the tank again and risk creating a resistant strain...though i think that takes generations...
Toothpik?
You bought a new fish and added it to a tank in the middle of treatment?
You may also have bought your fish another round of treatment that they won't need but the new guy will. And who knows what other goodies the new guy brings to share with your tank.
Extremely unwise, imo.
You may luck out and he won't get ich. You may luck out and he won't 'share' any nasties with your soon to be healthy fish.
then again - you may not.
patience is a virtue. i wish you well.
You bought a new fish and added it to a tank in the middle of treatment?
You may also have bought your fish another round of treatment that they won't need but the new guy will. And who knows what other goodies the new guy brings to share with your tank.
Extremely unwise, imo.
You may luck out and he won't get ich. You may luck out and he won't 'share' any nasties with your soon to be healthy fish.
then again - you may not.
patience is a virtue. i wish you well.
). And many of us still will succumb to that extraordinary fish find on spur of the moment. Nevertheless, it's something to avoid like the plague - lest you end up with one in your tank!Much truth to what Shari said. I lost about 50 clown loaches in my learning process. My 1st few years into it I was clueless about water parameters and quarantining. Sometimes I'd take a bag full of fish home and they'd all die soon after I tried acclimating them. If I was lucky they'd live long enough so that they could get ich and die from that instead.
After all the failures, I learned as much as could about water chemistry and disease prevention.
I now realize that any newly purchased fish may be in a critical stress condition which will compromise it's ability to acclimate to a different water condition and to ward off diseases. Stress can be contagious. A new fish will give emotional stress to the current residence of a fish tank if quarantining is skipped.
Like I said, I've lost many fish in trying to acclimate them. A simple 20 minute acclimation where you float the bag and add a cup of water every 5 minutes doesn't always work. Slower drip acclimations don't always work either.
What I've learned is that instead of trying to acclimate the new fish to my water conditions is that I must match the water chemistry that they are currently in. What I'd do now is test the bag water's kh, gh, tds, and ph., then change the water chemistry in my quarantine tank to match that of the bag water. After this is done, then I can acclimate the new fish with one of the acclimation methods.
Quarantining and disease prevention is the next challenge, which gets tougher the more fish you have and each time you add new fish. It's probably best to stock the main tank once then be done with it. This is not ideal though. That is why quarantining must be very strict.
You'll find that you'll need separate equipment, like water buckets, fish nets, and water siphons for the quarantine tank you have because you don't want to cross contaminate any pathogens with the main tank.
Prophylactic treatments for the most common parasites is another thing you'll want to consider when new fish are quarantined.
So Toothpick, do you have anything in the 90 gallon tank yet? Do you have any pictures of your fish and tanks?
After all the failures, I learned as much as could about water chemistry and disease prevention.
I now realize that any newly purchased fish may be in a critical stress condition which will compromise it's ability to acclimate to a different water condition and to ward off diseases. Stress can be contagious. A new fish will give emotional stress to the current residence of a fish tank if quarantining is skipped.
Like I said, I've lost many fish in trying to acclimate them. A simple 20 minute acclimation where you float the bag and add a cup of water every 5 minutes doesn't always work. Slower drip acclimations don't always work either.
What I've learned is that instead of trying to acclimate the new fish to my water conditions is that I must match the water chemistry that they are currently in. What I'd do now is test the bag water's kh, gh, tds, and ph., then change the water chemistry in my quarantine tank to match that of the bag water. After this is done, then I can acclimate the new fish with one of the acclimation methods.
Quarantining and disease prevention is the next challenge, which gets tougher the more fish you have and each time you add new fish. It's probably best to stock the main tank once then be done with it. This is not ideal though. That is why quarantining must be very strict.
You'll find that you'll need separate equipment, like water buckets, fish nets, and water siphons for the quarantine tank you have because you don't want to cross contaminate any pathogens with the main tank.
Prophylactic treatments for the most common parasites is another thing you'll want to consider when new fish are quarantined.
So Toothpick, do you have anything in the 90 gallon tank yet? Do you have any pictures of your fish and tanks?
i have nothing in the tank right now...im doing a fishless cycle...and no no pics im trying to find a camera...my mom hid it somewhere lol im still living with my parents bc im still in high school just in case you were wondering
currently-90gallon-5 rummy nose tetra,9 clown loach,3 rainbow fish, and soon 10-15 cardinal tetra.
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