I used the stuff by blue life and it worked great. Just get it over with and get you tank clean.. THE longer you wait the more your corals will suffer. I have snails, crabs, SPS, LPS, soft corals, clams, worms, mushrooms and had no ill effects.
I am sure I can see them and that it is the ick cysts. I lost no fish thank God.
They started out by the hundreds. And have slowly tapered off to only a few.
I wish I had the equipment to take a picture because I believe many people end up suffering this same fate by taking chances and not Qt.
A freshwater dip will not always rid all parasites from the fish. using a QT guarantees you can find and treat all infections before contaminatiing your whole tank. If you want the short route for QT you could treat the fish with a wide variety of treatments for the recomended time for each...
I have a 75 gallon Hexagon shaped tank and the canopy is only 7 inches tall from the inside. Can a 24 " metal halide retrofit kit running 250 watts and with two PC lamps be installed inside? This would leave the lights 3 inches off the top of the tank. The back panel is removed and I would...
The digital guage always reads correct in the salinity solution . I can take the bottle up stairs and check it and it is always dead on. Maybe If I take water samples from both tanks and get them at the same temp I could verify the auto temp function was working.
So the short story is that my main tank reads 33 and my refugium reads 36 for salinity. I am using a digi-lab digital guage that measures temp, salinity and specific gravity. I have checked the guage with the test solution and it is good. It also auto adjusts for tempurature.
The long...