I Need Help Not Sure What To Do Here...

marine7198

marine7198

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hello everyone....ok here goes...
im new to saltwater tanks and about 2 months ago i got a 29 gallon tank with crushed coral and live rock and let my tank cycle i now have 1 turbo mexican snail 5 blue leg crabs and 1 yellowtail damsel. ammonia and nitrites are 0 ph is 8.2 and nitrate 10. i have copepods all over 3 of my live rocks. my damsel eats mysis regularly and he is supplemented with plankton cubes. he swims around freely. but i noticed the other day he was breathing through his mouth at a faster rate. but still eating and swimming. one thing that did bother me was that he would do this twitching thing under a cave he picked out. and then wont do it anywhere else, i thought it might have been signs of ich but wasnt sure. well today he has a few white spots on his body and 1 on his fins. heres my problem. i dont have a quarantine tank but will be getting one very soon and setting it up. any suggestions? ill try to get some pics and post them up
 
marine7198

marine7198

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oh yea im definatly getting the QT tank, i want to do hyposalinity but i cant becuase of the inverts. i have some quick cure ich med but im afraid to use it in my main tank. wont it kill off all the good bacteria and copepods and inverts?
 
jag2232

jag2232

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Originally Posted by marine7198
http:///forum/post/2866615
oh yea im definatly getting the QT tank, i want to do hyposalinity but i cant becuase of the inverts. i have some quick cure ich med but im afraid to use it in my main tank. wont it kill off all the good bacteria and copepods and inverts?

I don't know if it'll do that, but I tried one of the "reef safe" ich cures once and all it did was put a lot of crap in my tank that I didn't want in it and didn't help my problem.
 
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