carshark
Active Member
Originally Posted by unleashed
to battle your ph and low cal are you adding buffers? and suppliments.I maintained a 125 agressive tank for 3 1/2 yrs streight with ph of 8.2 without buffers of any sort.last time i moved the tank I did a 50%water change my ph went way down i ended up adding ph buffer now tank is up and running to normal and thriving.ps I use seachem ph 8.3 buffer
and reef advantage calcium w/stontium and magnezium added.ur ph being low aslo will kill your inverts. to battle the ich i def say invest in a few cleaner shrimp even a cleaner wrasse if you can get one.still waiting for lfs to get one for me.I rescently lost a powder blue to ich but the shrimp took care of the rest of the tank.after this loss i went out and baught a uv sterolizer.
well a couple of things here, one is the cleaner shrimp will only mask the problem, it may have won the battle on your fish but its still in your tank. whether or not your fish stay healthy enough to keep it from showing is a whole other story. from all of my research i have found, and the countless hours and hours of reading, ive come up with two solutions(sure fire ways to get rid of it for good) 1.) remove all fish for 6-8 weeks and let the parasite die off, no host no life!. not in my opinion the most asthetic solution. 2.) hyposalinity. this will kill the parasite and since i am not overstocked, i can deal without a cleaner crew for 3-4 weeks. the coral banded shrimp is heading to my buddies LFS and he can sell him off for letting me use his refractometer, until mine arrives next week. my cleanup crew is then going to make its way to my QT which is not ready for fish but will host the cleaners just fine! this has been one amazing learning experience and im glad i got it over with now while i only have minimal money invested, when i say minimal, look at comparison to some of the set ups you see around this site. to follow up on the cleaner shrimp issue, yes i intend to get those guys instead, it was just that the coral banded was given to me and he is one awesome specimen. he is about 6 inches not including antennae. hes a big dude! but he will go away to make way for a couple cleaner shrimp in 3-4 weeks. as far as the cleaner wrasse, it wontbe neccessary because i want to have more exciting fish in there and my tank will be clean from there on out and im not really concerned about getting him. my QT will be running and all additions will be there before they hit my tank for 3-4 weeks. so there i can do all sorts of other treatments, effectively, timely, and precisely. thanks to everyone for their input and it is much much appreciated!!!!
to battle your ph and low cal are you adding buffers? and suppliments.I maintained a 125 agressive tank for 3 1/2 yrs streight with ph of 8.2 without buffers of any sort.last time i moved the tank I did a 50%water change my ph went way down i ended up adding ph buffer now tank is up and running to normal and thriving.ps I use seachem ph 8.3 buffer
and reef advantage calcium w/stontium and magnezium added.ur ph being low aslo will kill your inverts. to battle the ich i def say invest in a few cleaner shrimp even a cleaner wrasse if you can get one.still waiting for lfs to get one for me.I rescently lost a powder blue to ich but the shrimp took care of the rest of the tank.after this loss i went out and baught a uv sterolizer.
well a couple of things here, one is the cleaner shrimp will only mask the problem, it may have won the battle on your fish but its still in your tank. whether or not your fish stay healthy enough to keep it from showing is a whole other story. from all of my research i have found, and the countless hours and hours of reading, ive come up with two solutions(sure fire ways to get rid of it for good) 1.) remove all fish for 6-8 weeks and let the parasite die off, no host no life!. not in my opinion the most asthetic solution. 2.) hyposalinity. this will kill the parasite and since i am not overstocked, i can deal without a cleaner crew for 3-4 weeks. the coral banded shrimp is heading to my buddies LFS and he can sell him off for letting me use his refractometer, until mine arrives next week. my cleanup crew is then going to make its way to my QT which is not ready for fish but will host the cleaners just fine! this has been one amazing learning experience and im glad i got it over with now while i only have minimal money invested, when i say minimal, look at comparison to some of the set ups you see around this site. to follow up on the cleaner shrimp issue, yes i intend to get those guys instead, it was just that the coral banded was given to me and he is one awesome specimen. he is about 6 inches not including antennae. hes a big dude! but he will go away to make way for a couple cleaner shrimp in 3-4 weeks. as far as the cleaner wrasse, it wontbe neccessary because i want to have more exciting fish in there and my tank will be clean from there on out and im not really concerned about getting him. my QT will be running and all additions will be there before they hit my tank for 3-4 weeks. so there i can do all sorts of other treatments, effectively, timely, and precisely. thanks to everyone for their input and it is much much appreciated!!!!
