Lighting question

vivioo7

vivioo7

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I think my clowns are starting to get ich, they are the only fish in my tank. Besides them i have an anemone cleaner shrimp snails and hermit crabs. my water tested fine and temperature is good. the only thing i can think of that might be bothering them is my lighting. the sun comes up at 7 and the tank gets sunlight for about 20 minutes but the room is sunlit the whole day. my lights come on at 3 and turn off at 11 so the fish are really only getting 8 hours of true darkness. is this a problem?
 
lion_crazz

lion_crazz

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No, that is fine.
Why do you think something is bothering the clowns?
Ich is a parasite. You introduced it to the aquarium.
Do you own a quarantine tank? The ich will need to be treated outside of your tank (with copper or hyposalinity) because you have live rock and inverts and those things cannot go through copper or hyposalinity.
 
vivioo7

vivioo7

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Ive had some fish die from what i thought was ich before and i thought fish mainly get it if something is bothering them. i waited a week after the last fish died before adding these in that time i got my temperature figured out because it was fluctuating too much. I have a 10g freshwater tank i can convert to a QT but i thought i was just doing something wrong which is why they kept getting sick.
 
lion_crazz

lion_crazz

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You are doing something wrong in not quarantining the fish originally. Stress does not cause ich. It is either there or not. This is the purpose of a quarantine tank - to see if ich is there before you put them in your display.
A tank must be left without fish for 6 weeks before ich fully dies.
 
lion_crazz

lion_crazz

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When you first buy a fish and you quarantine it, you keep it in the quarantine tank for 4 weeks to make sure it has no parasites, bacterial infections, viral infections, etc.
After the 4 weeks, you can move it to your display with no worries of giving your display problems.
 
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