Need help fast!

[levinjac]

i cant do a reef either it will always be fish only now but i still need snails it says carbon will get rid of it my pad is carbon so if i take it out while i treat for 4 weeks then put it back in wont it rid it of my system with in a week or two

 

[levinjac]

i mean a new one

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/380990/need-help-fast/40#post_3317045
wont it rid it of my system with in a week or two
Probably not.....that is a big chance to take.....I would not take it myself.....
You can do hypo for FREE....just change out your SW with fresh ro.....slowly lowering the salinity.....

 

[btldreef]

Carbon does not get rid of ich. It will pick some of it out of the water column, but it does not get rid of it from the fish, or the LR.

 

[btldreef]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Flower http:///forum/thread/380990/need-help-fast/20#post_3316915

Oh man I am so sorry to hear about this, I know your going nuts about it. I am so tramatized about getting new fish...or adding anything new to my system including rock. Corals have freaky bugs and nasty snails...Poor meowzer..with her new zoa...it's scary.
It's making me crazy! I have no idea how it got into my system. I dip all corals, QT all fish and I haven't added any new inverts with the exception of two harlequin shrimp in forever. There is no way for my to QT as many fish as I have in this tank until my house is ready and I can set up the 180. Just not what I need right now while I'm also dealing with a stubborn filefish.

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by BTLDreef http:///forum/thread/380990/need-help-fast/40#post_3317141
Carbon does not get rid of ich. It will pick some of it out of the water column, but it does not get rid of it from the fish, or the LR.
I thought he was referring to removing the copper

 

[btldreef]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/380990/need-help-fast/40#post_3317149
I thought he was referring to removing the copper

Ahh, I misread. Well, it will remove some copper, but not all of it. Copper is notorious for seeping into the silicone seems.

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by BTLDreef http:///forum/thread/380990/need-help-fast/40#post_3317157
Ahh, I misread. Well, it will remove some copper, but not all of it. Copper is notorious for seeping into the silicone seems.
YUP....I have been trying to tell him this....

 

[btldreef]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/380990/need-help-fast/40#post_3317163
YUP....I have been trying to tell him this....

You can lead a horse to water.....

 

[gemmy]

He is young and at the mercy of his parents.

I do think the hypo would be less expensive in the long run considering all the long term effects it will have.

 

[btldreef]

An idea....
Dump the copper treatment down the toilet and tell daddy that you treated the tank. The fish obviously won't get better, so THEN you can try to convince dad that copper doesn't work and you need to hypo....

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gemmy http:///forum/thread/380990/need-help-fast/40#post_3317175
He is young and at the mercy of his parents.

I do think the hypo would be less expensive in the long run considering all the long term effects it will have.
maybe he should have them read some of this stuff...IDK....I just hate to see him use the copper and then have other issues later

 

[gemmy]

I have seen first hand what it will do to a freshwater system, and I can only imagine what it will do to a saltwater tank. Copper leaches into fish system where I work and we have to take extra steps to keep the snails, plecos, loaches, shrimp, bala sharks and more alive.

 

[levinjac]

ok ill read my dad some post im sorry im just trying to save a fish the easiest way i cant do this i just cant my parents are divorced im trying to tell you that my dad would do it but he cant go to my moms house

 

[meowzer]

LEV....you don't need help to do the hypo.....just fresh ro.....I don't unersatnd why that is so hard, or why you need help.....take out some sw....put in fresh.....test until you get the levels down
then after 4-6 weeks....you add top off with salt...abd slowly raise the levels back up

 

[levinjac]

oh i just thought it would be harder than that it seams easy when you explain it i also have ph buffer like in the thing so YAY hoe frecuently do i do it

 

[meowzer]

Quote:
Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/380990/need-help-fast/40#post_3317460
oh i just thought it would be harder than that it seams easy when you explain it i also have ph buffer like in the thing so YAY hoe frecuently do i do it
I'm not 100% on the frequency....did you read the hyposalinity threads in the disease section? I think if you do the changes over a couple of days you should be ok....

 

[levinjac]

how big again sorry

 

[meowzer]

SIGHHHHHH.....have you done anything?????
do a few gallons each day to brng it down to 1.009

 

[levinjac]

Sorry thanks