guppy slayer
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I'm posting this in the New Hobbyist forum because I kinda think that no matter how long that I'm in the hobby, that I will always be new... there is always something new we can learn. Even though I have given my opinion on things in the short time I have visited this site I still continue to learn alot.
But anyway my avatar is a pic of the puffer I kept. I remember a post I responded to that someone was asking about making a puffer puff, and I thought it was a bad idea(to MAKE a puffer puff).
But this was Puffy the Guppy Slayer. I had many names for him, Puffy for short, Puff daddy, P diddy, etc... I use to sing Puff the magic dragon to him . I thought it was funny at the time.
I lost him just over a week ago 09/08/03. He was the best fish I had in the tank, the original. It was his tank.
He was survived by a Yellow tang, a Sail fin and a Red Cardinal still in the tank now(I know, I've been told before, 45 too small).
I was battling ICH for a good 2 weeks. The puffer looked like he was covered in cotton. The 2 tangs got a little of it to including black ICH but the Puffer had it the worst. I medicated and medicated with copper(I have a FO). At one point I think I over medicated. I swiched to Malachite Green but still lost the fish .
I have been keeping a close eye on the tank and have seen no trace of if ICH since.
I do my 10% water changes every saturday and in between med's I did one and used charcoal to take out the copper (the puffer perked up a little). And now for 2 weeks I will put med's in at half dose, already did it once, one more to go just to make sure its gone.
I don't want to say what brought on the sickness...It could have been the live guppies I fed, or the fact that I used my LFS's diatom filter a few weeks before... but I would have to go with choice C... over population??
What do you think?
I do wish the little guy was still around but it's hard to play GOD sometimes.
Lesson learned in the worst way.
Frank
But anyway my avatar is a pic of the puffer I kept. I remember a post I responded to that someone was asking about making a puffer puff, and I thought it was a bad idea(to MAKE a puffer puff).
But this was Puffy the Guppy Slayer. I had many names for him, Puffy for short, Puff daddy, P diddy, etc... I use to sing Puff the magic dragon to him . I thought it was funny at the time.
I lost him just over a week ago 09/08/03. He was the best fish I had in the tank, the original. It was his tank.
He was survived by a Yellow tang, a Sail fin and a Red Cardinal still in the tank now(I know, I've been told before, 45 too small).
I was battling ICH for a good 2 weeks. The puffer looked like he was covered in cotton. The 2 tangs got a little of it to including black ICH but the Puffer had it the worst. I medicated and medicated with copper(I have a FO). At one point I think I over medicated. I swiched to Malachite Green but still lost the fish .
I have been keeping a close eye on the tank and have seen no trace of if ICH since.
I do my 10% water changes every saturday and in between med's I did one and used charcoal to take out the copper (the puffer perked up a little). And now for 2 weeks I will put med's in at half dose, already did it once, one more to go just to make sure its gone.
I don't want to say what brought on the sickness...It could have been the live guppies I fed, or the fact that I used my LFS's diatom filter a few weeks before... but I would have to go with choice C... over population??
What do you think?
I do wish the little guy was still around but it's hard to play GOD sometimes.
Lesson learned in the worst way.
Frank