al mc
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Originally Posted by sepulatian
How do you catch the fish though? Do you net them or use a container? Being that they are going into a reef, I would keep them in for another week and be sure to do the water changes and use cuprizorb or carbon to remove all of the copper that you can. How long has it been that your display was fishless? It should be six weeks, but a little longer is better. Are your fish stressed out by the qt tank at all? It hasn't sounded like they are. As long as the water reads zero for copper then there is no need to worry when you return them to the display.
Wow..Sep slow down. While I ask many questions I do feel that I am reasonably good, improving hopefully daily, aquarist. I have several DTs at home and work. Two are large (175w100gal sump/refug, other 156 w125 gal
sump/refug) They should be ichless since they were fallow for 2 months and all fish inhabitants put through QT/hypo almost two years ago when I had a bad case of Ich when entering the hobby after years away from it.
I practice strict QT in seperate QT tanks.. in the fish one I observe and hypo everything and in the invert one I dip all corals in iodine as they go into and come out of 4 weeks of observation.
I rarely use nets/usually this plastic 'corral thing' whose brand name I can't recall. The Qt's are as stress free as I can make them with live rock, PVC and chaeto which seems to survive the hypo well with good lights.
I appreciate all your help. This thread was started when after 6 weeks of QT/ 4 weeks of it being hypo, I observed what appeared to be Ich. I decided after getting advice from you and Beth to go with copper. As I had only used copper one other time (before joining this forum) I had specific questions about it to be answered by people who I know and trust (you, Beth, some other members whose threads/replies to questions seem to indicate they know what they are doing)
Thanks to all your help the two fish, a clown and hippo tang, are thriving..eating, active, good color, no flashing behavior or labored breathing.
How do you catch the fish though? Do you net them or use a container? Being that they are going into a reef, I would keep them in for another week and be sure to do the water changes and use cuprizorb or carbon to remove all of the copper that you can. How long has it been that your display was fishless? It should be six weeks, but a little longer is better. Are your fish stressed out by the qt tank at all? It hasn't sounded like they are. As long as the water reads zero for copper then there is no need to worry when you return them to the display.
Wow..Sep slow down. While I ask many questions I do feel that I am reasonably good, improving hopefully daily, aquarist. I have several DTs at home and work. Two are large (175w100gal sump/refug, other 156 w125 gal
sump/refug) They should be ichless since they were fallow for 2 months and all fish inhabitants put through QT/hypo almost two years ago when I had a bad case of Ich when entering the hobby after years away from it.
I practice strict QT in seperate QT tanks.. in the fish one I observe and hypo everything and in the invert one I dip all corals in iodine as they go into and come out of 4 weeks of observation.
I rarely use nets/usually this plastic 'corral thing' whose brand name I can't recall. The Qt's are as stress free as I can make them with live rock, PVC and chaeto which seems to survive the hypo well with good lights.
I appreciate all your help. This thread was started when after 6 weeks of QT/ 4 weeks of it being hypo, I observed what appeared to be Ich. I decided after getting advice from you and Beth to go with copper. As I had only used copper one other time (before joining this forum) I had specific questions about it to be answered by people who I know and trust (you, Beth, some other members whose threads/replies to questions seem to indicate they know what they are doing)
Thanks to all your help the two fish, a clown and hippo tang, are thriving..eating, active, good color, no flashing behavior or labored breathing.
