LOL, thanks. It was beautiful but the island was very touristy. I rented a motor scooter and traveled the entire island, stopping at different beaches to cool off along the way. I would go there again but with less expectation of experiencing a different culture.I'm going to go out on a limb and say these aren't pictures of your tank... right? LOL!
Awesome pictures of natural habitat.
Thank you so much!Those pics are awesome! Hope you had fun. And I love your tats!
It's a floating hydrometer. I use kati/ani which gets comparable results to RODI, however can cause pH issues. It just hasn't been doing the trick since I moved...4 blocks from where I was before, LOL.Once you get your RO/DI set up, you'll wonder how you ever got along with out it! LOL!
+1I think he got a bobber style hydrometer which are very accurate if you know how to use them.
The Trophonts (spots on fish) can stay up to a week before dropping off. They then go into the reproductive stage (Tomonts) which can last up to 3 weeks before they become free-swimming (Tomites) and looking for a host. It depends on how long they'd been in the QT, and at what stage the Ick was at as to whether the PBT became infected or not. If you haven't been treating the QT for Ick, there's a good chance that it may develop a case of it... if it was indeed Ick. Fingers crossed...Also, the naso died in QT. The PBT is fine but the Naso was showing signs of what I thought was ich. I think it's weird if the Naso had ich and the PBT showed zero signs, though.
Thanks for the info. I've had these fish in QT for literally months. Several weeks ago I was raising the salinity from hypo b/c the fish showed no signs of ich for 4-6 weeks. The next day the naso started getting spots again. The anthias that I had in there also started getting spots, but they weren't fine, salt-like spots. I treated several times with prazi pro and kept the tank at hypo. Over the last few weeks that the tank has been back to hypo (or what I thought was hypo) the PBT showed zero spots while the other fish died off. Also, I should add, no signs of trauma and never saw the PBT have a go at the other fish.The Trophonts (spots on fish) can stay up to a week before dropping off. They then go into the reproductive stage (Tomonts) which can last up to 3 weeks before they become free-swimming (Tomites) and looking for a host. It depends on how long they'd been in the QT, and at what stage the Ick was at as to whether the PBT became infected or not. If you haven't been treating the QT for Ick, there's a good chance that it may develop a case of it... if it was indeed Ick. Fingers crossed...
It's so strange. I would think that if any of the fish I had in QT were going to show signs of anything, it would have been the PBT.It is weird that the PB was not infected. It seems that if any of the fish were to be infected it would be the PB first. I know you had them in QT together for a long time in hypo. Longer, I think, than my two. Makes me wonder if it was something else just no clue what it could be.