andymi
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Terry,
I have a FOWLR tank that currently has some parasites in it. (Ich). The adult emporer angel and the stars and stripes puffer are the only two with the parasites. I also have 6 chromis and 1 coral beauty in the same tank (150 gallon). The last two days I have been feeding the fish krill soaked in McCormicks Garlic Juice. I have not seen a big difference. In order to reduce the stress of the fish and such I lowered the salinity last night from 1.024 to 1.020. I do have two cleaner shrimp, hermits, snails etc in this tank as well as live rock. So far everything is living together great and the cleaners have been trying to pick some parasites off the puffer and they are keeping the angel looking pretty good. What is the lowest salinity I could take this tank down to with the inhabitants, I know puffers can go pretty low (1.009 or so), but what about the angels and chromis? Is that low of salinity going to damage the live rock? Also how long does it typically tank to see improvements with the garlic treatment? I am trying to be patient, the puffer is the worst of them all and doesnt seem to be getting worse, if anything he is status quo or a little better. What else can I do before I go and stress them out more and put them in a quarantine tank. Everyone is still eating normal and I just added a skimmer to this tank as well. I might add UV later.
Also...in my reef tank I have a yellow tang with some black spots (looks like black ich), there are cleaner shrimp in there as well. Will they pick those off? He seems to go from 1 spot to many , then back down again. Just curious as to the best coarse of action to give least stress to the fish. Everyone else in the reef tank is fine including a hippo tang and a couple of clowns.
Thanks.
Andy
I have a FOWLR tank that currently has some parasites in it. (Ich). The adult emporer angel and the stars and stripes puffer are the only two with the parasites. I also have 6 chromis and 1 coral beauty in the same tank (150 gallon). The last two days I have been feeding the fish krill soaked in McCormicks Garlic Juice. I have not seen a big difference. In order to reduce the stress of the fish and such I lowered the salinity last night from 1.024 to 1.020. I do have two cleaner shrimp, hermits, snails etc in this tank as well as live rock. So far everything is living together great and the cleaners have been trying to pick some parasites off the puffer and they are keeping the angel looking pretty good. What is the lowest salinity I could take this tank down to with the inhabitants, I know puffers can go pretty low (1.009 or so), but what about the angels and chromis? Is that low of salinity going to damage the live rock? Also how long does it typically tank to see improvements with the garlic treatment? I am trying to be patient, the puffer is the worst of them all and doesnt seem to be getting worse, if anything he is status quo or a little better. What else can I do before I go and stress them out more and put them in a quarantine tank. Everyone is still eating normal and I just added a skimmer to this tank as well. I might add UV later.
Also...in my reef tank I have a yellow tang with some black spots (looks like black ich), there are cleaner shrimp in there as well. Will they pick those off? He seems to go from 1 spot to many , then back down again. Just curious as to the best coarse of action to give least stress to the fish. Everyone else in the reef tank is fine including a hippo tang and a couple of clowns.
Thanks.
Andy
