ddaddy
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Here's the situation:
I have a 75 gal FOWLR tank that I'm planning on converting into a reef tank and a 30 gal reef tank that I'm planning on dismantling because of costs. The 75 has a powder blue tang and a purple pseudo. The reef only has a mandarin. I wanna take everything from the reef to the 75.
Here's the problem:
I'm 100% positive that the 75 is disease free. I had a problem with ich on my pbt for a long time. Finally I quarantined the pbt and pseudo in copper and left the 75 fishless for 4 weeks. That's the first time I ever followed completely through on an ich treatment and can you believe it it actually worked! After about 3 weeks I thought the pbt would die but he managed to pull through. Anyway as far as the reef goes I'm not sure if it's ich free. I had ich in it once upon a time but my mandarin has shown no signs of it and it's been about 2 months. If it were any other fish than a mandarin I would put him in copper just to be safe and wait 4 weeks like before, but my mandarin only eats copepods and they won't survive in copper. I thought the safest thing to do would be to put the mandarin in a 30 gal quarantine w/out any treatments and wait four weeks to put the inverts in the 75. The only reason why I'm so freaked out about quarantined things is I know from experience that if there's even a minute amount of ich that finds it's way near the tang he'll come down with it. Then I'll be back up #$*& creek! So would that be the best thing to do? Then just keep an eye on the mandarin a little longer.
I have a 75 gal FOWLR tank that I'm planning on converting into a reef tank and a 30 gal reef tank that I'm planning on dismantling because of costs. The 75 has a powder blue tang and a purple pseudo. The reef only has a mandarin. I wanna take everything from the reef to the 75.
Here's the problem:
I'm 100% positive that the 75 is disease free. I had a problem with ich on my pbt for a long time. Finally I quarantined the pbt and pseudo in copper and left the 75 fishless for 4 weeks. That's the first time I ever followed completely through on an ich treatment and can you believe it it actually worked! After about 3 weeks I thought the pbt would die but he managed to pull through. Anyway as far as the reef goes I'm not sure if it's ich free. I had ich in it once upon a time but my mandarin has shown no signs of it and it's been about 2 months. If it were any other fish than a mandarin I would put him in copper just to be safe and wait 4 weeks like before, but my mandarin only eats copepods and they won't survive in copper. I thought the safest thing to do would be to put the mandarin in a 30 gal quarantine w/out any treatments and wait four weeks to put the inverts in the 75. The only reason why I'm so freaked out about quarantined things is I know from experience that if there's even a minute amount of ich that finds it's way near the tang he'll come down with it. Then I'll be back up #$*& creek! So would that be the best thing to do? Then just keep an eye on the mandarin a little longer.
