Ya'll Give Bad Ju Ju

lil.guppy

lil.guppy

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Well my fish are dropping like flies. I lost my powder blue tang, clown fish, purple dottyback, manderin and I might possibly loose my yellow belly hippo just maybe.
All too..........ICK! Whats worse is the yellow belly is the one that brought it and hes the one that is getting better over time and he is much smaller then all the ones that died. Its crazy!
So I basically lost $134 in fish with a snap of the finger.

Well ya'll got your wish I dont have the powder blue anymore.

On a lighter note this means that is less fish I have to transport when I move

Im scarred of tangs now
 
jackri

jackri

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I'm always VERY nervous bringing in new fish to my systems. First and foremost I like to know they are eating -- took my yellow belly blue hippo a full 3 weeks to eat anything besides algae sheets and that took close to a week.
Second of course is ick -- something I NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER want to battle again and unfortunately I'm about to the point to say the hobby of keeping saltwater fish would be lost entirely to me without a QT tank. IMO you just simply can't treat a tank of fish/corals/inverts properly and you can't catch them or QT the sick fish without added stress.
I wish the best of luck with your remaining fish and good luck!
 
crypt keeper

crypt keeper

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Its called QT. They are fast cheap and simple. They save you money and heart ache. I qt all my fish. I havent lost any of my main fish since setting one up. Some fish come in they die. Thats is the way it is in this hobby. I delt with the same issue you have delt with. Killed my entire tank. You now need to yank all your fish and let your main tank seit fishless for about two months. Lower the salinity if you would like but take out all inverts.
 
deejeff442

deejeff442

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your water must be bad also because mandarins typically dont get ich.
one of the few fish that dont need to be in a qt .
 
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