Antilag
December 13th, 2003, 03:38 PM
I bought 2 clowns (ocelarus) on thursday evening from 2 different LFS and did a beginner mistake: did'nt quarantine them.
Friday evening I realized that the clown that came from Big Al's had the famous Ich.
Since I'm new at this, I had to do some research and it seems the only 2 remedies are either Hyposalinity http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/hyposalinity.html or copper treatment. and that the fresh water dip only help the fish to get rid of the Ich temporarly.
Both meant that I had to get a quarantine tank. So I bought a 20 gallon tank, heater and an aquaclear filter for 60$ at the local LFS and transfered some of the water of the main tank to put the fish in. I'm going for the hyposalinity treatment. I put both Clowns even though only on had the symptoms. They are always together so I did,nt want to take the chance. I have also a yellow tang that I put in the 20 gallon tank. I know that it requires a big tank, but for the length of the treatment (around 4 weeks), will it be ok??
I just hope that did'nt screw up with the treatment process. The only thing appart form the fact that I did'nt have a tank set up for this is that I don't have a refractometer to monitor the density precisly.
Anything you guys think I might have missed?
I bought some base rock for them to hide and feel a little bit more secured.
Thanks,
Michel
I forgot to mention that I have a cleaner schrimp in the main tank. It did'nt seem that interested in cleaning the fish in the short 24 hours that the clown displayed the Itch problem.
Friday evening I realized that the clown that came from Big Al's had the famous Ich.
Since I'm new at this, I had to do some research and it seems the only 2 remedies are either Hyposalinity http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/hyposalinity.html or copper treatment. and that the fresh water dip only help the fish to get rid of the Ich temporarly.
Both meant that I had to get a quarantine tank. So I bought a 20 gallon tank, heater and an aquaclear filter for 60$ at the local LFS and transfered some of the water of the main tank to put the fish in. I'm going for the hyposalinity treatment. I put both Clowns even though only on had the symptoms. They are always together so I did,nt want to take the chance. I have also a yellow tang that I put in the 20 gallon tank. I know that it requires a big tank, but for the length of the treatment (around 4 weeks), will it be ok??
I just hope that did'nt screw up with the treatment process. The only thing appart form the fact that I did'nt have a tank set up for this is that I don't have a refractometer to monitor the density precisly.
Anything you guys think I might have missed?
I bought some base rock for them to hide and feel a little bit more secured.
Thanks,
Michel
I forgot to mention that I have a cleaner schrimp in the main tank. It did'nt seem that interested in cleaning the fish in the short 24 hours that the clown displayed the Itch problem.