20g long stocking
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If you add the extra three Harlequins you will need to be regular about water changes and have good filtration. Sounds like a nice tank.
Thanks. I think the harlies have introduced ICH into my tank though...**** it. I went back to the LFS to pick up 3 more to complete the school...and they said that they discovered ich in the tank on Wednesday. I bought the initial 5 harlies on the Saturday prior to that Wednesday...and I think I see a single white spot on three of the harlies. I am concerned. I quarantined one of them in a makeshift 2 gallon tank that I had that was spare (not ideal for quarantine...but I want to try to prevent the spreading of it...but I think it's too late...)
The one that I quarantined has a pretty prominent white spot right next to its eye...I don't know if it's just an injury though. The other two have what seems to be a white spot in the same exact position, dead center on their lower lip...but I am hoping that it's just the way they are with a white scale or something there...but that's really just wishful thinking, I think. I mean, I added them less than a week ago (6 days) so I'm hoping that I caught the only Trophont that made it into my large tank.
What do you think, should I also quarantine the other two Harlies with the white thing on their lip? I mean, what are the chances that its in the same EXACT position on both fish?
And the reason that I didn't quarantine them initially is because I didn't have a quarantine tank set up/cycled for them. **** it...what have I done. And I'm weary about treating the main tank because I have live plants.
I think I'll just quarantine all of the harlies. All five of them. It will be cramped in that 2 gallon...but they're schooling fish so hopefully they'll be okay...
Argh.
The one that I quarantined has a pretty prominent white spot right next to its eye...I don't know if it's just an injury though. The other two have what seems to be a white spot in the same exact position, dead center on their lower lip...but I am hoping that it's just the way they are with a white scale or something there...but that's really just wishful thinking, I think. I mean, I added them less than a week ago (6 days) so I'm hoping that I caught the only Trophont that made it into my large tank.
What do you think, should I also quarantine the other two Harlies with the white thing on their lip? I mean, what are the chances that its in the same EXACT position on both fish?
And the reason that I didn't quarantine them initially is because I didn't have a quarantine tank set up/cycled for them. **** it...what have I done. And I'm weary about treating the main tank because I have live plants.
I think I'll just quarantine all of the harlies. All five of them. It will be cramped in that 2 gallon...but they're schooling fish so hopefully they'll be okay...
Argh.
If there's Ich in the tank, you'll have to treat the entire tank regardless of how many fish you see it on. The life cycle of Ich includes cysts that attach to substrate, plants, etc. and a free swimming stage. You only see them on the fish at the end of the cycle (which is the beginning of the next).
