My New New fish!!!YaY!!!

if a fish is sensitive to salt why would you use salt?
Probably better off with a medicine of some sort.
Why would your knowledgeable friend from Petco ( petsmart ) sell you sick fish?
 
Kuhlis and cories are both pretty salt sensitive. They are also sensitive to most of the medications commonly used for ich. This is exactly why people need to DO RESEARCH and QUARANTINE new fish before just chucking them in. The sowing part is over... Now onto the reaping. Have fun, and best of luck to your fish.
 
First of all, my friend didn't sell them sick, i had ich previously and it must have stayed in, second of all, im 14, nowhere will hire me. I have no income of any sort, so i cant buy all these tanks like you guys, im sory.
 
Ich doesn't just linger in a tank.
It's a parasite so it has to come in on new fish.
 
Leginess said:
First of all, my friend didn't sell them sick, i had ich previously and it must have stayed in, second of all, im 14, nowhere will hire me. I have no income of any sort, so i cant buy all these tanks like you guys, im sory.
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Ich can stay in the tank without you knowing and randomly pop-up when a new comer comes it. It was most likely a new fish that you've added that sparked the "ich to appear".

A 2.5g quarantine tank won't cost you much. It'll be cheaper then replacing all your fish. Quarantine from any new fish from anywhere... it'll save you the trouble.

I'm 15 so I'm not much older than you. I'm not trying to be mean but honestly, I think you need to start researching more on the fish you get. Quarantine to prevent any of your fish from getting sick.

Good luck with the ich!
 
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Alright so I don't want to go preaching to everyone but I feel this has gotten a little out of hand.

I am not going to talk about your shark, others have covered that for me.

As for the ich. Ich is a parasite that lives it's life in stages.

First stage: Free floating plankton.
Second stage: Morphs into a small creature that attaches to the inside of the gills of fish. (You cannot see it at this point and this is how it comes into most tanks)
Third stage: When a fish becomes stressed it will produce extra slime coating. This is when the paraside morphs again and forms the "spots" on the body.
Fourth and final stage: As it feeds off of the fish it forms other ich parasites inside it's own body. It will then fall off and die, releasing the next generation.

The ich cannot be treated in any stage except the first. Heat (82-84 F) will speed up the process so that they can be killed with the salt. For your fish, do as Blue2Fyre said. Add 1 tbs per 5 gallons of water. Add it slowly over a period of a few hours to make sure you don't shock your fish.

As for a QT tank, it is always good to have one but isn't absolutly needed. Personally I do not use my QT but I do have one on hand. The reason that I don't use it is because I get my fish from a trusted Mom and Pop shop. Petsmart and Petco are companies that........ Well maybe I shouldn't say it that way...... Let's just say they aren't exactly all that concerned with the fish after (or even while they are in) the shop.

Good luck and have fun with your fish tank!
 
Alec2cool said:
It seems that many of you consider your fish as you would a human. Thats too much. Humans are more important, fish are secondary.
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:shakehead:

I guess you are "2cool" to understand that your posting onto a site FILLED with devoted people who love their pets more than ANYTHING. I hope that a large extraterrestrial being finds you insignifigant one day.

Alec2cool said:
User_name, most of my fish are juvenile. Put my fish in the stocking calc at the their current sizes and i have 78% stocked. My oscar is 7 inches and he is fine in the 55g, dont try to tell me i dont know how to take care of my fish. i know very well, and all of them are very healthy.
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I hope that you plan on finding a new home for your sailfin plec and rainbow, as the oscar alone will be cramped in a 55 gallon tank, not to mention that your plec WILL outgrow the tank or will die from being so stunted.


Leginess said:
first of all, jason, all of what you are doing is quite unnecesary, your being quite mean, i don't care at all, but im just saying, if you want to have a good side with most of these people on the forum, try stepping down the rudeness level a bit.
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Actually it's quite rude to blatently ignore the advice people give you time after time, especially when they don't even get a thank you from you. The people that have been posting are trying to help you out, yet you still act ignorant and don't care. Sorry if I am "mean", I never meant to hurt your sensitive little feelings.

Ballyhoo said:
Why would your knowledgeable friend from Petco ( petsmart ) sell you sick fish?
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because most employee's are focused on the sale at hand and could careless about the customer.

Inka4040 said:
Kuhlis and cories are both pretty salt sensitive. They are also sensitive to most of the medications commonly used for ich. This is exactly why people need to DO RESEARCH and QUARANTINE new fish before just chucking them in. The sowing part is over... Now onto the reaping. Have fun, and best of luck to your fish.
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Leginess said:
im 14, nowhere will hire me. I have no income of any sort, so i cant buy all these tanks like you guys, im sory.
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I'm 14 and I pay for all my own living expenses. (I don't pay rent, but probobly could if I quit football LOL) I umpire for my local little league during the spring, and mow lawns or shovel snow when I'm not playing football. Too say that you can't find a way to get money is BS, and then to make something suffer because you can't afford to keep it realistically is stupid.

Ballyhoo said:
Ich doesn't just linger in a tank.
It's a parasite so it has to come in on new fish.
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thats wrong bally, mine came back after 4 months and a month and a half with no new fish added. It can lurk in the tank for awhile....
 
User, I am saying this because I have been in his shoes before and please do not take this as mean or ment to make you feel bad, but I think you have said enough. You told him your opinion, he chose not to listen. That was the OP's chioce and please if you would leave it at that. This is a friendly community and it doesn't help a new hobbiest when people accuse him of varius forms of BS.

To everyone, I think it's time we stick to the questions being asked. Please put your personal feelings aside and post things that are actually going to help him. If he doesn't listen, then so be it. That's his choice.

Thank you.
 
I try to be nice to a lot of you people because i don't want to be hated on this forum, you don't see me going around saying what people do is BS. Im sorry if u didnt get your precious thank you that you needed, but maybe i was worried about a problem at hand that a lot of you are not helping with. there are some that are beg very tolerant and kind, but others are another story, so please, excuse my bad behavior, but i got some problems, and comments like user's aren't exactly helping.
 
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