lol Same here.
I've tried a little bit of all the foods I mentioned on my first post. I used very tiny amounts and cleaned up what I could to prevent overfeeding. I rotate each. Today I will be attempting cyto again.
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Thank gosh for QT tanks...
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lol Same here.
I've tried a little bit of all the foods I mentioned on my first post. I used very tiny amounts and cleaned up what I could to prevent overfeeding. I rotate each. Today I will be attempting cyto again.
Thanks, looks like I solved the food problem. He was eating the cyto. Finally, I was getting worried. Good thing I bought a new package. I wasn't going to buy cyto anymore because I already feed my picky fish enough foods. I was surprised he rejected mynis shrimp because all my fish love it.
Although, its always fun to watch fish eat cyto, you can barely see the food particles so it looks like the fish are smacking their lips for no reason.
Although, its always fun to watch fish eat cyto, you can barely see the food particles so it looks like the fish are smacking their lips for no reason.
ahaha, its good to hear your fish is eating atleast. oh yeah dont forget to him algae, my had HLLE for a couple of weeks and its healing slowly now.
It applies to both fallow and QT. The life cycle of ich has been stated to be 28 days. It doesn't matter if it's a large group of the parasite in display or just a few newly introduced in a QT. 6-8 weeks........8 weeks is better gives you more insurance that the very last egg has been destroyed once it has hatched.
I wasn't thinking in terms of number, but the way the parasite is killed.
The reason why you have to wait the entire life cycle in fallow is because fallow will only kill one life stage of the parasite (the one that needs a host). So you have to make sure that all parasites have a chance to enter that life cycle stage and be killed.
I was the under the assumption that hypo kills two of the important life stages. It kills the cyst and the free swimming stage. Which greatly reduces the time needed to completely kill the parasite.
I don't mind keeping my fish in QT for another month or so. But I do have a concern will keeping it in lowered salinity for such a long period of time. Which was one of my original questions.
Osmotic regulation is actually easier on most marine fishes at hypo sg levels. I remember reading a few things about hypo not being a great idea for Tangs but I don't remember if it was a concensus among pros or just anecdotal evidence.
I have kept my entire tanks worth of fish including a Tomini Tang and a White Face tang in hypo(1.009sg) QT upwards of 7 weeks. They all behaved and ate normally.
I have kept my entire tanks worth of fish including a Tomini Tang and a White Face tang in hypo(1.009sg) QT upwards of 7 weeks. They all behaved and ate normally.
Thanks! Thats the exact advice I was looking for. I have done hypo before, however I haven't had to do it for such a long period of time and since marine fish are delicate fish its causes me some concern when making such a large adjustment to an important water parameter. Its comforting to know it doesn't carry bad effects.
Just be careful when bringing the fish back up from Hypo to normal sg level. Go slowly. You can harmlessly drop from say............1.025 to 1.009 in a matter of 12-24 hours but going from 1.009 to 1.025 should be done over a period of at least 48-72 hours.
