First post here. My son won a goldfish at the fair in October and all roads have lead to reefing.
Started off in a 13.5 Fluval and ran out of room real fast (fowlr tank). Wanted to go small nano to deal with the pain a bit quicker to see how much I can handle before upgrading to a bigger tank.
I have two clowns (great happy pair: black storm and wyoming white), royal gramma and a tiny candy cane pistol shrimp and shrimp goby who have both disappeared since day 1 (been a week).
Cycling the tank went well. Did a cycle with the clown fish added day 2 after adding live sand and quick start.
A few days ago, I noticed white spots on my royal gramma (who is very skiddish and took a couple of weeks to come out of his cave) which made him start hiding in his cave again and refusing food. Started dosing Herbtana the same day and the next day he was looking much better (spots gone) and moving around the tank again.
I know this is not an ich cure and that it does not remove ich from the tank. My question is actually about my next upgraded tank (IM Nuvo Fusion 40L) and transferring fish and live rock. What is the best way to do this without transferring the ich into the new tank without having to cycle again? Current tank is almost two months old.
Future plan for the 13.5 Fluval is to make it a quarantine tank. I want to focus mainly on disease prevention moving forward. Some say its unavoidable for disease to eventually get inside the tank but I'd like to keep as disease free and as easily maintainable as possible... for as long as possible.
Thanks everyone.
Started off in a 13.5 Fluval and ran out of room real fast (fowlr tank). Wanted to go small nano to deal with the pain a bit quicker to see how much I can handle before upgrading to a bigger tank.
I have two clowns (great happy pair: black storm and wyoming white), royal gramma and a tiny candy cane pistol shrimp and shrimp goby who have both disappeared since day 1 (been a week).
Cycling the tank went well. Did a cycle with the clown fish added day 2 after adding live sand and quick start.
A few days ago, I noticed white spots on my royal gramma (who is very skiddish and took a couple of weeks to come out of his cave) which made him start hiding in his cave again and refusing food. Started dosing Herbtana the same day and the next day he was looking much better (spots gone) and moving around the tank again.
I know this is not an ich cure and that it does not remove ich from the tank. My question is actually about my next upgraded tank (IM Nuvo Fusion 40L) and transferring fish and live rock. What is the best way to do this without transferring the ich into the new tank without having to cycle again? Current tank is almost two months old.
Future plan for the 13.5 Fluval is to make it a quarantine tank. I want to focus mainly on disease prevention moving forward. Some say its unavoidable for disease to eventually get inside the tank but I'd like to keep as disease free and as easily maintainable as possible... for as long as possible.
Thanks everyone.