@MnFish1 @brandon429 @ISpeakForTheSeas @vetteguy53081 @Jay Hemdal @lion king
sorry to tag everyone but you are some of the guys I seem to converse with and I need help. I have 4 large fish thin lined puffer, panther grouper, marbles Cat shark, and red volitan lion fish. Moved them from a 160 into my 210 that I lost everything to ich and then went fallow for 77 days. These fish got ich and I started trying to figure out what to do on 4/27. Once again getting caught with an ich issue when my QT system is full, I decided to move them into a 75 with a HOB that I have been running for months as a coral QT as I’m trying to keep this stuff out of my DT’s.
my best guess is that I had cysts that survived the fallow in low O2 areas like maybe in a canister filter I use on this tank?
So I moved all but the panther grouper into the 75 at 2.5 copper power and everything looked good for the first 3-4 days. Yesterday I added the panther grouper and my sea Chem alert badge started showing color change. So I dose prime and stability. Fed last night, dose P&S again this morning and prepped for a water change. Prior to water change ammonia at least 2.0 on Red Sea test. This after dosing P&S.
Changed out 40 gallons of water and dosed Copper power (got it to 2.75 is that too high should I swap some fresh mix to bring down) 2 Oz for the 40 gallons I thought I changed. And then dosed with P&S for 40 gallons.
Will the P&S keep ammonia from harming these fish (as long as I’m ready and able to do water changes if it spikes) or do I need to be doing daily water changes? Would moving tge FX-6 canister from their DT help (or does copper power kill the bacteria making it a waste of time)?
Of water changes am I better to do like two different 20 gallon a day or 1 40 gallon.
Thanks for any help.
sorry to tag everyone but you are some of the guys I seem to converse with and I need help. I have 4 large fish thin lined puffer, panther grouper, marbles Cat shark, and red volitan lion fish. Moved them from a 160 into my 210 that I lost everything to ich and then went fallow for 77 days. These fish got ich and I started trying to figure out what to do on 4/27. Once again getting caught with an ich issue when my QT system is full, I decided to move them into a 75 with a HOB that I have been running for months as a coral QT as I’m trying to keep this stuff out of my DT’s.
my best guess is that I had cysts that survived the fallow in low O2 areas like maybe in a canister filter I use on this tank?
So I moved all but the panther grouper into the 75 at 2.5 copper power and everything looked good for the first 3-4 days. Yesterday I added the panther grouper and my sea Chem alert badge started showing color change. So I dose prime and stability. Fed last night, dose P&S again this morning and prepped for a water change. Prior to water change ammonia at least 2.0 on Red Sea test. This after dosing P&S.
Changed out 40 gallons of water and dosed Copper power (got it to 2.75 is that too high should I swap some fresh mix to bring down) 2 Oz for the 40 gallons I thought I changed. And then dosed with P&S for 40 gallons.
Will the P&S keep ammonia from harming these fish (as long as I’m ready and able to do water changes if it spikes) or do I need to be doing daily water changes? Would moving tge FX-6 canister from their DT help (or does copper power kill the bacteria making it a waste of time)?
Of water changes am I better to do like two different 20 gallon a day or 1 40 gallon.
Thanks for any help.