I agree with Paul and us!
You don't have to use the scum. I just use it to seed the media.Scum and all you say? Hmm too bad i thought of this after doing a rather large water change yesterday
No qt fish, coral or inverts?
not even just a visual, make sure it doesn't develop blisters over the next 48hr kinda thing?
Not really. Adding freshwater with 0 beneficial bacteria into a brand new tank can have the risk of causing an ammonia spike with little to no nitrifying bacteria present. That can cause a bacterial blooms which can strip the water of dissolved oxygen.
Possibility but if your tank is healthy and that's the tank they're going into they're going to deal with it sooner or later.
In theory my display tank is pest free. I used dry rock and sand (which is more and more regret with every passing day) and all my inverts went fallow, and my 2 fish went through a copper power treatment.
I haven't. The one time I chose to QT, my corals I QTed started dying rapidly so I added them to the tank immediately. Saved several of them but I did end up with Monti Eating Nudibranches so, yes, there is a risk.No qt fish, coral or inverts?
I've had to treat freshwater Ich a couple of times. I raised the temperature and added Epsom salts or whatever the "freshwater salt" is
Like I said, I'm not saying I am right. I have ended up with Monti Eating Nudibranches once and Aiptasia twice. I've seen flatworms once in my tank but they quickly became snacks for my Damsels and Wrasses.
You do freshwater too? How many tanks you got?
Same.
Well that was my concern. If i get some crazy worms, my rocks all epoxied together. I can't really pull it out if a colony attached to it needs to be cleaned or something..
Right now only 5. I have 2 more to set up eventually but time and energy and stuff...
It's an interesting topic, thank you both very much. I don't quarantine fish and I always thought that you should use the cleanest water possible at least the first time you fill the qt tank, in case some medication could have a bad reaction with an unwanted bacteria that could live in the tank but does not affect the existing fish because as Tim says they have already generated a type of antibody if you could call it like that lol
None of my rock can come out or it's dominoes and dead coral...
So your wrasse' eat what they will and you treat somehow for the others? Or ordered a predator of the parasite? Like nudibranch for the aptasia?
The biggest problem with copper is that it kills everything - literally. It's a very aggressive treatment. Think of it kind of like chemotherapy except we're potentially treating a fish that doesn't need treatment.
I have had Berghia and Aiptasia File Fish. I've had Peppermint Shrimp.
I've got 2 fresh 2 salt.
