fallow

Good afternoon y’all, I’ve got a bit of an issue I was hoping I could receive some guidance on. A little backstory- I just started my first saltwater tank a few months back, it’s a 32 biocube. Prior to that years ago I had a 90 gallon fancy goldfish freshwater tank I loved with everything I had...

Starting this off with this is not an emergency, so please dedicate time and mental energy to other threads :) I had a battle with Ich last year that wiped out a bunch of my fish. I transferred survivors to a separate tank and ran Hyposalinity. After going fallow for over 80 days I swear there...

I’m currently going fallow in my 15-gallon nano tank after my clownfish developed ich. The clown is in quarantine but isn’t looking great. My nano tank only contains live rock, sand, a mangrove, and some macroalgae. How long should I keep the tank fallow to ensure the ich is eradicated? Is there...

I am currently getting ready to move houses and notice that a few of my fish have ich. Now will be the best time for me to start fresh as I can put the fish in QT and then a holding tank while the display goes fallow. However I have coral, live rock, and inverts that can’t be in the QT tank so...

Hi all, I finished my ich fallow period of 76 days last friday (1st of November) and added my damsel back that same day in an isolation mesh to see if there were truly no parasites left. It’s now been 5 days and he doesn’t have any spots on him, would it be fine to release him back into the...

Terrible brook outbreak ( from my diagnosis) wiped out my tank ‘ I have a Waterbox 130.4 mixed reef and it took out 9 fish ! Including my yellow tang , hippo , clowns , wrasses , sleeper head .. etc . I have 2 surviving fish . My 6 year old purple tang and my year old yellow watchman . They...

Hi All, I have a relatively new tank (4 months), BioCube 32g. (specifics below) I had a pair of Ocellaris Clownfish. I lost one, apparently due to aggression. I waited 5 days then, after no signs of illness, I bought a smaller Clownfish to go with the survivor. There was no sign of aggression...

We had a brooklynella break out in our tank. We lost a few fish before we figured out it was brook. Here’s the history of what we did while we tried to treat and figure out what was wrong: We lost our first fish Nov. 7th. On Nov 11th I put my hand in the tank without shoes on and got shocked...

Greetings everyone, So by the title, you already know we’re currently in a fallow… (80 day mark is set for 12/21) So hopefully I can start re-adding back my fish from QT and no more issues pop up again… First tank background, I have a 96”x36”x30” main display and a plumbed in 6ft/140g ish frag...

Hi all, I’m hoping for some insight & advice into my next moves here. My scenario: On my newly setup 265G peninsula, I’ve been stocking fish slowly over a few months. Latest addition was a Purple Tang from TSM, and total stock, in order introduced: 2x Blotched Anthias CB multibar angel 2x...

This is my first tank ever. I have a 24G AIO that has been running for 8 months now. I never had a quarantine tank due to space issues until my fish got ich mid-April. I wasn't sure it was ich as the first fish that died had no spots or anything visible on them (Hector Goby). After a day, my...

Hey guys, so I started my first saltwater tank this year, added a firefish goby which almost instantly got ich and died. Now my tank is completely empty and I'm completely sad. Leaving out details of that story that I mentioned in other threads, my main issue now is that my display tank most...

Hi everyone, I have several fish in quarantine right now and one of them is this gem tang. He is currently in a 55 gallon hypo-salinity tank with a blue jaw trigger, melanarus wrasse, leopard wrasse, and a pair of long fin clowns. They were in my 265 gallon along when I someone managed to get...

So I just introduced two Picasso clowns to my 29gal system. Shortly after, introduced some inverts. One of my clowns took a quick fall from brook. It all went down within a day. Needless to say, I lost one of my first fish in the hobby. As of now I have a QT tank setup and the remaining clown...

I started my reef tank back in April and it has been nothing short of a nightmare from the get go. I added a pair of clowns to the tank a few days after the startup bacteria to help with the cycling process. I elected not to QT the fish since there was nothing else in there to contaminate at the...

In our previous tank we picked up Ich and Velvet from not quarantining our fish. After losing half of the fish and having to rush together 3 proper hospital tanks for corals/fish/inverts we vowed to do anything we can to avoid that in the future! Now 9mo into the current tank setup (90gal) and...

I'm finally out of fallow! Hopefully everything went smoothly and I don't have any pests in the display tank. Here are my fish back in the display after 80 days. Parameters of display as of yesterday: Nitrate 25ppm P.H. 8.15 ALK 8.4ppm CA was 375ppm, now should be 400ppm after a dose of...

Here are my Parameters...I've had an ammonia reading for about a month or so now... How can I fix this? I have snails and a shrimp in my tank. Day 46 of fallow. Ammonia (API) 0.5 - 1ppm Ammonia (Salifert) 0.5ppm Nitrite (Salifert) 0.05ppm Nitrate (Salifert) 2.5ppm Phosphate (Salifert) 0-0.03ppm...

Hi Experts, I am dealing with velvet attack and at this point I already lost about 85% of my fishes (even after putting them in QT for treatment). All left now are 1 Coral Beauty (currently in QT), a pair of Elegant Firefish (still in DT) & 1 Electric Blue Damsel (still in DT), am not sure if my...

Why would my fallowing tank of about 1 - 1.5 weeks be cloudy? Should this be of concern? I have a microscope if you'd like me to take a sample. Tank is 4 months old, fallowing for diseases for 1.5 weeks so far.

Ich and velvet out break, I am reading mixed reviews on fallow success. I have no fish left a couple corals and snails in a 20 gallon that is about 6 months old. I don’t want to wait a full 76 days if the chance of it failing is likely. I’ve read tomonts can go dormant, survive past 76 days and...

I current have 1 CBS and 10 cerith Snails in my display that I have begun to fallow. I have some Coraline algae in there too. I'd like to eradicate my spionid worms aswell, but in order to do that I'd need to have no food come to the bottom. Another thing is if I have no nitrates...won't...

Hi everyone! I've been trying to find sources that sell quarantined coral, not only pest free but also parasite free is what I'm looking for. I have a frag tank I use to grow out frags and quarantine my own corals but I would love to buy corals that have already been in a fishless system for 76...

So I rushed things 86 days ago with a pbt and it got ich in my display. So I removed all fish and qt’d them in copper (with a few losses) and then made a mistake by squeezing out too many sponge filters at once and the nitrite levels rose and I freaked so took all the remaining fish back to my...

Hello, So This is a little big of a long story. I have a quarantine tank up because I have velvet in my display tank. It has been a little over 6 weeks. I have extended by 2 weeks since i have made the mistake of putting my hand from qt to the other to my dt. My hand may have been dry but I was...