Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[sfin52]

I only buy from lfs and they keep my fish in a seperate tank and observe and medicate if needed. Usually two weeks wait time.

 

[88471]

I don't either. More loss in qt that not. So I don't anymore. I think a very healthy tank with healthy corals eat a lot of the parisites. No actual proof though just my thoughts.

I don't quarantine either. I just wait until the LFS has had the fish a month or more and if they still look healthy I feel better about buying it. Lol

 

[sfin52]

Time to go into a sorority.

 

[Katrina71]

Speaking of shrimp...am I correct in thinking sexy shrimp would get eaten by my sixline?

I think so, but let me check with somebody.

 

[living_tribunal]

Too many risks, in my opinion, not proactively qting. Once you read about ich, it's life cycle, how each stage works specifically, it's interactions at varying salinity gravities and temperatures, it's something you CAN reliably prevent from ever entering your tank.

While some fish can deal with the annoying stress ich creates, and have a temporary(5-6 month immunity) after being infected, your fish is still stressed from it. At minimum, I don't want my fish to have to deal with that. At most, I don't want any of them to die or have the disease ever enter my tank.

While observation is smart, there could very well be encysted tomonts waiting to fall off as soon as they enter your display.

As long as you watch your copper levels like a hawk, your fish will be fine and most likely enjoy having a full month to themselves eating a lot of food.

 

[sfin52]

I think so, but let me check with somebody.

Yes I believe they will. Sexy are small little guys. I wouldn't trust the sixline

 

[Katrina71]

@living_tribunal I'm a firm believer in probiotics. NLS has probiotic food. I think success starts from the inside with diet imo.

 

[88471]

Yes I believe they will. Sexy are small little guys. I wouldn't trust the sixline

Thank you both! Maybe I'll just get another cleaner shrimp at some point. Little devils are expensive here though and I'm too tight to spend $40 on a single tiny shrimp. :p

 

[Magellan]

+1 cleaner fish and shrimp are a must in my tank.

What fish is your cleaner fish? That’s why I got the 6 line, I have such confidence in my cleaner shrimp to keep the fish healthy that I got a fish to keep my corals healthy!

 

[living_tribunal]

@living_tribunal I'm a firm believer in probiotics. NLS has probiotic food. I think success starts from the inside with diet imo.

If that works for you then more power to you! I view it like flu shots for kids or rabies shots for dogs.

 

[Katrina71]

All of my little guys pick. All day. I have a neon cleaner goby too.

 

[Katrina71]

If that works for you then more power to you! I view it like flu shots for kids or rabies shots for dogs.

I respect our differences. I hope you never have the opportunity to say "told ya so"

 

[living_tribunal]

I respect our differences. I hope you never have the opportunity to say "told ya so"

Likewise! Gotta keep the honesty in reefing though, too many anecdotal opinions stated as fact, too many myths, and too many lies.

 

[Magellan]

If that works for you then more power to you! I view it like flu shots for kids or rabies shots for dogs.

I want to stir the pot and say that it’s more like getting chemo without knowing if you have cancer! ;)

 

[living_tribunal]

I want to stir the pot and say that it’s more like getting chemo without knowing if you have cancer! ;)

I think people have this perception of copper because people DO NOT check it. It's very hard to get copper levels perfect and people just want to toss it in without testing it or knowing the appropriate levels between the two major types of copper we use.

Therapeutic levels are not bad for the fish and they won't even notice. It's not hard to take it past that though. My clowns lived it up in qt.

 

[Katrina71]

@Kimberely I asked the wrasse master, and he says his wrasse never bother shrimp.

 

[Magellan]

I think people have this perception of copper because people DO NOT check it. It's very hard to get copper levels perfect and people just want to toss it in without testing it or knowing the appropriate levels between the two major types of copper we use.

Therapeutic levels are not bad for the fish and they won't even notice. It's not hard to take it past that though. My clowns lived it up in qt.

I’m just messing lol, everyone has their own strategy and levels of acceptable risk. Personally, I have the worlds greatest cleaner shrimp and have only quarantined for the duration of the time it took to bring the fish home from the LFS and temp acclimate them.

There is a method to the madness though...I buy water from the same LFS, and they use that water in their tanks as well. Our numbers stay very closely aligned, it was part of my nooby strategy that has continued to work well for me.

 

[sfin52]

What fish is your cleaner fish? That’s why I got the 6 line, I have such confidence in my cleaner shrimp to keep the fish healthy that I got a fish to keep my corals healthy!

That's why I got a Leapord

 

[12gallonsofhex]

And before I get s**t on for the fluc treatment I had bubbles on long stringy algae before I started the fluc.
I needed the GHA under control because it was overgrowing my rockwork and the corals too.
I'm not too worried about it.
WC tomorrow to end the fluc treatment which was successful, GHA is pretty much dead and pulling off the rockwork really easily.
Next I'll research into what I have whether dino or cyano and check out my options for treatment.
I may use microbacter 7 I have here to seed better healthy bacteria tomorrow after WC.?

Oh, man. I just got over some invading dinosaurs. It finally took pulling the chaeto and letting the tank get 'dirty' to stop them.

 

[Musovski]

Ive updated my PC build, im going to cry after this purchase. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/SemirMusovski/saved/VWHwhM