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Kind of old thread. Anyone else have any thoughts of running a natural/immune tank or does everyone else just quarantine and run a sterile, IMO, not normal tank?
Kind of old thread. Anyone else have any thoughts of running a natural/immune tank or does everyone else just quarantine and run a sterile, IMO, not normal tank?
Thanks for posting Flsalty and Beas.
It always amazes me that many people feed sterile foods and quarantine for 72 days and wonder why their fish always have problems.
I can share my opinion on this. Fish have two main parts to their immunity. Innate and adaptive. In my opinion it is very important for fish to have a strong innate immune system. One of the best ways to do this is to keep fish in a low stress environment while using high quality food. If a fish has a strong innate immunity they will have more time for their adaptive immunity to develop when exposed to a parasite.But what do you think about doing this with captive bred fish that have no natural immunity to anything?
But what do you think about doing this with captive bred fish that have no natural immunity to anything?
But, would you not have to then tear down or re-arrange / move around all the coral? Seems a shame to do that when it appears to take months / years to get the corals right where people want them.
Hello JCL and thank you for that nice long post. Most people write things like "Duh" or "Oh Yeah" or "you wouldn't know a moray eel from a goldfish".
I like long posts as I myself am wordy.
I also spoke in Boston a couple of years ago.
About the UGF, I don't move rocks to clean the gravel. Like you mentioned almost all of my rocks are up on DIY rock pillars so not much of them is touching the gravel.
That allows me to get my diatom filter in there and stir everything up. Of course I can't get everywhere but whatever I can reach seems to be enough. While I do that I also blast the rocks in between the corals to clean out the pores. That is a yearly task and takes an hour. I don't spend time testing, tweeking, quarantining, curing, medicating or changing much water so I have time for other things.
In Boston you can use the water, but not from the harbor.
From the harbor you can collect amphipods under rocks in the intertidal zone and from the bait shop you can use those "sandworms" but don't let them bite you. They are large so you need to chop them small or first freeze them. Excellent food. You can also probably get clams at the bait shop. Freeze them and shave off paper thin slices for the fish. You can adjust the size of the slices for the size of the fish. I feel worms and clams are the best food there is and if you can get those saltwater sand worms, that is perfect.
Nice to meet you.
Kind of old thread. Anyone else have any thoughts of running a natural/immune tank or does everyone else just quarantine and run a sterile, IMO, not normal tank?
I know it's easy to find live clams around here