Neffly4u
Active Member
Hello!
I am new to reefing. Have a 40 gallon Aquatop AIO, about 3 months old
Stocklist:
2 Clowns
1 blue spot puffer
2 cardinals
1 yellow watchman
1 diamond goby
I impulse bought a royal gramma from a different LFS and up to this point haven't quarantined anything (all other stock came from lfs that runs copper and has a good QT process). I noticed two spots on the gramma's tail but figured it could be anything. two weeks later and my puffer has a handful of spots and the gramma dies. Inspected gramma and was eating aggressively, acted normal and I've heard they can just die in the first few weeks for no reason so not sure if this was disease, parasite or just sad fish.
given a few days and feeding metro the puffer has reduced his ich spots dramatically and is doing overall well. no other spots on other fish.
Ideally I would run fish through TTM or copper and keep in QT and let display go fallow. Here's the predicament. I am moving in 2 months and will be setting up a new Reefer 350.
my initial plan was to use everything from Aquatop tank to jumpstart the new red sea but with ich now present I don't want to use anything unless I know its sterile.
do I start fresh on reefer 350? Add fritz turbostart 900 and once fish go through TTM and add stock? sucks to start fresh and loose 3 months progress on current tank but at this point i learned my lesson and will have QT from here.
Not sure how to proceed since moving adds a level of complexity i'm just not sure about.
Any advice is welcome. Thanks!
PFA
I am new to reefing. Have a 40 gallon Aquatop AIO, about 3 months old
Stocklist:
2 Clowns
1 blue spot puffer
2 cardinals
1 yellow watchman
1 diamond goby
I impulse bought a royal gramma from a different LFS and up to this point haven't quarantined anything (all other stock came from lfs that runs copper and has a good QT process). I noticed two spots on the gramma's tail but figured it could be anything. two weeks later and my puffer has a handful of spots and the gramma dies. Inspected gramma and was eating aggressively, acted normal and I've heard they can just die in the first few weeks for no reason so not sure if this was disease, parasite or just sad fish.
given a few days and feeding metro the puffer has reduced his ich spots dramatically and is doing overall well. no other spots on other fish.
Ideally I would run fish through TTM or copper and keep in QT and let display go fallow. Here's the predicament. I am moving in 2 months and will be setting up a new Reefer 350.
my initial plan was to use everything from Aquatop tank to jumpstart the new red sea but with ich now present I don't want to use anything unless I know its sterile.
do I start fresh on reefer 350? Add fritz turbostart 900 and once fish go through TTM and add stock? sucks to start fresh and loose 3 months progress on current tank but at this point i learned my lesson and will have QT from here.
Not sure how to proceed since moving adds a level of complexity i'm just not sure about.
Any advice is welcome. Thanks!
PFA
