Nobody has ever claimed the "peroxide thing" cures a multitude diseases. Not the manufacturer nor any true scientific research. All I have claimed is it helps fish breath better. If it was a magic cure everybody would use them right.
I must have missed it, what is the peroxide thing?
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I guess so being they got infected with ich. You can't really mix quarantine and non quarantine methods. You really need to pick one and stick with it.
This is true like most queries in this hobby. We rarely have all the information and nearly 100% of the time it is ambiguous anyway as there are just to many variables.
Some people run tanks like that with minimalistic scapes. Tried it once didn't like it neither did my fish. Once instance in the hobby where more is more.
All my rock in my current tank came from tank breakdowns. I had GHA due to the amount of nuitrents leaching out of the rock. However it ran its course and I have very little of it now.Ya, I think I just find it frustrating that people want to drop fish into the display and not have disease but then don't employ all the best methods to do so. Having adequate hiding spots is one part of that since it should help lower stress. It was just an example.
Yesterday I put a dry rock in my tank and took a photo to show how crazy bright and unnatural new dry rock is before anything is growing on it. It shines bright under blues.
I mostly did this as an example because another thread was talking about disease in newly cycled tanks ... what I mean is.. you add dry rock + bottled bacteria + fish in one day. I was basically pointing out how the fish are in a room full of blinding white rocks if you add them day 1 and it is probably less then ideal and may be a source of stress. It sort of looks like white pvc pipe
I used to have a nice big rock there but it is covered in blue sponge so I moved it to a macroalgae tank for now as I don't want to end up with a tank full of sponge like @Paul B lol - I have been keeping it trimmed a bit but it does try to attach to surrounding rocks.
Paul,
Yes - thank you!! I just called my LFS to see if they could install a UV filter but they recommended seachem metroplex. I know that also won’t kill all the ich but will it help my fish survive this outbreak?
I personally don't like UV as it will kill bacteria and only give parasites a nice tan, maybe an upset stomach. A diatom filter will "remove" not kill parasites very effectively but they are hard to get. I have a few but only one that really works. If it breaks I will have to build one.
Tamberav, I always like your input.
I personally don't like UV as it will kill bacteria and only give parasites a nice tan, maybe an upset stomach. A diatom filter will "remove" not kill parasites very effectively but they are hard to get. I have a few but only one that really works. If it breaks I will have to build one.
A diatom filter will work better than TTM because it will continually remove parasites as they hatch giving the infected fish a fighting chance.
The foods you are feeding are fine. And, never use Metroplex.
Tamberav, I always like your input.
Hi Paul,I personally don't like UV as it will kill bacteria and only give parasites a nice tan, maybe an upset stomach. A diatom filter will "remove" not kill parasites very effectively but they are hard to get. I have a few but only one that really works. If it breaks I will have to build one.
A diatom filter will work better than TTM because it will continually remove parasites as they hatch giving the infected fish a fighting chance.
The foods you are feeding are fine. And, never use Metroplex.
Tamberav, I always like your input.
