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Hello,
Recently, I had a very traumatic experience with ich in my display.
hence, I’m not taking any chances at all when it comes to the quarantine process. I saved all my fish from ich, in the display. Check my post if you want to see more about my ich journey, still a battle but about done.
now, I have learned that a Bayer dip does absolutely nothing to ich. Given my luck, I am going to treat every single acro I buy as AEFW infested and ich infested.
I plan to:
buy all my acros from one source, except here and there I’ll buy 1 name brand one at conventions once a year or so. The source I plan to get the majority of my acros from is Battlecorals.
now dipping is one thing..scorched earth style, but what about ich? How can I correctly set up my frag/quarantine tank to house acropora frags for 76 days and ensure a successful transition (not letting those frags die during quarantine).
I was thinking:
setting up a 30g frank tank
Run a cheap black box for lighting
Lots of flow
Cheap skimmer
Weekly water changes
No fish, just inverts that will go in the display after 76 days as well.
auto top off
I will add 10 acros at a time plus all inverts (snails,hermits, pistol shrimp) and wait 76 days.
However, I feel that I’m going to end up losing my frags due to parameter swings etc.. how do you guys do this? Just do it the hard way and treat your frag tank like a display permanently? Am I overthinking?
thank you for the help, I’m looking to stock a 220 waterbox with a ton of acros and be successful.
Recently, I had a very traumatic experience with ich in my display.
hence, I’m not taking any chances at all when it comes to the quarantine process. I saved all my fish from ich, in the display. Check my post if you want to see more about my ich journey, still a battle but about done.
now, I have learned that a Bayer dip does absolutely nothing to ich. Given my luck, I am going to treat every single acro I buy as AEFW infested and ich infested.
I plan to:
buy all my acros from one source, except here and there I’ll buy 1 name brand one at conventions once a year or so. The source I plan to get the majority of my acros from is Battlecorals.
now dipping is one thing..scorched earth style, but what about ich? How can I correctly set up my frag/quarantine tank to house acropora frags for 76 days and ensure a successful transition (not letting those frags die during quarantine).
I was thinking:
setting up a 30g frank tank
Run a cheap black box for lighting
Lots of flow
Cheap skimmer
Weekly water changes
No fish, just inverts that will go in the display after 76 days as well.
auto top off
I will add 10 acros at a time plus all inverts (snails,hermits, pistol shrimp) and wait 76 days.
However, I feel that I’m going to end up losing my frags due to parameter swings etc.. how do you guys do this? Just do it the hard way and treat your frag tank like a display permanently? Am I overthinking?
thank you for the help, I’m looking to stock a 220 waterbox with a ton of acros and be successful.