Zach72202
Community Member
Disclaimer- I am not new to fish, but am new to saltwater. I have a lot of freshwater tanks, but salt is new to me.
So I recently started a saltwater tank. Nothing complicated, just a 40B and planning to keep it low tech. I do QT in freshwater, as I am familiar with the disease and go-to meds, but in saltwater I am not all to sure.
Here's the situation:
Got fish- fish had ich.
Fish are now into a 10g tank with cupramine in it, copper test kit shows 0.5mg/L (at least I think those are the units)
All signs of ich seem to be gone, but I will be letting it sit for an extra few days just to make sure.
Fish are doing well, no problems there.
It's probably worth noting that the system never had any invert's (yet)
The problem then lies in the system. From my understanding, ich is now in the system, and really the main way to eradicate it is to wait a while or nuke it with copper. As I want to use the tank for a soft coral farm, copper isn't really an option unless I want to play with cuprisorb, which, I'm not about that.
Its just a standard 40B tank with an Aquaclear 70 on it. A few pieces of rock and crushed coral sand. The tank has only been going for about a month and a half, so nothing has really built up. I know its not really ideal, but this isn't supposed to be a display tank. I plan to use the tank for my pair of clowns and I would like to breed bengaii cardinals, along with soft corals as stated above. Nothing much more than that.
I do have a 7.5g cube tank I am using as a nano reef as well, so I can use that a seed bacteria. Given the tank is so new, and I wanted the ich out, I pretty much drained it of all saltwater and left it to run freshwater, resetting the tank. It has been like this for a few days now. How long do you guys think I should wait until all of the ich is gone and I could restart the tank as salty? I know this is probably the oddest way to go about it, maybe not even a good way, but who knows, its a learning experience nonetheless.
Sorry for the long winded thread, but thanks for reading!
So I recently started a saltwater tank. Nothing complicated, just a 40B and planning to keep it low tech. I do QT in freshwater, as I am familiar with the disease and go-to meds, but in saltwater I am not all to sure.
Here's the situation:
Got fish- fish had ich.
Fish are now into a 10g tank with cupramine in it, copper test kit shows 0.5mg/L (at least I think those are the units)
All signs of ich seem to be gone, but I will be letting it sit for an extra few days just to make sure.
Fish are doing well, no problems there.
It's probably worth noting that the system never had any invert's (yet)
The problem then lies in the system. From my understanding, ich is now in the system, and really the main way to eradicate it is to wait a while or nuke it with copper. As I want to use the tank for a soft coral farm, copper isn't really an option unless I want to play with cuprisorb, which, I'm not about that.
Its just a standard 40B tank with an Aquaclear 70 on it. A few pieces of rock and crushed coral sand. The tank has only been going for about a month and a half, so nothing has really built up. I know its not really ideal, but this isn't supposed to be a display tank. I plan to use the tank for my pair of clowns and I would like to breed bengaii cardinals, along with soft corals as stated above. Nothing much more than that.
I do have a 7.5g cube tank I am using as a nano reef as well, so I can use that a seed bacteria. Given the tank is so new, and I wanted the ich out, I pretty much drained it of all saltwater and left it to run freshwater, resetting the tank. It has been like this for a few days now. How long do you guys think I should wait until all of the ich is gone and I could restart the tank as salty? I know this is probably the oddest way to go about it, maybe not even a good way, but who knows, its a learning experience nonetheless.
Sorry for the long winded thread, but thanks for reading!
