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Yes. Stop taking pics of your feet lol.
Your right I was planning on dosing it every 2 days. I estimate it’s about 2.5 gallons and I was going to put 10 gallons worth of ammonia detox in it.Not sure you will get away with that little of water without seeing ammonia IMO before the 3 days are up
Ok. What if I put on opposite sides of room? And both these buckets are on the same day and where put together at the same time. So would that mean that would matter still?Not a lot of water, so I would recommend dosing prime or some other ammonia detoxifier.
Also, for TTM, remember, a single droplet of water can carry over a free swimmer. I tried it and failed to rid a Hippo Tang of ich. Do whatever you can to minimize the water transferred over, keep the buckets as far apart as possible.
Thank you. I have moved them across the room. Do you think I would have better luck with 2 day or 3 day transfers.Opposite sides of the room would be fine. The general suggestion is a minimum of 10 feet.
If you think the buckets were potentially contaminated, wet hands, tubing, a splash, hydrometer, then I'd dump the one and mix up a fresh batch, and add an extra transfer to your protocol.
TTM is pretty easy on fish, compared to other treatments, but requires a lot more time on your part. Mostly spent sterilizing and washing everything and generally being super careful. Best of luck!
The heaters are preset to 78°. So I am not as concerned about that. The biggest thing I am worried about is the sterilization. I used vinager for the first round yesterday and I might go back over with bleach just to be safe.I usually just use totes and do about 10g in them for TTM so ammonia is less of a concern.
Careful with heaters in such small volume..sometimes the thermostats on some are not great and could overheat a bucket.
These buckets are for the same exact time. I started them both yesterday at 430 pm. That’s why I am as concerned about them being that close. Should I change rooms every transfer? I think I will end up doing every 48 hours just because I am putting all this work in I don’t want one stupid transfer to be too long and mess the whole process up. I sanitized with vinegar yesterday but I’m not sure how good of a job it did so I am probably going to go back over it today with bleach. How long was your freshwater dip? And how many did you do? Just one at the end of the treatment? Or one at the end of every transfer? Right now I have only seen 4 tomites on the emperor and 0 on the tang. I haven’t looked as closely at the tang as I have at the emperor. Thank you for your help.^^.
If the buckets are for the same "batch" of fish, then they can be in the same general vicinity of each other. BUT, if one bucket is for hour 0, and the second bucket is for hour 36, keep them FAR, FAR AWAY. I had the space, so I went ahead and just made a sick room for the 20H tank the fish were in. The saran wrap is a great touch though! And I was still paranoid about bringing in small airborn ich particles into the surrounding rooms...hmm, I wonder if there's a study about that....
Bleach is very much your friend. I used .5 (dry) cup per 5 gallons, and soaked everything for a good hour just in case. Oh, and stock up on hand moisturizer, bleach is not good when you already have dry hands from working in fish tanks.
Also, remember that you can shorten the in-tank time periods (i.e. 72->48 hours) as long as you keep the total time constant (total 13 days). So if you're paranoid like me about disease, you can just do transfers every 48 hours. And do a very short freshwater dip (really, it's basically a rinse) while you're at it because shocking tomites(?) is great.
The heaters are preset to 78°. So I am not as concerned about that. The biggest thing I am worried about is the sterilization. I used vinager for the first round yesterday and I might go back over with bleach just to be safe.
Ok my tang isn’t doing to good looks very stressed out and very scared. Would I still be able to do this on him?So I did freshwater dips during each transfer. They were usually less than 5 minutes long.
Would I be able to put both the fish back together for the next transfer in the same tank? Or would this be a bad idea? They are both on the same time.So I did freshwater dips during each transfer. They were usually less than 5 minutes long.
Trust your gut. If you don't think a fish will last through a freshwater dip, then don't do it. My method relies on using a freshwater dip as a rinse, rather than an actual dip.Ok my tang isn’t doing to good looks very stressed out and very scared. Would I still be able to do this on him?