To keep this brief I need advice. I tried to do the “right thing” and take in a friends clown fish he’s had for 2 years (I believe it’s a blizzard or Ice storm?) after he lost its partner and wanted to get out of the hobby I stupidly added it to an observation tank with some of his aiptasia infested live rock with the intention of breeding some Nudis and 2 fish I was almost ready to move to my DT (green mandarin and tailspot blenny) both looked perfect and aren’t known to be disease magnets but better safe than sorry. I got sloppy with keeping things separate and must have contaminated my DT (30L IM AIO) and low and behold I now have ich in the QT/observation… now to the fun stuff in my DT I have my clown pair I’ve had for years and survived a wild move so I need to fallow the tank, treat them, treat my mandarin and blenny and now another clown that absolutely can’t risk my clowns with. I just got my Chloroquine Phosphate and I have two more clean 10 gallon tanks that are dry… so.. my plan is
1) 10-14 days in the CP and into sterile tank which will be tough but I have the mandarin on a BBS feeder as well as the Tailspot as well as frozen and then do the extra clown separate and find him a new home and fallow the tank for 76 day
2) same as above except run 30 days in the CP and by then I should have atleast a beginning of a cycle in second 10g making the fallow a little easier maybe
3) same as 2 but get a 20L to use during the fallow period (mind you I’m fallowing my DT and what will now be the nudi breeding tank so I’ll end up with 4 tanks for atleast a hot second… any suggestions would be super helpful I really want to get this started asap and treat what’s going into my DT all at once so I can observe and do some tank remodeling in the mean time and hopefully not pull my hair out over the next 2.5 months
TLDR- I’ve got too many clowns and 2 picky eaters that all need chloroquine phosphate for ich… I need to fallow my DT at the same time. How long in CP and any suggestions would be great thanks!
@Humblefish if you’re out there I’m trying to use your CP protocol #1 I just want to verify it’s up to date and 10days will suffice Thank you!
1) 10-14 days in the CP and into sterile tank which will be tough but I have the mandarin on a BBS feeder as well as the Tailspot as well as frozen and then do the extra clown separate and find him a new home and fallow the tank for 76 day
2) same as above except run 30 days in the CP and by then I should have atleast a beginning of a cycle in second 10g making the fallow a little easier maybe
3) same as 2 but get a 20L to use during the fallow period (mind you I’m fallowing my DT and what will now be the nudi breeding tank so I’ll end up with 4 tanks for atleast a hot second… any suggestions would be super helpful I really want to get this started asap and treat what’s going into my DT all at once so I can observe and do some tank remodeling in the mean time and hopefully not pull my hair out over the next 2.5 months
TLDR- I’ve got too many clowns and 2 picky eaters that all need chloroquine phosphate for ich… I need to fallow my DT at the same time. How long in CP and any suggestions would be great thanks!
@Humblefish if you’re out there I’m trying to use your CP protocol #1 I just want to verify it’s up to date and 10days will suffice Thank you!
