Hey guys,
Long story short, I did not QT my fish properly and after what I thought was a successful QT regime, 2 weeks after putting my first pair of clowns into my newly setup tank, there was an ich outbreak...
It killed one of my clowns but the other one made it and is back in QT for a proper QT copper power treatment.
Since the tank was brand new and these were the first two fish in the tank, the tank is completely empty of any living things (aside from the bacteria).
But the tank has the ich parasite in it now...
The tank only has my scape and sand in it now. Can I use bleach in the QT tank to absolutely kill any possible remnants of the parasite in any of its forms?
I've read the best way is to let the tank run for 75 days and in that time the parasite will die as it cannot find a host... Probably/maybe/most likely... possibly.
I'm looking for a way to be like yeah... any living thing in that tank is dead... 100% and for it not to take 75 days...
Thanks!
Long story short, I did not QT my fish properly and after what I thought was a successful QT regime, 2 weeks after putting my first pair of clowns into my newly setup tank, there was an ich outbreak...
It killed one of my clowns but the other one made it and is back in QT for a proper QT copper power treatment.
Since the tank was brand new and these were the first two fish in the tank, the tank is completely empty of any living things (aside from the bacteria).
But the tank has the ich parasite in it now...
The tank only has my scape and sand in it now. Can I use bleach in the QT tank to absolutely kill any possible remnants of the parasite in any of its forms?
I've read the best way is to let the tank run for 75 days and in that time the parasite will die as it cannot find a host... Probably/maybe/most likely... possibly.
I'm looking for a way to be like yeah... any living thing in that tank is dead... 100% and for it not to take 75 days...
Thanks!