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I saw an ich cyst on my black clown in my DT. 10 months of quarantine. Copper, prasiro, copper, hyposalinity, and 6 months of all ths fish looking healthy with no new additions. Lost my YT in QT, she stopped eating. I think she lost her mind in a 20G high QT for 10 months and just gave up.
Anyhow, after extreme effort to keep ich put of my new 120g DT - it is now in there after just 5 weeks. Not bad... But I saw a single cyst - and much to my chagrin I know exactly what it is.
So, going fallow is not an option now. I have my QT full of fish in an effort to stock the DT in batches of fish.
So, ich management is now on my plate.
I am purchasing a 40 W UV sterilizer.
I do not want to tear apart my brand new plumb on my DT right now to add it into the place I lefft available for a manifold. I will probably hard plumb it once this tank is stable. Its only been up a month.
So, how do I plump this UV Sterilizer in a closed loop with tubing as a quick fix?
Gonna buy a .5 Sicce and run vinyl tubing in an out of the UV and in and out of the DT for now. Not beautiful... But I have enough space behind my tank for it. It won't fit in the stand. My basic blimp barely fits.
The unions on the UV are 1.5inch.. So, I'm thinking a 1.5 to 1 inch threaded female reducer bushings to fit the 1.5 inch UV unions. Then and a 1 inch male threaded barb for 1 inch tubing into that. That way I can unscrew it later to hard plumb it in..
Does that sound right? I want to install it ASAP... Avoid dino etc... And stop the ich early on.
Is there some type of attachment that will secure the tubing over the top of my tank? Maybe a newbie quetion... But I dunno. Need some advice before this arrives and I cant hook it up.
Thanks.
Anyhow, after extreme effort to keep ich put of my new 120g DT - it is now in there after just 5 weeks. Not bad... But I saw a single cyst - and much to my chagrin I know exactly what it is.
So, going fallow is not an option now. I have my QT full of fish in an effort to stock the DT in batches of fish.
So, ich management is now on my plate.
I am purchasing a 40 W UV sterilizer.
I do not want to tear apart my brand new plumb on my DT right now to add it into the place I lefft available for a manifold. I will probably hard plumb it once this tank is stable. Its only been up a month.
So, how do I plump this UV Sterilizer in a closed loop with tubing as a quick fix?
Gonna buy a .5 Sicce and run vinyl tubing in an out of the UV and in and out of the DT for now. Not beautiful... But I have enough space behind my tank for it. It won't fit in the stand. My basic blimp barely fits.
The unions on the UV are 1.5inch.. So, I'm thinking a 1.5 to 1 inch threaded female reducer bushings to fit the 1.5 inch UV unions. Then and a 1 inch male threaded barb for 1 inch tubing into that. That way I can unscrew it later to hard plumb it in..
Does that sound right? I want to install it ASAP... Avoid dino etc... And stop the ich early on.
Is there some type of attachment that will secure the tubing over the top of my tank? Maybe a newbie quetion... But I dunno. Need some advice before this arrives and I cant hook it up.
Thanks.