dogofwar
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It's always a challenge to quarantine new straight from the wild fish from Uruguay.
They always come down with ich. Hard. And the fish, especially Gymnogeophagus balzanii, are in the shape that you'd expect fish that have been living in buckets on the road would be, need some TLC.
Here's what I did this time...with pretty good results (so far).
I salted the heck out out of the tanks. 1 tsp / gallon on day 1. And another tsp per gallon on day 2. And another handful of salt on day 3. It seems excessive (and tastes like salt when I did water changes) but it works.
I added "Ich Attack" from Kordon from day 1. It's herbal and smells weird but seems comforting.
I heated the tanks from 76 on day 1 to 82 on day 2 to 86 on day 3.
I had dedicated quarantine tanks. 4 new 29gs and a bunch of bins. With LOTS of air.
I put stressed or battered looking fish in breeder nets. Isolation to minimize stress.
I fed all fish - in my fishroom no less - Ken's metro + garlic flakes - need to get all internal parasites out of the way.
So far so good. Only a few deaths. And a couple of tanks with ich. Still.
Matt
They always come down with ich. Hard. And the fish, especially Gymnogeophagus balzanii, are in the shape that you'd expect fish that have been living in buckets on the road would be, need some TLC.
Here's what I did this time...with pretty good results (so far).
I salted the heck out out of the tanks. 1 tsp / gallon on day 1. And another tsp per gallon on day 2. And another handful of salt on day 3. It seems excessive (and tastes like salt when I did water changes) but it works.
I added "Ich Attack" from Kordon from day 1. It's herbal and smells weird but seems comforting.
I heated the tanks from 76 on day 1 to 82 on day 2 to 86 on day 3.
I had dedicated quarantine tanks. 4 new 29gs and a bunch of bins. With LOTS of air.
I put stressed or battered looking fish in breeder nets. Isolation to minimize stress.
I fed all fish - in my fishroom no less - Ken's metro + garlic flakes - need to get all internal parasites out of the way.
So far so good. Only a few deaths. And a couple of tanks with ich. Still.
Matt