Originally Posted by
torque6
ya, i saw earlier, that your tank is 2 feet, so about 65 litres. If have ICH and have substrate, then problem, the parasite will hide in the soil and reinfect weak fish. The medication only kills ICH when they are free floating. This is why for ICH, best to treat with bare bottom tank. Option is to move the already sick fish to another quarantine tank but that = high stress, so far doing this with already sick fish = all die, at least for me. You can medicate in the existing tank if you do not have shrimps or snails but you already have yamato shrimps so that rules out medication since most of them have some % of copper.
Now you know the dilema of not following what's recommended....
One of the best practice is the following:-
1) Start up tank, plant densely and let it cycle 1 month.
2) In (1) if using canister, prep additional 2-3 sponges to seed bacteria.
3) after 1 month, remove sponge from canister to quarantine tank fit the sponge to those power heads/ air pumps. Check if water stable, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, PH etc.
4) within the week of pt (3), add newly bought fish into quarantine tank for 3 weeks. Can add paraguard or ich med or copper med the following week. Ensure not to exceed 50% fish load - use AQadvisor to determine bioload.
5) add all fish to display tank if no signs of diease.
6) repeat for other fish addition.
As you can see, very very tedious. But reports from numerous forums conveyed that the survivable rate is very high and fish last for few years, depending also on longevitiy of the fish of course.
But I don't think a majority of us do that. Most just acclimate and dump in after buying from LFS. If lucky, all fish healthy. If not lucky, fish start having problems some months down the road (die for no reasons). If very unlucky = all die in few weeks.
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