So I have had enough with fighting WS with bows and arrows. I know things might become a bit tricky in the long run with certain things but today I went and spent some cash.
Bought a 3ft - 920l x 360h x 320width water height is sitting at 280.2mm
I am going to buy some 110m PVC tomorrow for some hiding areas. Do I really need any lighting here. It gets A LOT of natural sunlight during the day.
I am not sure if the no lighting helps with WS or not.
I am going to go the copper route, there just isn't anything else that I can find after researching that will KILL the WS. The bucket method works YES for sure but I would stress the crap out the fish.
So there is A LOT of debate around if you can remove the copper from the tank afterwards or not. I have read some new research and chatting to @Adriaan if you run a good carbon reactor in the tank for say a week afterwards it removes the copper trace elements in the tank.
So some questions:
All the water in this tank was made Saturday - Salinity is sitting at 1025 and no Phos, nitrate, nitrite, ammonia etc. The salt I used was Red Sea Coral Pro salt.
Question
Do I catch the fish - drip aclimatize him for 1 hour and add him in, is that the correct procedure?
How long AFTER the fish is in the tank do I start with the treatment.
Here is my dilemma - REMOVE ALL THE FISH - that's like 25 fish and chuck them all into the 3ft tank? Wouldn't that stress them EVEN FURTHER by:
1. The catching them stress
2. 25 fish in a 3f tank?
The first fish going into the QT will be my fav fish my Powder blue - which is in a "QT" right now (it's my old DT which I am using with Herbatana - no help in THIS CASE not saying it doesn't work).
@Achilles - My theory is right now he has a bad bout of WS, he is FAT FAT FAT eating like a little machine but has TONS of WS. My THEORY is to get him rid of the WS in the copper, get him healthy, boost his immune system then introduce him into the DT. What do you think
So some pics of the QT:
Bought a 3ft - 920l x 360h x 320width water height is sitting at 280.2mm
I am going to buy some 110m PVC tomorrow for some hiding areas. Do I really need any lighting here. It gets A LOT of natural sunlight during the day.
I am not sure if the no lighting helps with WS or not.
I am going to go the copper route, there just isn't anything else that I can find after researching that will KILL the WS. The bucket method works YES for sure but I would stress the crap out the fish.
So there is A LOT of debate around if you can remove the copper from the tank afterwards or not. I have read some new research and chatting to @Adriaan if you run a good carbon reactor in the tank for say a week afterwards it removes the copper trace elements in the tank.
So some questions:
All the water in this tank was made Saturday - Salinity is sitting at 1025 and no Phos, nitrate, nitrite, ammonia etc. The salt I used was Red Sea Coral Pro salt.
Question
Do I catch the fish - drip aclimatize him for 1 hour and add him in, is that the correct procedure?
How long AFTER the fish is in the tank do I start with the treatment.
Here is my dilemma - REMOVE ALL THE FISH - that's like 25 fish and chuck them all into the 3ft tank? Wouldn't that stress them EVEN FURTHER by:
1. The catching them stress
2. 25 fish in a 3f tank?
The first fish going into the QT will be my fav fish my Powder blue - which is in a "QT" right now (it's my old DT which I am using with Herbatana - no help in THIS CASE not saying it doesn't work).
@Achilles - My theory is right now he has a bad bout of WS, he is FAT FAT FAT eating like a little machine but has TONS of WS. My THEORY is to get him rid of the WS in the copper, get him healthy, boost his immune system then introduce him into the DT. What do you think
So some pics of the QT:
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