Without fish for an extended period, sometimes with slightly raised temp to speed up the life cycle of the white spot.fallow ?!
Without fish for an extended period, sometimes with slightly raised temp to speed up the life cycle of the white spot.fallow ?!
Sorry dont agree at all, you can run a tank as fallow as you like and quarantine a Powder Blue, Regal or Achillies as long as you like, put them in that tank and for the first few weeks they will have white spot.
@Alan...I cant agree more...I’ve been seeing the white spot post for ever here and especially with the tang family even after qt within weeks the w/s return and the cycle start again back to qt. and then back to dt again...That method does not resolve the stress factor and every time you put a net to the tank you stress the living crap out of them...treatment in the system always has worked for me and that is my experience...
That being said it lives on a host and has a specific lifecycle
I understand the theory behind this but in practice i dont know if its that effective. My fish can go a year without showing signs of spot and then one day my Achilles is covered, i dont even stress about it anymore. Personally i would suggest good husbandry and the lowering of stress levels in the fish.Cryptocaryon Irritans is parasite. That being said it lives on a host and has a specific lifecycle. In the case of the abovementioned disease, it spends a certain period off the fish whilst it is in its cyst form. By doing the transfer method with an increase in temperature, you speed up its lifecycle and the cysts drops down to the bottom of the bucket. You then transfer the fish to its next bucket, and you break the parasite's reproductive cycle. If you continue this a couple of times more, you will elliminate the parasite completely off the fish. The only way it can then still have it is if it contracts it from the display tank it is placed in. Also, doing just quarantine without a treatment method only shows that the fish does not show symptoms.it might still be there live and well. By doing Hypo, Transfer, Copper(Yuck) you kill its chances of surviving into your display and quarantine is merely what it is there for afterwards - a method to observe any illnesses after treatment/before introduction. I understand Achilles, regal and powerblues are prone to it but that is due to their physiology(Being scaleless one of them). In the wild they cover many kilometers a day never staying to long in the same area hence the chance for infection being almost nil. In a tank environment if the tank has the parasite in the water already, it will get infected easier due to being longer in the proximity of parasite. I believe the three notorious "ich carriers" can be ich free provided that their tank they inhabit is also free of the parasite.
It helps with healing the wounds but wont kill the W/S.
Then the second thing do you quarentine new your corals ,inverts and liverock
no and no...havend bought fish for so long ....90% my stock coral / fish.. been in the tank over 10 years and new frags recently got from a reliable source...
should i ad more fish it will only come from a reputable sourse as well..
The only reliable source is when it has been quarantined from your quarantine tank
but did it go 7 years without adding anything else, corals, anything mounted on a piece of live rock.before last year’s move the tank went 7 years without any w/s or any other disease...
You always could have reintroduced it shortly before the move
yebo.