Man, that is a pain with the ich. I did not quarantine some new fish I got for my freshwater tank and had a huge ich breakout within days. After running a regiment of ich-x, I then ran a treatment of antibiotics to help with minor skin conditions my fish were having. It killed all my beneficial bacteria, and I was doing water changes daily for several weeks. The meds must have been harsh on the fish because they developed a mucus coat of film that was suffocating, and I lost half of them. I broke the tank down letting it cycle for a good month and turned it into a heavily planted tank with co2. I put the old fish I had back into the tank and now I quarantine everything before it goes into any of my main display tanks. Like you, I did not really have the space to quarantine fish. All you really need though is one of those large storage containers that holds water with a wavemaker or hang on the back filter and a heater. Then you can treat the more serious stuff without having to worry about killing all the beneficial bacteria or leaching copper into your main tank. Like me I think this may have been where you messed up. You probably added a snail or something that had ich on it.
The treatments freaked me out as well, I was too worried for coral health to dose anything into the tank. I’ve used copper before successfully but didn’t want to take too much focus off the main tank, which can crash without me noticing at times. I will definitely be looking into a cheap alternative for qt in the future, as well as examining everything I add into the tank! With saltwater petco has a bad reputation (it’s gotten me twice) for having ich and hitchhikers
sorry for issues try adding some porous bio blocks (2" cubes from brightwell) or something. You don't need a sump I just throw mine right in the display behind the rocks try to put them in a higher flow area. The surface area inside the cubes is like 1000x more than the rocks so all that bacteria in those can grab the nutrients out of the water before it gets to the algea. Also I think 5-6 hours of light is good enough. In the tropics they get a lot of cloudy weather and hurricanes so the 1-3 day blackout can be done a few times a month.
Greet looking tank looking forward to your updates! glad you didn't let the downfalls stop you in your saltwater journey. QT is critical so I would try look for ways to qt new fish in the future! i started using Seachem vitality soak it in food great source of vitamin C for fish to help fight disease! are you using tap or RODI water this can help keep corals healthy and fight algae! good luck and can't wait to see how your tank progresses!!!
Thank you for the comment! I’m finally starting to see good progress against the GHA, and will definitely look into a qt setup in the future! I use RODI but from the lfs which may not be perfect
Good evening. I hope you are well and your aquarium is doing better now, I would recommend you to put a bigger filter and for the green algae to adjust the brightness to lower levels adding 20 ml of medicine to fight the ammonia with so many deaths😂
low key insane the tang survived, tangs do NOT do well with ICK. next time raise temps to 83 degrees or so and dose with stress coat and malifix. stress coat will help your fish reproduce their natural slime coat, the malifix will help combat the ick itself, and lastly raising the temp to 83 degrees speeds up the life cycle of the ICK itself and helps combat it in conjunction with the meds. your welcome in advance!
I kept a reef tank for 20 year ,up until recently. If you ever get ich again ,I suggest (vodka) yes vodka .it kills ich in days . There's vids on UA-cam but a good Russian vodka works .
Great update on the tank .. such a shame you had so many bad experiences . Hopefully everything will start to settle soon and your tank will look amazing the corals you have are beautiful i dont have much luck with duncans going to try one in my 4 ft tank
Thank you! The bumpiest roads lead to the best views, I’ll get there eventually! My Duncan coral is very light demanding and will bleach at night if it’s not getting enough
I started with my saltwater 6 months ago too and i always fix the algae issue by adding clean up crew. But on ur case if i have that bad issue i will buy a cheap aquarium kit basically what u have and start fresh on the other tank. Cuz it will take faster to start another tank than battling that one. Then once the other one cycle move everything and clean that tank out and start again.
I ended up adding a heavy amount of phosbond and within 3 months my hair algae problem was gone, the summer heat from the window got my tank off guard and I definitely learned about too much and too little light lol
Look into doing a hydrogen peroxide treatment for the algae problem. As far as the ich since it is in your tank it will just keep living. It’s a cycle and you need to remove the fish and go no fish for about 60days. Any new additions will show signs of the ich as new host to the parasite. Good luck and as others have said upgrade your filtration and possibly look into a HOB skimmer.
Thank you for the comment! I waited a good 100 days before adding anymore fish which is working so far. As far as algae goes I’m trying my best to let it clear up on its own, but I may have to do it myself!
Man, that is a pain with the ich. I did not quarantine some new fish I got for my freshwater tank and had a huge ich breakout within days. After running a regiment of ich-x, I then ran a treatment of antibiotics to help with minor skin conditions my fish were having. It killed all my beneficial bacteria, and I was doing water changes daily for several weeks. The meds must have been harsh on the fish because they developed a mucus coat of film that was suffocating, and I lost half of them. I broke the tank down letting it cycle for a good month and turned it into a heavily planted tank with co2. I put the old fish I had back into the tank and now I quarantine everything before it goes into any of my main display tanks.
Like you, I did not really have the space to quarantine fish. All you really need though is one of those large storage containers that holds water with a wavemaker or hang on the back filter and a heater. Then you can treat the more serious stuff without having to worry about killing all the beneficial bacteria or leaching copper into your main tank. Like me I think this may have been where you messed up. You probably added a snail or something that had ich on it.
The treatments freaked me out as well, I was too worried for coral health to dose anything into the tank. I’ve used copper before successfully but didn’t want to take too much focus off the main tank, which can crash without me noticing at times. I will definitely be looking into a cheap alternative for qt in the future, as well as examining everything I add into the tank! With saltwater petco has a bad reputation (it’s gotten me twice) for having ich and hitchhikers
sorry for issues try adding some porous bio blocks (2" cubes from brightwell) or something. You don't need a sump I just throw mine right in the display behind the rocks try to put them in a higher flow area. The surface area inside the cubes is like 1000x more than the rocks so all that bacteria in those can grab the nutrients out of the water before it gets to the algea. Also I think 5-6 hours of light is good enough. In the tropics they get a lot of cloudy weather and hurricanes so the 1-3 day blackout can be done a few times a month.
Will definitely be giving this a try! My lighting was the issue and my tank is looking better. Thank you for the comment!
Greet looking tank looking forward to your updates! glad you didn't let the downfalls stop you in your saltwater journey. QT is critical so I would try look for ways to qt new fish in the future! i started using Seachem vitality soak it in food great source of vitamin C for fish to help fight disease! are you using tap or RODI water this can help keep corals healthy and fight algae! good luck and can't wait to see how your tank progresses!!!
Thank you for the comment! I’m finally starting to see good progress against the GHA, and will definitely look into a qt setup in the future! I use RODI but from the lfs which may not be perfect
Good evening. I hope you are well and your aquarium is doing better now, I would recommend you to put a bigger filter and for the green algae to adjust the brightness to lower levels adding 20 ml of medicine to fight the ammonia with so many deaths😂
The tank is doing much better now! Looking into a better light and larger filtration as well, hopefully no more fish deaths!
low key insane the tang survived, tangs do NOT do well with ICK.
next time raise temps to 83 degrees or so and dose with stress coat and malifix. stress coat will help your fish reproduce their natural slime coat, the malifix will help combat the ick itself, and lastly raising the temp to 83 degrees speeds up the life cycle of the ICK itself and helps combat it in conjunction with the meds. your welcome in advance!
also ORANGE FILTERS when filming your corals under the blues.. you'll thank me later.
Will definitely look into orange filters! Hopefully I don’t have an ich issue again but if I do I’ll definitely look into the medications
I kept a reef tank for 20 year ,up until recently. If you ever get ich again ,I suggest (vodka) yes vodka .it kills ich in days . There's vids on UA-cam but a good Russian vodka works .
Mac-10 rush B. Will definitely look into this
Great update on the tank .. such a shame you had so many bad experiences . Hopefully everything will start to settle soon and your tank will look amazing the corals you have are beautiful i dont have much luck with duncans going to try one in my 4 ft tank
Thank you! The bumpiest roads lead to the best views, I’ll get there eventually! My Duncan coral is very light demanding and will bleach at night if it’s not getting enough
Rocky Balboa Quote above you battling your Ugly stage 😂 quite apt !
Google told me what apt meant!
I started with my saltwater 6 months ago too and i always fix the algae issue by adding clean up crew. But on ur case if i have that bad issue i will buy a cheap aquarium kit basically what u have and start fresh on the other tank. Cuz it will take faster to start another tank than battling that one. Then once the other one cycle move everything and clean that tank out and start again.
I ended up adding a heavy amount of phosbond and within 3 months my hair algae problem was gone, the summer heat from the window got my tank off guard and I definitely learned about too much and too little light lol
@@505Aquaticswhat do you mean with summer heat causing algae?
Look into doing a hydrogen peroxide treatment for the algae problem. As far as the ich since it is in your tank it will just keep living. It’s a cycle and you need to remove the fish and go no fish for about 60days. Any new additions will show signs of the ich as new host to the parasite. Good luck and as others have said upgrade your filtration and possibly look into a HOB skimmer.
Thank you for the comment! I waited a good 100 days before adding anymore fish which is working so far. As far as algae goes I’m trying my best to let it clear up on its own, but I may have to do it myself!
Learning pains... Good
I know that tuxedo urchins and pincushion urchins eat hair algae good
Iv thought about it! I do like my coraline algae tho
@@505Aquaticswell that’s good maybe you should get a sand sifting goby next there a good cleaning crew for sand
Also could cleaner shrimps eat ich because cleaner shrimps eat parasites
They can but tend to work on larger fish in the wild, and my shrimp (boxer shrimp) is a bully. I still love him though
How many gallons in the tank?
29 gallon
Normally the tang dies before everyone else this is crazy
The chosen tang!