We are all grateful for what you're building here, Andrew! This is something that we needed as hobbyists and as conservationists. Education is the key to everything. With that said... Keep informing us with whatever knowledge you discover along your own Marine path. Keep up the great work, Andrew, and the entire team!
Great perspective. Thank you for having a professional on to discuss this highly debated topic. I had a horrendous outbreak of ich and velvet after making a big mistake of introducing a powder blue tang to a 1 month old tank. I lost half my fish but pressed on. Once my fish recuperated with good nutrition, I added a UV and then added some new fish. When the ich returned, I used Metroplex in the food and hydrogen peroxide dosing. I also used Selchon and Vitachem in the food. After about 6 weeks, everything did great. I have a healthy Sailfin tang, Blue hippo, rabbitfish species, and others. I have not seen a visual sign of disease in 3.5 months. I know ich is in my system but I am going to do all I can to keep inhabitants as healthy as possible using all reefing methods that I can. There are many ways to handle this but I do feel that methods of actual ich eradication is still not a guarantee for all the work and risk that goes into it.
Thank you for sharing your awesome tank as well as the knowledge you are providing! I am curios how you keep angels, butterflies and triggers in a reef tank?
corals in my tank are non fleshy sps or monti. butterflys sometimes pick at sps but theres just too many to damage. same with chalice. always taste few days first
What is the minimum tank size for an Achilles tang? I’ve seen people keep them in 150’s but it seems like that is too small. Is it 300 gallons? 400? Or is the length more important to allow it to swim and stretch its fins
A little concerning the way you guys are handling formalin at 3:53 mark. Dr Hall talking about wearing a mask and you don’t even have gloves on. Might wanna reconsider how comfortable you’ve becoming handling it.
Sucks that just like with human health, our first and main approach is medications for fish. Nothing against these guys and I understand how we’ve arrived here, just my casual observations.
What I like to do is when I get a new fish put them in qt without medication and wait a day or 2. With fish stores running low doses of copper fish can look happy and healthy. If after 2 days i don’t see any sign of disease I will just continue the observation period. I agree no point in medication unless needed. If something does appear then you can start medication. Copper quickly kills ich and velvet. I just did this process on a clown fish. Looked fine at the store 24 hours later covered in velvet. So I dosed copper and within hours it looked back to normal. After 14 days move the fish to a new tank for minimum 14 more days of observation.
@@PoloReef Yes of course. The problem lies with it being the foundation of health. Like med school students being taught under a curriculum which prioritizes pharma instead of realizing it’s the cause that matters and drugs/surgeries should be a tool/last resort you know?
I’m saying this because I know what robust fish look like. I collected my own off Palm Beach for my tanks growing up and these fish looked nothing like most from wholesalers/shops. They were so vibrant and healthy and we never had unexplained death or parasite problems.
We are all grateful for what you're building here, Andrew! This is something that we needed as hobbyists and as conservationists. Education is the key to everything. With that said... Keep informing us with whatever knowledge you discover along your own Marine path.
Keep up the great work, Andrew, and the entire team!
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Dr. Hall is very knowledgeable! Great info Andrew!
He will be here once a week !! happy to have him ❤
Love the class!!!!!!!! Hope to see more of this topic and many others. Thank you Andrew
More to come!
Great perspective. Thank you for having a professional on to discuss this highly debated topic. I had a horrendous outbreak of ich and velvet after making a big mistake of introducing a powder blue tang to a 1 month old tank. I lost half my fish but pressed on. Once my fish recuperated with good nutrition, I added a UV and then added some new fish. When the ich returned, I used Metroplex in the food and hydrogen peroxide dosing. I also used Selchon and Vitachem in the food. After about 6 weeks, everything did great. I have a healthy Sailfin tang, Blue hippo, rabbitfish species, and others. I have not seen a visual sign of disease in 3.5 months. I know ich is in my system but I am going to do all I can to keep inhabitants as healthy as possible using all reefing methods that I can. There are many ways to handle this but I do feel that methods of actual ich eradication is still not a guarantee for all the work and risk that goes into it.
Thanks for the great information! Can't wait till the next episode.
Cheers Andrew 👍
thx Tony
Thank you for such an incredible knowledge. Will surely help in future 🙏
Always great content! Learning from the best is always appreciated. Thanks for sharing
my pleasure. have so much more to do here including dosing amounts and different antibiotics exciting
Thank you for sharing your awesome tank as well as the knowledge you are providing! I am curios how you keep angels, butterflies and triggers in a reef tank?
corals in my tank are non fleshy sps or monti. butterflys sometimes pick at sps but theres just too many to damage. same with chalice. always taste few days first
Main take aways: consistency, consistency and applying proper methods of treatment.
Wow! Thats awesome! I would never miss class like this one. Do you need to apply honey everyday? What is the posology ?
good question. let you know
@7:25 - I think the Dr meant to say Manuka honey... 🙂
Thank you for the video
Thanks for watching!
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This is why I always use safety stop. Best investment I've ever made
What is the minimum tank size for an Achilles tang? I’ve seen people keep them in 150’s but it seems like that is too small. Is it 300 gallons? 400? Or is the length more important to allow it to swim and stretch its fins
300 no problem.
Reef medic is safe for coral
A little concerning the way you guys are handling formalin at 3:53 mark. Dr Hall talking about wearing a mask and you don’t even have gloves on. Might wanna reconsider how comfortable you’ve becoming handling it.
that was not me. lol. yalcin is comfortable and is is experienced enough.
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terrible video quality
Sucks that just like with human health, our first and main approach is medications for fish. Nothing against these guys and I understand how we’ve arrived here, just my casual observations.
What I like to do is when I get a new fish put them in qt without medication and wait a day or 2. With fish stores running low doses of copper fish can look happy and healthy. If after 2 days i don’t see any sign of disease I will just continue the observation period. I agree no point in medication unless needed. If something does appear then you can start medication. Copper quickly kills ich and velvet. I just did this process on a clown fish. Looked fine at the store 24 hours later covered in velvet. So I dosed copper and within hours it looked back to normal. After 14 days move the fish to a new tank for minimum 14 more days of observation.
better than wiping out a tank and out of the hobby
But are medications more natural or man made? Either way, if medications prevent certain death......
@@PoloReef Yes of course. The problem lies with it being the foundation of health. Like med school students being taught under a curriculum which prioritizes pharma instead of realizing it’s the cause that matters and drugs/surgeries should be a tool/last resort you know?
I’m saying this because I know what robust fish look like. I collected my own off Palm Beach for my tanks growing up and these fish looked nothing like most from wholesalers/shops. They were so vibrant and healthy and we never had unexplained death or parasite problems.