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mid-island reef

05-27-2005 04:57 AM

re: Cleaner shrimps/wrasse

Cleaner shrimp are pretty good at removeing parasites from most fish. They are also excellent scavengersand seem to live forever in captivity. Cleaner wrasse however ONLY eat parasites and in my exerience only live a short time in captivity.

Are you sure you have ICH? It may have spread on to a secondary or 3rd infection by now.

Just my 2 cents worth ...

Cheers

reefnut

05-27-2005 05:08 AM

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Are you sure you have ICH? It may have spread on to a secondary or 3rd infection by now.

what do you mean?never heard of this before.

mid-island reef

05-27-2005 05:38 AM

well like most diseases, it starts as one thing and as the immune system deteriorates it can cause a secondary infection , ect ...

Make sence?

Gizmo

05-27-2005 06:03 AM

Re: re: Cleaner shrimps/wrasse

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Originally Posted by mid-island reef

Cleaner wrasse however ONLY eat parasites and in my exerience only live a short time in captivity.

I must of had a weird one, he ate EVERYthing I put in the tank (special blend of mysis w/ cyclopleeze) :biggrin:

Snappy

05-28-2005 03:46 AM

Re: re: Cleaner shrimps/wrasse

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Originally Posted by Gizmo

Quote:

Originally Posted by mid-island reef

Cleaner wrasse however ONLY eat parasites and in my exerience only live a short time in captivity.

I must of had a weird one, he ate EVERYthing I put in the tank (special blend of mysis w/ cyclopleeze) :biggrin:

The one's that I have had will eat anything from flakes to frozen, however I only seem to get about 4-5 months out of them before they just one day disappear.
Greg

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