Help me Stock My ich Free Tank

[whatcaneyedo]

Buy a good book on keeping marine fish. The Scott Michael series is pretty good.

[shiver905]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Very poor plan and indeed going into another disaster. Unless you quarantine all the fish and treat them for ich there is a good chance one of them will be carrying ich again. No point going fishless for 6 weeks only to reintroduce ich in your system either.

I dont think you understood what I was trying to say.
You pointed out the same reasons I choose to do this.
Sorry I have bad grammar.


My QT should be fine. A (standard 65g).


I was thinking:

3 chromis
midas blenny
pyramid butterfly
some sort of goby

[Leah]

I think that a good book is a must. If you have a wallet full of money then great...but the point is do you want to replace 1 fish or all 6 if it does not go well.

[Myka]

What's wrong with buying a couple fish and put those fish through 6 weeks of hypo before adding them to the tank, then go get another two fish and hypo those as well? Do you plan to add corals? Inverts? Anything else? Anything wet can carry Ich.

[born]

Question, you think the second set of fish would put a lot of stress on the first set, then could lead to ich?

[intarsiabox]

Originally Posted by born

Question, you think the second set of fish would put a lot of stress on the first set, then could lead to ich?

I have always bought and introduced my fish one at a time and haven't had a case of ich since my goldfish when I was seven.

[daniella3d]

oh I see...then that's different if you are going to quarantine them all together. Be ready for anything though...make sure you have the med for velvet or broklynella or ich if it happen because the more the fish the more the risk of introducing something that will contaminate all.

A good dip before introducing them might get your fish parasite free before they even enter the quarantine tank.

At least that's what I do and I rarely have to deal with parasites during quarantine anylonger.

Originally Posted by shiver905

I dont think you understood what I was trying to say.
You pointed out the same reasons I choose to do this.
Sorry I have bad grammar.


My QT should be fine. A (standard 65g).


I was thinking:

3 chromis
midas blenny
pyramid butterfly
some sort of goby