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oodinium is nasty stuff. PP and salt is 100% not the solution if that’s the case. Buffer the water way up, raise the pH way up, and copper for the cure
50% WC, dose 2mg/L for 4 hours. Hydrogen peroxide at the conclusion of 4 hours. Salt 1TBSP/5 gallons to stimulate some post treatment slime/mucus production.
Personally, no. Gabe’s weekly use seems a bit excessive/bandaid-ish to me. Prophylactic/quarantine use, and occasional use for bacterial infection (external). 2ppm/L over 4 hours works better than “fancy meds” at 10x the price
1) no. They’ll be fine
2) maybe…kinda depends on the temperament of the fish you get.
3) if you can throw enough good food at them, probably.
I’ve had fish that were absolute murder wagons, not even the tetras were safe, I’ve also had fish that were somewhat pleasant with Apistogramma stowaways...
That would be a good start. In my opinion, a tank of nearly 600 gallons (by dimension 10x4x2) normally stocked would need a weekly 300 gallon water change, or 600ish gallons of drip in/flow through. Overstocked….I just don’t think you can change enough water to mitigate. Been there, done that...
Anyone else think the WC regiment is lacking? 48 gallons a day of drip in/flow through nets about 24 gallons a day of WC after we account for new water loss. 30-35% weekly WC in an overstocked aquarium seems insufficient
I like to always have two. I’ll start one in the AM, that will be used to feed early and mid day the next day, and one in the PM for an evening feeding the next day. (My fish room usually runs 80-86* which allows hatching that’s reasonable in 18-24 hours, if your hatching containers are cooler...
The dishes should be fine, but the big blender looking containers are pretty handy if you’re headed down the Apistogramma rabbit hole and will be hatching BBS twice a day for the foreseeable future.
Awesome. Get some water at the new place dechlorinated and warm in those 5 gallon buckets. Leave a gallon/gallon and a half of water in the tank for the fry and hit the road. Catching little fry stinks