what do i do MAN I FEEL LIKE CUSSING

[Gatortailale1]

I'm glad I'm not a fish in his tank. One sign of sickness and you get tossed out.

Ich is so easy to treat, even in a reef. Either use garlic or ruby's kick ich and you are set.

Maybe one of these flames with spark something in his head and he/she will learn from it.

 

[Xphixer2]

I have heard of people having success with hyposalinity. I am not sure if he has enough knowledge to try it, but it might be worth a try, that and Ruby's Kick Ich. I have always just increased vitamins in the food supply, and just weathered it out. I aggree with the earlier post about letting Kirtis talk to Kirtis..

He will have to earn a lot of trust on this board to get any answers from now on..
just my .000002 cents. (adjusted for recession)
Rich

 

[tazdevil]

Ok everyone, lets not flame kirtis anymore. He must be jerkin' us around, so the obvious solution to this is to no longer respond to his ?'s. He didn't follow the advice given by many, we gave him a chance (I even tried to help him e-mailing him off the board so he wouldn't get flamed for beginner mistakes) and he still wouldn't follow the advice. Now it seems he comitted the worst infraction of fish husbandry- killing a fish that only had the crime of becoming sick with a very curable condition. Now, Kirtis, if you did not kill that trigger, as we all hope you didn't, follow the advice given above on treating him. If your jerkin' us around, please refrain from the boards (this or reefcentral, or any others) as some true beginner may actually try what you are doing, thinking that you have found a rapid way to cycle a tank, and have disasterous results.

 

[danmhippo]

My tank has occasional die off's, but has never developed ich. I have received ich fishes into my tank, they all recovered and none others are getting ich too. I haven't seen ich break out in my cares for at least 7 years.

Kirtis, please don't buy any more fishes for at least 6 months and get your tank to stablize. You need a mature tank to be successful in the long run.

BTW, you will be very sad if your eel has ich too. They usually don't, but if your do, that's simply sad sad sad sad.

May I suggest you return the eel back to the LFS now? At least he will not suffer for the next few months.

 

[MarkO1]

Real or fake, Kirtis is entertaining!

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I have my 55 now and all my fish are dead , yeah

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[kirtis]

My water had been the same for weeks, everytning was happy until i put the trigger in , and for this board it doesn't mean ----to me anymore,


i am actually isteingin to what has to be done now like you told me and does it do any good hell no ,,,,,,, And if i want to dump fish is it my own buisness , none or yours, i can't afford to set up a quantine tank with tfilter and i can't afford $200 just to keep a $25 fish alive
and for you poepl thinking that i am only posting to get everyone aroused, how stupid can you be , OH NO KIRTIS POSTED THAT HE HAD ICH AND HE NEEDS HELP , oh man , kirtis is a liar and is going to hell , thats what you like, i am gonna find another reef board that will treat a person fairly and not just looking to hunt someone down and bash them


and again FOR EVERYONE THAT HAS TRYED AND HAS GIVEN ME GOOD ADVICE and tryed to help me i thank you and this note is not towards you ,

and STEVE i think it was you , kiss my ass , i don't want an anaconda and it sure as hell isn't gonna eat me , i would get a snake but am not allowed to ,


im not pulling anyones leg in lying about having ich , only a person that has no life and has PLENTY OF TIME , would sit and do such a thing

i hope this note isn't leading to offending eveyrone , cause i have had a lot of good help off this board,

but you want to play rough , bring it on

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[Bodine]

Try this one..no flamin` there

FLAME FREE BOARD!

 

[jamesw]

Yes, because anyone who posts a thought contrary to the dominant paradigm on that "flame free board" is banned. Sure makes for one big happy family over there, doesn't it?

What a great thread.

Thread closed.

James Wiseman

 

[MarkO1]

Woah guys... not everyone here is a super genius, so give Kirtis a break. If it weren't for the Kirtis' on this board, many of us would be bored, right?
Anyway, Kirtis, you've got to fix the problem both temporarily and permanently. I recommend you do the following:
1. Remove all the fish and put them into as big a tank(s) as you can with water having the appropriate parameters (pH, salinity, your ammonia & nitrite = 0)
2. Buy copper and a test kit.
3. Add the appropriate dosage of copper to the "quarantine" tank, and maintain it at the appropriate level for 2 weeks.
4. DO NOT OVERFEED the fish in the quarantine(maybe only the clown a flake or 2/day). Otherwise, you are going to see a massive Ammonia spike causing more stress! (unless you set your quarantine tanks up with a sponge or LR from your semi-established 55.)
5. make up as much replacement water as possible for water changes, and keep an eye on ammonia and nitrite. Keep them both under 0.25 ppm
5. Raise your main tank temp to 85 deg. and keep it there for 30 days min. to spped up the life cycle of the parasites.
6. put the fish back in and carefully watch them for odd behavior. Keep your feedings to a minimum.
7. Finally, make sure you take care of the source of the problem. I would be willing to wager that your ammonia and nitrite levels are much higher than 0 right now because you are probably feeding your morray more than you feed yourself! Get those down to 0 or you will continue to have problems.
Good luck!!!
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