On Oct 12, 10:10 am, "Pszemol" wrote:
"August West" wrote in om...
I do not know if this was mentioned earlier in the thread or not, but set up
a "quarantine" tank also. Filter, lights (I have a regular flourescent light
for a 20 gallon tall tank)and thats about it. Make sure you quarantine all
fish before adding them to the tank, or you will end up like I did, with an
ich explosion that wipes out all your fish except the lawnmower blenny. And
I did it AGAIN before I finally set up the quarantine tank. Duh....
No losses after making sure I quarantine and medicate before adding to the
main tank.

Every book I have read talks about quarantine/hospital tank,
so I am sure Big Habeeb knows about the quarantine from
his reading of four books ;-)

Yes I'm aware of quarantine tanks, and in fact have broken down my 36
bow front tank from its previous cichlid setup, and am going to be
changing over to a quarantine salt tank. Most of what I have will be
sufficient for that purpose, though I will likely upgrade the
filter...nothing wrong with my tetratec, and I've run sal****er on it
before, but its getting old, and is painfully loud. I feel OK about
ditching it...getting 5 years or so service out of a 40 dollar filter
- I'd say I got my money's worth.

Mitch