On Oct 12, 2:42 pm, "August West"
wrote:
Good, that quarantine tank will more than pay for itself the first time you
do NOT have an ich explosion. Which for me happened as soon as I could lose
over 200 dollars worth of fish. It was always the fish that put me over 200
dollars that did it. First time was a Jawfish and a scissortail goby that
did it, second time a Tennenti Tang. Then it dawned on me that maybe, just
maybe, everybody else was right and possibly I was wrong. I even dosed the
whole tank w/potassium permangenate once, no joy.

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"Big Habeeb" wrote in message
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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.

Good thinking, Mitch, you are better at the start than most of us
who did not read books you have, and learned on our own mistakes.- Hide quoted text -

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You know its funny to read about these ich outbreaks - I was under the
impression that ich had a very difficult time surviving in salt, this
belief even further cultivated because I never had a problem with
outbreaks in any of my sal****er fish only tanks...but constantly had
ich issues in my standard freshwater setups. Not doubting anyone of
what they're saying, don't get me wrong, I guess I just got very lucky
in my salt setups in the past. It also probably helped that for the
most part I stuck with fish that were very hardy, and really only
wound up losing fish when my puffer got too big and too hungry for the
tank (if you've never seen a 10" porcupine puffer in a 36 gallon tank,
consider yourselves lucky). I wound up breaking down the tank and
turning the puffer over to the LFS after watching him decimate every
other thing in the tank. There was no stopping him either, despite
overfeeding him with shrimp etc. Nasty bastich that he was, I almost
hoped that ich would have taken him out, but no joy on that. However,
this was a 'learn from my own mistakes" scenario, and I will NEVER
keep a porcupine puffer again, despite how cool they are to look at.