5 fish I have bought from one of my LFS and ALL have ich and three died within days !!!!! I have other fish in my 75 FOWLR that I purchased on a different store a long time ago and they're just fine. I keep testing my water thinking that it may be the water quality but here are my parameters:
PH 8.0
AMMONIA 0 PPM
NITRITE 0 PPM
NITRATE <5 PPM ( I would say 3 PPM )
PHOSPHATE .25 PPM
ALKALINITY 10 DKh
TEMPERATURE 77 - 78 F
Feeding frozen mysis and have some marine algae with garlic extract on a clip.
At the moment I do not have ( but want to get ) a UV Sterilizer. I'm running 2 Skilter 400 hang-on filters.
Not sure if to just stop going to that LFS altogether, problem is that I do love going to that store and looking at their vast variety of fish and products but if you look closely at their tanks MOST of them have either dying fish or showing signs of decease ( mostly ich ). I'm now treating my Sailfin Tang I bought from you just 4 days ago with Microbe-Lift HERBTANA. Please advise.
By the way, the fish are ALL eating and swimming good
