Need Helps

JimmyTheBanana · 07/17/2006, 01:21 PM

hello,

Mi first time here. a one fish mines off taking home yesterday eat shrimps very quicks. now i look at fish and litle white spots on it like salts. is somting bad? helps i need very bad plees. sorry for english

rustybucket145 · 07/17/2006, 01:40 PM

Sounds like ich, a parasite. Not sure how to treat it I think people use copper medications (in a seperate tank)

JimmyTheBanana · 07/17/2006, 02:09 PM

I hear off ich once. can copper use in tank now? only one tank in house, no have money for two

rustybucket145 · 07/17/2006, 02:12 PM

If you have rocks, sand or corals in the tank it will kill the corals and make the rocks and sand toxic.

cristhiam · 07/17/2006, 02:16 PM

DON'T use cooper in your main tank, it will kill all inverts. Use this method better hyposalinity, you don't need another tank but you can use a large container. Follow this instructions.
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr...osalinity.html

07/17/2006, 01:21 PM	#1
JimmyTheBanana Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 5	Need Helps hello, Mi first time here. a one fish mines off taking home yesterday eat shrimps very quicks. now i look at fish and litle white spots on it like salts. is somting bad? helps i need very bad plees. sorry for english

07/17/2006, 01:40 PM	#2
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	Sounds like ich, a parasite. Not sure how to treat it I think people use copper medications (in a seperate tank) __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

07/17/2006, 02:12 PM	#4
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	If you have rocks, sand or corals in the tank it will kill the corals and make the rocks and sand toxic. __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

07/17/2006, 02:16 PM	#5
cristhiam Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Groveland, FL Posts: 3,099	DON'T use cooper in your main tank, it will kill all inverts. Use this method better hyposalinity, you don't need another tank but you can use a large container. Follow this instructions. http://www.petsforum.com/personal/tr...osalinity.html __________________ 2 yellows tail damsels, yellow watchman goby, tail spot blennie, purple pseudocromis, starry blennie, 2 clowns, 1 black clown, mandarine & Yellow tang Current Tank Info: 125 AGA, 3 40W 6500K, 3 110W URI Actinics, running on 2 IceCaps 660, CSS125

07/17/2006, 02:09 PM	#3
JimmyTheBanana Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 5	I hear off ich once. can copper use in tank now? only one tank in house, no have money for two