LadAShark

So, I’ve been reading up lately and I stumbled upon this relic. Diatomaceous earth filters. With tiny pore sizes, they can essentially filter out many microorganisms from our water, clearing up the water and reducing if not eliminating the spread of ich-like organisms (though there’s some debate about this latter one). I am interested in taking the plunge and getting one, but I want other people’s perspective and also, I have realized that the main company that made them for reef tanks, Vortex, no longer makes them, leaving three options, DIY, get a retrofitted vortex filter from amazon, or buy one intended for a pool (too big and also a little pricier than other two options). What do you lot think about DE filters? Do any of you use them? And of the three options in procuring one, which would be the best to go with?

Then I think I’ll go with that. LED lights and gift cards sound awesome. I was going to recommend some frags/clams/whatnot but a giftcard of course is more flexible and hence better.

I’ll be there, probably. As for prizes, uh, not sure what the standard is/pricing for the raffle.

Lol. Sounds hilarious, and expensive.

Oh wow. That’s an insane stocking list, how big is your tank to fit so many creatures? Haha. but yeah, I guess TTM is not so practical when you have that many fish to treat. How big is your hospital tank? Well if you look into it and find out what temperature ich dies at, you could theoretically boil the ich out of the saltwater, and reuse the then sterile water. Worth it? I don’t know, but doable if you have the right equipment and time. But yeah, understandable why you are just treating with copper. I guess I’ll stick around and think on your majestic angel.

Wow good looking fella indeed. You’re treating just ich right? Why don’t you use the tank transfer method?

Yep, a pic would be great.

I am very tempted, as I also was planning to pick up a frog spawn at some point. My only dilemma is I am also currently quarantining, as I somehow got velvet and... ouch. Enough said 😞 Anyway, if it’s not gone in two weeks or so, and my current fish stock is still doing ok in the hospital tank, I might consider adding him to a different tank separate from them until my fallow period is over.

If theDSBlack doesn’t take it, I will. Also sent message.

Hmm, majestic huh. How is its behavior with corals? Also, what do you mean by pair $150? edit: mb, got it, you meant “paid 150”

I more or less have it figured out and the rest are looking healthy. They eat too but don’t have much of an appetite. Up to full therapeutic dose of cupramine and thanks to @PetVet I also have chloroquine phosphate and a prescription for more of it. I am contemplating when and how I should switch to CP, but I am worried about my blue tang as I have heard they don’t tolerate it well. But on the other hand, I have heard that some velvet is resistant to copper treatments.

So update on situation: I saw the infection proceeding rapidly across basically all of the fish so I switched to treatment asap. I have pulled an all nighter (nothing I’m unfamiliar with after engineering and now being in medicine) trying to keep the fish and watch them as I treat them. Of the 6, 5: the indian and niger triggers, emperor angelfish, sailfin and blue tangs are all doing great and are in copper+furan2+kanamycin. The flame angel is in critical condition and could pass any second... though he’s been like that for hours now and I am somehow maintaining his breathing. I am also treating him but I am doing it separately from the other fish as I wanted to not increase the copper too fast for him. I don’t know if it’s worth my time for the flame angelfish, but I feel responsible for its life and so I will try to stay awake as long as I can— until I pass out, it gets better, or it passes away. I wish I had assumed that the fish all had velvet when they arrived. I thought I would watch them in my DT (as it was fishless for months prior) and then treat them in my hospital tank on first sign of something going wrong, unfortunately my blueface angelfish was changing colors simultaneously and hid the progression of his disease too well until it was too late. At least I caught it before it wiped my tank, hopefully I can at least save these fish... Edit: as of about 7:45 AM the flame angelfish passed away. I am quite saddened but partially numb after the blueface. All the other fish however seem to be on the path to full recovery. It appears I not only had velvet, but also some sort of gram negative bacterial infection.

Wonderful I am a little less excited for it than I was before because I recently had a breakout of velvet 😞 , rather, the vendor I bought my fish from— fishy business aquatics— sent me a sick fish which has me going fallow as I used my DT to quarantine (I had no fish for months prior— just inverts), but I’m still pretty excited to join in on the fun. But unless there’s some equipment or anything I won’t have the stomache to nab something living :’(

Woohoo, that helps a lot. Will do.

Rather, why is it that many of the things that are very difficult actually seem simple, deceptively so?