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Post by Carl on Mar 10, 2017 12:30:41 GMT -5
Someone offered that people have been successful with an Epsom salt bath or withholding feeding temporarily. Have you heard of these methods to treat this condition? This is good advice, as I have had some success with this for this and similar issues Carl
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Mar 10, 2017 13:25:58 GMT -5
SICK FISH: Oh, duh, sorry, no, it hadn't had any fry. OK, thank you. Do we have any idea how often to apply the methylene blue? VIDEOS: And, yes, the videos are a great supplement to the articles since we can absorb the information from multiple formats in different ways (well, you know what I mean). Thanks again for the videos. I will share them with my husband very soon since he is on board with improving our aquarium (he is the one who started it years ago). I would swab once a day. Best would be twice a day. Here's more information. www.aquarium-pond-answers.com/2009/07/fish-baths.html
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Post by debbie on Mar 15, 2017 0:09:26 GMT -5
OK, thank you, gentlemen. We are going with the Epsom salt bath and the methylene blue swabs. I appreciate your help and thanks for the link!
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Post by debbie on Apr 6, 2017 0:49:56 GMT -5
It has been a month and a half since any of our fish have died from the previous situation. Do you think that the filter media is safe now to use to cycle a new tank or would it be considered contaminated at this point because of the problems that we experienced when we added the new fish?
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Post by Carl on Apr 6, 2017 8:26:46 GMT -5
It has been a month and a half since any of our fish have died from the previous situation. Do you think that the filter media is safe now to use to cycle a new tank or would it be considered contaminated at this point because of the problems that we experienced when we added the new fish? Generally I give it at least 8 weeks based on my experience. Carl
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Post by debbie on Apr 6, 2017 12:37:59 GMT -5
So after 8 weeks it should be safe to use the cocoa puffs to cycle new tanks? I was very concerned about cross contamination but hate to throw out all that bacteria when we replace them with some Matrix.
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Apr 6, 2017 13:39:01 GMT -5
I believe the bacteria needs something to feed on to survive... if there's 8 weeks of time, it should have died off... I think that's where that amount of time is coming from.
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Post by debbie on Apr 6, 2017 17:04:01 GMT -5
So then whatever was contaminating the tank should die by 8 weeks. Alrighty, thank you again, gentlemen!
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Post by Carl on Apr 7, 2017 9:32:59 GMT -5
So after 8 weeks it should be safe to use the cocoa puffs to cycle new tanks? I was very concerned about cross contamination but hate to throw out all that bacteria when we replace them with some Matrix. Not sure I would use Cocoa puffs to cycle. Carl
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Apr 7, 2017 12:07:30 GMT -5
That must be the clarification. I was trying to clarify what Carl said, but must have gotten it wrong. I guess in this case you wouldn't want to use the media... since we don't know what the cause was? Better to be safe than sorry?
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Post by debbie on Apr 7, 2017 14:10:33 GMT -5
That is what I was thinking. We certainly do not want to risk any new fish from acquiring whatever was contaminating our display tank, but any fish that would go into the quarantine tank would go into the display tank eventually anyway and with the same media. I want to be cautious but not unnecessarily so. Thank you again!
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