Mandarin and Hyposalinity treatment?

[PodGirl]

Good read!

Its answered some of the questions I was going to ask. I tried brine shrimp again and then blood worms just this evening. He's now picked at them a few times but hasn't went all out on anything. I was going to ask if this was normally how they go about eating frozen food, but after reading your article I'd say he's definately not eating vigorously. He'll get there though.

Oh and the baby clowns aren't mine. We have a couple sets of brookstock where I work. Onyx clowns, TP clowns, Picasso, Orchid dottybacks, Seahorses, and Bangaii Cardinals. I do have a pair of naked clowns (seperate tank so no ich thank goodness) that I actually plan on trying to get to breed. If so hopefully naked clowns will be added to the above list.

[Europhyllia]

Oh very cool. Do you work for GC Reef? I may have met you when I picked up one of my female mandarins there! We made a special trip to Corpus to get her.
If I remember right for me it took anywhere from 3 days to 10 for them to 'really' go after it depending on individual.

[PodGirl]

Wow awesome guess. Yes I do. But I just started a few weeks ago and we haven't had any Mandarins for awhile so I doubt that was me you met. Well we have a very fat rolly polly spotted in our display but I don't count him as he isn't for sale. I'm really excited for the ORA Mandarins and I actually think we might hold off ordering any until those are available.

[PodGirl]

I have currently given up on the idea of curing my tank of ick. Earlier this evening my royal gramma wasn't looking so hot. The nitrite in my QT took a spike. So I have since relocated them back to the main tank.

I read that if no new strain of ich is introduced into a tank for 11 months the current strain will wear itself out. Therefore my new plan of action (so I can stop stressing my fish and myself the heck out) is to just let if run and if it starts showing signs I think I'll just use one of the reef safe treatments to "dull" it so to speak. I realize those medicines aren't really good long term but I'm not a fan of copper and I'm over the hyposaline thing. I plan to upgrade to larger tank in about a year so I'll just go super anti-ich with the new tank when I have it.

[SAY]

if you are planning to take all of your fish out of the display tank, is it necessary to change the salinity? it is my understanding that if ich doesn't have a host for 8 months, that is enough to kill it.

[PodGirl]

Oh no I'm not changing the salinity in my display. I was going to let that run for 8 weeks without fish so that the ich with die without having a host. However, the fish are still carriers therefore they would need to be treated (either hyposaline or copper) to cure them of ich otherwise once I put them back in the display they would just bring it back in.

[SAY]

aahh sorry. i didn't read your original post correctly.