That said, if a fish is in a bucket, it may be hard to see if it has Ick (or?) or not, the only way would be to notice it glancing, because any Ick spots on its side or on gill membrane, would be almost invisible. With that any advice is welcomed and your experience with lifeguard, other than that, onwards to heating the tank up and treating.įor me 4 weeks is about 4 weeks too short as a length of QT.Ī friend of mine who runs an aquatic exhibit at a zoo, will not QT any new fish less than 6 months.
#Tetra lifeguard how to
I didn't know if this thread would fit under disease, since its not about the disease since this thread isn't about how to treat ich. From every source that I read about ich, warm water and stressed out fish is all it needs to hatch and infect, and with all the moving of the fish, which I scoop them out with my hand for 4 weeks straight, plenty of time for them to hatch and get killed by the medicine being present in the bucket or I should see them in the fish, is what I presume. My thought process is, no matter if I do a 20% or 100% water change for the 5 gallon buckets, I would still be adding same dosage amount, and it would still be considered a little over a dosage since I dont measure the water up to the 5 gallon mark every time I did my daily water change. Fast foward 4 weeks, added them into clear container, no signs of white spots or other issues, add them to tank and now current problem. And would follow the instruction and do a daily 100% water change and just add another tablet. So I go through my quarantining process as explained above, but instead of ich-x or ich guard, I add 1 tablet of lifeguard. Then I had decided to try my hand on tetra lifeguard, since it covers many areas of diseases including ich it says and the tablets are smaller and measured for 5 gallons, making it easier to add. Now tetra ich guard and Ich-x, I have to eyeball it if I add it in, which I may add in too much or not enough, and have had instances of the medicine not doing anything and getting some disease (mostly ich) because of lack of proper amount equivalent to water. Then from there I would add the fish into a clear container and inspect them until I feel satisfied they are alright and then add them to the main tanks.
#Tetra lifeguard full
And would do daily water changes, but instead of changing a portion of the water, I would just do a full 100% water change, fill another bucket half way with water, add everything from airstone to meds, and this will continue until the end of quarantining.
Now I usually would add in tetra ich guard or ich-x. Then I would float the bags and release the fish into those buckets. Then depending on the type of fish I may or may not add in a small handful of aquarium salt. Then I proceed to add in a airstone, one of those HT10 tetra heaters, and add the following (tetra aquasafe plus, and tetra safestart for a little added bacteria). I will fill 5 gallon buckets, not to the 5 gallon point (which from what I read on other forms, is the second tab down), but instead eyeball it and fill the bucket half way with water from my bathtub.
When I receive new fish, I dont quarantine them in tanks, and instead I quarantine new fishes in 5 gallon buckets. Here is the run down on how I quarantine. This question is not about how to treat ich, I have had it in the past and dealt with it, this question is about if tetra lifeguard works, or if how I am quarantining is wrong, and if I could change the preventative medicine. Wanted to add new fish to it, quarantined fish for 4 weeks, added them to the tank, and now in two days, it now has ich. So, I have a 75 gal fish tank, that's been cycled/running for a year now, no problems.
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