sfsalty
06/10/2001, 12:00 AM
Hi all,
I think my racoon has ick. It has two small dots. Yesterday, he had one. The only potential stressor I can think of is that I added some ESV sand to my sandbed to make the bed deeper about a week ago. I screwed up and added 1" instead of only 1/2"; however, there was no ammonia spike that I know of. At first, I thought the spot was from floating sand sticking on the fish, but I have since seen the fish scratch a number of times yesterday (none today) and the second dot. He is eating and breathing fine. But he does look like he has a spot where he rubbed his scales off. At first I thought the spot was from the female maroon attacking him, which happened a few weeks ago.
The tank also has a pair of maroons, who seem to be unaffected. BTW, my cleaner shrimp has been useless so far.
I do have a 25 gal q-tank but it is at 1.009 sg for a new powder blue that had a parasite of some sort (probably ick) so I did hypo based on the board's suggestion.
What do y'all suggest I do? I am feeding more (soaked in selcon or zoe at one feeding and garlic for the other). I was thinking of somehow having a stopgap measure of reducing specific gravity in a rubbermaid for the three fish and then letting them join the powder blue but am afraid the Q-tank is too small for 4 fish. 4 fish in that size tank may cause more stress.
Main tank: up for 14 months now
100 gal
110 live rock
Lots of snails and shrimp.
3" Female maroon
1.5" Male maroon
2.5" Racoon
Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate = 0
SG = 1.024
Q-tank
25 gal
Aquaclear 200
3" Powder blue
SG = 1.009
Please your suggestions are appreciated.
Larry
I think my racoon has ick. It has two small dots. Yesterday, he had one. The only potential stressor I can think of is that I added some ESV sand to my sandbed to make the bed deeper about a week ago. I screwed up and added 1" instead of only 1/2"; however, there was no ammonia spike that I know of. At first, I thought the spot was from floating sand sticking on the fish, but I have since seen the fish scratch a number of times yesterday (none today) and the second dot. He is eating and breathing fine. But he does look like he has a spot where he rubbed his scales off. At first I thought the spot was from the female maroon attacking him, which happened a few weeks ago.
The tank also has a pair of maroons, who seem to be unaffected. BTW, my cleaner shrimp has been useless so far.
I do have a 25 gal q-tank but it is at 1.009 sg for a new powder blue that had a parasite of some sort (probably ick) so I did hypo based on the board's suggestion.
What do y'all suggest I do? I am feeding more (soaked in selcon or zoe at one feeding and garlic for the other). I was thinking of somehow having a stopgap measure of reducing specific gravity in a rubbermaid for the three fish and then letting them join the powder blue but am afraid the Q-tank is too small for 4 fish. 4 fish in that size tank may cause more stress.
Main tank: up for 14 months now
100 gal
110 live rock
Lots of snails and shrimp.
3" Female maroon
1.5" Male maroon
2.5" Racoon
Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate = 0
SG = 1.024
Q-tank
25 gal
Aquaclear 200
3" Powder blue
SG = 1.009
Please your suggestions are appreciated.
Larry