Emmanuel's 100g Tank

[Bl33dy]

congrats on the cycle emman

 

[emmanuelchavez]

Thanks, Bl33dy.

Unfortunately, there was an outbreak of ich in the tank.
I've been ridiculously busy with school, and now I'm getting sick, so I haven't gotten the chance to buy any ich meds. All I was able to do was raise the temp to 82.

I'll see what happens with the fish. I've only seen the ich on the tetras, not the rams. If they all kick the bucket, then I'll more than likely just add some cherry shrimp in there for a while, until I figure out what to do. I could always just add the betta and some rasboras. I'm hoping the rams and the majority of the tetras make it through.

 

[unwritten law]

the 29 got ich? yikes... can you move the rams to a clean tank like the 20 or even the 100 if its ready?

 

[emmanuelchavez]

The 100 got the ich. I don't want to move the rams over to the 29 and risk giving the other fish I couldn't catch ich (I still have 2 rams and some green neons in the 29).

 

[unwritten law]

o thats bad... try the ole salt method?

 

[emmanuelchavez]

That was my original goal... but then I realized that I threw out the aquarium salt I had since I hadn't used it in almost a year...

 

[unwritten law]

Hopefully you caught it early.

 

[big54bob]

Just raise the tank temp to 86* and go find some salt.

 

[emmanuelchavez]

I raised it to 82 because I don't want to risk melting several of my plants and pushing me back through a cycle. I'm busy with school and work all week, that I won't be able to buy any aquarium salt until Saturday at the earliest.

So far, it only looks to have spread through the tetras, the rams don't have a single 'grain' on them.

 

[emmanuelchavez]

It appears as if ich may be slowly disappearing from the tetras. They appear to have a few less 'grains' on their bodies... but then again, I was really tired and sick when I was looking at them last night.

 

[sweetpickles7]

They could have just gotten it by stressing out so much from being moved and are finally settling in.

 

[unwritten law]

no doubt but it can still spread to the rams

 

[emmanuelchavez]

Woo hoo! The ich has gone down significantly. There's quite a handful of tetras missing though... eh, not very much I could do.

 

[emmanuelchavez]

1/22/2009

2/10/2009

 

[PerenGee]

niiiiiice!

 

[DesignsOnYou]

Wow, eman. We will all continue to be jealous of your beautiful tank. That growout is amazing.

 

[TMony]

wow, your tank is looking geat

 

[unwritten law]

No fair, mine doesn't grow that fast... I guess I need to set up co2 again... and look to buy some flourish.

 

[emmanuelchavez]

Thanks. That's not including the hackjob I've done on the green sp. of sunset hygro and HM.

CO2 does help a lot.

I've gotta trim the L. Glandulosa this weekend.

 

[unwritten law]

I had a DIY setup but I i kept getting leaks... I might try to get it going again this weekend.