Ok, my tank has been running FINE since I had the 110gallon setup last year, to converting everything over to the 125 a few months ago.
Over this weekend though, I've had an outbreak of red slime and ich.
The only recent fault to the tank, was that a fish had been sucked into the intake of a powerhead and I didn't notice it until the powerhead stopped working (that was sooo gross cleaning out)
Anyhoo, it's a FO setup. The only inverts in it are a spiney lobster, and a hermit crab.
inhabitants are 2 convict gobies (used to be 3) 1 snowflake morray, 1 harlequin tusk, 1 lyretail wrass, and 1 volitan lionfish.
Tank is a 125.
Params are:
NA: about 35
NI: 0
PH: 8.2
None of these seem off of what is the norm for my tank.
I do not want to lose any fish to this! What is the quickest and safest way to treat them? I know that a lot of ich treatments are harmful to invertabrates, but I would rather save the fish than the crabs if it meant that. I don't ever plan on adding any corals to the tank either.
I'll also add, that the nitrates and phosphates from my tap water have always been really high, but this hasn't normally been a problem, and from what I can tell it hasn't gotten any worse lately really.
Over this weekend though, I've had an outbreak of red slime and ich.
The only recent fault to the tank, was that a fish had been sucked into the intake of a powerhead and I didn't notice it until the powerhead stopped working (that was sooo gross cleaning out)
Anyhoo, it's a FO setup. The only inverts in it are a spiney lobster, and a hermit crab.
inhabitants are 2 convict gobies (used to be 3) 1 snowflake morray, 1 harlequin tusk, 1 lyretail wrass, and 1 volitan lionfish.
Tank is a 125.
Params are:
NA: about 35
NI: 0
PH: 8.2
None of these seem off of what is the norm for my tank.
I do not want to lose any fish to this! What is the quickest and safest way to treat them? I know that a lot of ich treatments are harmful to invertabrates, but I would rather save the fish than the crabs if it meant that. I don't ever plan on adding any corals to the tank either.
I'll also add, that the nitrates and phosphates from my tap water have always been really high, but this hasn't normally been a problem, and from what I can tell it hasn't gotten any worse lately really.