500 Gallon Peacock Bass Aquarium

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man.....that is seriously some stubborn ich! i had one bout before, and it was gone in a day or two....

persevere! it will make the payoff that much more.....

no desire to continue to qt the smaller guys and source out some larger pbass? 6-7-8" ?
 
thecoolguy said:
man.....that is seriously some stubborn ich! i had one bout before, and it was gone in a day or two....

persevere! it will make the payoff that much more.....

no desire to continue to qt the smaller guys and source out some larger pbass? 6-7-8" ?
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Another WC complete.

Thanks. The first outbreak only lasted a few days, it did claim 3 victims, but the others recovered quickly. This round will just not end. The 500 keeps getting more and more things added and finished, while the growout looks smaller and smaller as the inhabitants decrease.

The 29 honestly wasn't a QT, just a growout, but it has definitely become one.

I would really like the satisfaction of raising from juvi, especially if I can overcome the ich. It may come to finding some larger fish...but I hope not.
 
increasing heat speeds up the life cycle of ich, it's normal life cycle is 2-3 days, the idea is that heat speeds up their life cycle to the point where they don't have time to find a host and die off.

also, osmotic stress can cause ich, which is somehting you can't measure. salinity, hardness and pH all contibute to this factor, this may be why you haven't been able to beat it. you can't cure the illness if you don't stop what is stressing the fish out

other causes include weakened immunity due to poor diet (ie low quality, potentially diseased feeders)


I don't think there is an issue with your treament of ich, the problem lies with not fixing what initially caused it
 
Its part of fish keeping, you have you're best days and you're worst days. Just jack-up the water temperature and you should be fine.
 
cjacob316 said:
increasing heat speeds up the life cycle of ich, it's normal life cycle is 2-3 days, the idea is that heat speeds up their life cycle to the point where they don't have time to find a host and die off.

also, osmotic stress can cause ich, which is somehting you can't measure. salinity, hardness and pH all contibute to this factor, this may be why you haven't been able to beat it. you can't cure the illness if you don't stop what is stressing the fish out

other causes include weakened immunity due to poor diet (ie low quality, potentially diseased feeders)


I don't think there is an issue with your treament of ich, the problem lies with not fixing what initially caused it
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Thanks for your comment. I agree that it doesn't do much good to treat without trying to remedy the problem. The things you mentioned, everything was fine for a month without changing anything, and even after my trip there is nothing that has changed. They are not on feeders, but frozen bloodworms, pH and hardness after so many water changes is a tap value, which as long as it is constant shouldn't cause stress.

They have lots of oxygen, lots of food, clean tank, clean filter, hiding spots, heat and salt. I'll just keep doing what I am doing till they recover or die, I can't do anything more than that I think.
 
Hey keep you're head up and try to do you're best to keep the remaining ones alive and well. Don't give up on a project, because ich decided it would give you a hard time.
 
Doing WC's everyday, possibly a little improvement, hopefully able to see some change by the weekend. It'll be 2 weeks tomorrow.

In the meantime, here is a picture of the current iteration of the tank scaping. Pardon the quality, phone pic as wife has the camera.

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Currently 4x1200gph Koralia powerheads and 2x300W heaters are installed. It's taking several days to bring the temperature up from room temperature to 86F. I could probably open the window and get it there a lot quicker, but that would be unbearable.

Filters going on this weekend, and also starting to skin the stand.

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i would have used a black background it makes the gold pop on bass but back to the ich try and use stress coat from api its saved small bass for me many times i swear by the stuff
 
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