UV sterlizer with reef???

[jfoxx81]

the uv alone wont kill all the ick..

yea but i wanna try and keep the stress down on the fish as much as possible to keep them alive till i get a hospital tank....what all would i need for a hospital tank as far as heaters lighting rocks..what the minimum that i would need to house my fish

 

[acanman]

yea but i wanna try and keep the stress down on the fish as much as possible to keep them alive till i get a hospital tank....what all would i need for a hospital tank as far as heaters lighting rocks..what the minimum that i would need to house my fish

just a few rocks.. a heater a powerhead and a hob filter will be all you need.. and after that just keep it going and use it for a qt.. and then if i was you i would run hyposalinity... it actually doesnt hurt the fish to do that. i just got through running it on my big tank cause i didnt have a qt setup and all my fish got ick.

 

[mr.reef24]

UV is great I just keep mine on a lower flow to kill off parasites and not the single celled algaes so the zooplankton still gets there food and the parasites die off.

mr.reef24

 

[acanman]

UV is great I just keep mine on a lower flow to kill off parasites and not the single celled algaes so the zooplankton still gets there food and the parasites die off.

mr.reef24

still it will kill any pods that pass through the uv.. especially zooplankton and phytoplankton. low flow has nothing to do with the uv light.

 

[redtailshark1]

just run it until the ich problem is gone

 

[Reefscape]

yea but i wanna try and keep the stress down on the fish as much as possible to keep them alive till i get a hospital tank....what all would i need for a hospital tank as far as heaters lighting rocks..what the minimum that i would need to house my fish

just a few rocks.. a heater a powerhead and a hob filter will be all you need.. and after that just keep it going and use it for a qt.. and then if i was you i would run hyposalinity... it actually doesnt hurt the fish to do that. i just got through running it on my big tank cause i didnt have a qt setup and all my fish got ick.

No point in putting rock in a hospital tank, as it will absorb any meds etc you may have to add..which will make the rock, well, useless...to save wasting live rock, just buy some pvc pip work, and cut small lengths and varying sizes and use that...the fish will use it to hide in etc etc and costs next to nothing to buy.

 

[jfoxx81]

No point in putting rock in a hospital tank, as it will absorb any meds etc you may have to add..which will make the rock, well, useless...to save wasting live rock, just buy some pvc pip work, and cut small lengths and varying sizes and use that...the fish will use it to hide in etc etc and costs next to nothing to buy.

thank everyone for the suggestions...

 

[acanman]

No point in putting rock in a hospital tank, as it will absorb any meds etc you may have to add..which will make the rock, well, useless...to save wasting live rock, just buy some pvc pip work, and cut small lengths and varying sizes and use that...the fish will use it to hide in etc etc and costs next to nothing to buy.

i never said lr.. base rock is good for a qt/hospital tank

 

[mr.reef24]

still it will kill any pods that pass through the uv.. especially zooplankton and phytoplankton. low flow has nothing to do with the uv light.

I know that I am saying that with the lack of LFS QT that the slow flow will kill some zooplankton but not enough to affect the tanks population the idea is to kill the ich from lack of QT and proper care from the catcher to wholesaler to the LFS to you the buyer to your tank. I'd rather loose a few pods to the UV then a tank of fish to ICH

mr.reef24

 

[acanman]

I know that I am saying that with the lack of LFS QT that the slow flow will kill some zooplankton but not enough to affect the tanks population the idea is to kill the ich from lack of QT and proper care from the catcher to wholesaler to the LFS to you the buyer to your tank. I'd rather loose a few pods to the UV then a tank of fish to ICH

mr.reef24

true.. but a uv alone will not kill all the ich.