Quarantine tank frustrations
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, 06-19-2010 at 02:46 PM (1700 Views)
I have a 30g long tank as a quarantine. I had to remove all my fish from my display tank because of ich. All that the QT has done is kill more fish. I've done my research and thought everything was going great until they started to drop off one by one.
I made sure all my levels were good before adding the fish to the QT. Water came from my display and I had plenty of extra stuff for every fish to hide in. I put an air pump on one of the decorations that had an air stone built in, and an extra HOB (with bio-wheel)filter I had running already. Nitrates are a touch high, but not deadly, no Nitrites or ammonia, alk is at 8, salinity is at 1.024 and ph is just above 8. I treated the tank with Seachem's Cupramine following the directions exactly. The copper has been at .5 and hasn't changed at all. I'm down to 3 blue/green chromis, one of which looks like he's on his way out but could possibly pull through.
I've lost:
2 Blue regals
Foxface
clownfish
Powder blue
6 line wrasse
2 anthias
This has been a truly disheartening and expensive experience. Enough to make me consider getting out of the hobby. Just looking for advice as to what I may possibly be doing wrong.