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P.S. I have a HOB filter on the left half of the tank. If I move it to the right half of the tank, do you think that will disturb the BTA? A significant amount of the flow comes from the power heads; I am not sure if moving the HOB filter to the right half of the tank would...
At Reef Currents the GHAC was evangelizing this philosophy of raising only one thing in a tank and having it as an art piece. Mantis requires min 30G, per @ITreefer, but maybe a clam or something would be cool. I believe that’s what GHAC had displayed. Pretty rad concept.
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Nah. Don't really have a good spot for a decent sized tank. Plus, I tend to enjoy it more at the office. It's a good break. I just sit on the couch, listen to the water, and kind of disappear for a few minutes.
Here's an article saying heat does kill ICH: Using Heat to Treat Ich in Freshwater Tropical Fish - Article at The Age of Aquariums - Tropical Fish
@Luman01 so much info. out there.
Temperature at 84; no more white spots. Could I have been confusing something else with ICH? Could the fish just have been stressed from tank transfer?
Haha! Thanks! The temperature is up to 84 in my tank. Fish seem fine. White spots almost all gone. Cycling QT. I will likely try to net all three fish sometime soon and place in QT with a slow ramp up to therapeutic levels of copper for 30 days. Then, I'll transfer back to DT.
In the meantime...
I raised my temperature on Friday to about 82F. I did this because I put in some ArcReef Coraline Algae in a Bottle.
I watched this scary YouTube video where they "dispelled ICH myths" one of them being that raising the temperature does not kill ICH. They explained the parasitic life cycle and...
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