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I actually employ a bit of both when I QT. I hate meds like Copper and Formalin (though I 100% endorse formalin baths before putting a fish in a tank -- an hour in 37% formalin + salt water will clean anything off...) but I definitely do feel that Quinine based meds are very safe for fish.
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Does work. Have done it before. I let my tank run for 24 hours with fresh water in it prior to changing it over to salt water (with powerheads, it can take only an hour or so to get all the salt dissolved...).
But it's a PITA to have to do every darn day.
Why don't you try using Chloroquine Phosphate along with the process?
Ask Dr. Jim. He can get you the Chloroquine. It's a malaria medicine that is extremely, extremely effective against Crypt and is also very gentle on your fish.
I'm of the opinion that these things are nothing but good for tanks.
They only will attack dying coral/clams from what I've seen. I've never once seen any of them ever attack anything healthy in any tank I've ever had nor in any tank that I've ever looked at with the same question being...
I've heard it talked about a few times and Stan mentioned it when I talked to him about Zeo a while ago when I visited his place. Everything I've heard says that true Zeovit is a lot less forgiving and much more hardcore than NeoZeo. There's definitely a reason for the big price difference...
Basically, the bottle recommends you start out with 1mL per 50G and increase it till you get the results you wanted. So yea, what does work for me definitely might not work for others.
I think you're really on that super low spectrum, but if you're seeing good results, stick with it by all...
100% worth it. I run the Howell Petco's fish department and I had one complaint about a few dead freshwater fish (we're supposed to never have dead fish in the tank but sometimes you miss them with all the tanks you need to care for). I got hell for it.
It's worth it completely.
The Old Bridge...
Hawk -- Granted, this is true, but removing clownfish from the wild hasn't really shown any decrease in population from what I understand.
Frankly, they are slightly overpopulated if anything as many of them can't find anemones and end up being fish food.
I would still encourage people to buy...
So if they DID originally come from the same breeding pair, than I'm surprised that there isn't more about this going around yet (IE the somewhat condemnation of these clowns).
If they are closely related there will surely be problems down the road, akin to the problems that we see today when...
Actually, I'd consider all features somewhat of a mutation. Where do you think blonde hair came from? If you believe in evolution, you'd believe that it evolved sometime down the road from a mutation. It's a prominent enough of one that doesn't effect the life of the gene carrier to see it die...
I actually really agree with Dr. Jim here regarding the gene pool. The Picasso gene is obviously a recessive gene. Flooding the pool with these genes basically means that every single clown, possibly, could have this recessive gene.
Though, they'd have the dominant gene as well that would mask...