Solving fish parasites with one of two paths: Management vs. Eradication. How UV can help!

[@BRStv]

Reef2Reef forum thread Ich eradication vs. Ich management - HumbleFish ➡ brs.li/R2R_HumbleFish_Ich

[@Brett5106]

I’m about to start my quarantine tank. I look forward to that series of videos.

[@Bushehri1]

Very nice speech 💬! Ty a lot for the video

[@jetsonnguyen2645]

I added an oversized pentair uv sterilizer 2 years ago, havent had one death to disease since, I will always use a uv sterilizer (large one) from now on.

[@pedrovfg]

Was your tank with some disease before Uv?

[@Firestorm637]

You guys are great. The internet is the wild, wild, west. Nice to have unbiased reviews! Expect the worst hope for the best not the other way around. All my tanks have Sterilizers. They help. Water looks grear

[@ezracohen6513]

Can you guys put out some thing on getting rid of the pest vermatid snails Safely in a reef

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

Everybody wanna try parasite management until velvet comes kick your ass 😂😂 QT all the way.

[@devadroid5269]

Agreed. Time and money spent upfront to prevent total annihilation.

[@ronbeatty516]

QT all the way.

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

And don’t believe anyone that tells you they’re not running a QT because it’s “too expensive”. You can set up a quarantine tank large enough for 90% of common reef fish for $100.

[@britishcanadianeh]

As usual another education piece that was very good. I subscribe to the idea of not incorporating some fish such as a tang, although I do have clowns and a wrasse.

[@sunnygoold9449]

Another great episode - wish there was someone like Elliot in the EU I knew about ;)

[@volteface69]

Merci pour ta vidéo !!! 👍👍👍

[@billyhenry4488]

What was the auto feeder in this video?

[@BRStv]

That would be the Lifegard Intellifeed www.bulkreefsupply.com/intellifeed-aquarium-fish-feeder-lifegard-aquatics.html

[@ronbeatty516]

My quarantining is most always successful, but I don’t do it like everyone else. My QT is large 55 gallon tank that is cycled, has live rock and sand for natural hiding places and biological filtration. The tank is In a quiet place and with lower lighting. The QT fish are fed a varied diet of high quality food at least 2-3 times daily. I try to make it a place of rest and recuperation. The QT is spa-like. It’s rare for me to lose fish in QT or after being put in the display tank. No praying. No meds. No UV.

[@abdullahabraham4483]

Excuse me man! I just started a reef tank. I got a tank of size 4 ft Length, 1.3 feet width & height. Which can hold volume of abt 150 liters. I put a wavemaker & a submersible pump (powerhead) in the tank. I think they r bigger for this tank. I don't run em at the same time. One of which circulates 3000LPH, another 3500LPH. When I run it my fishes find it hard to swim. So I want you to recommend a good size wavemaker & powerhead for this size tank?

[@ShawnComposer]

It sounds like you have a US 40 gallon tank. you generally want the flow to be 10x the size of the tank. so a 150 liters tank would need a 1500 LPH wavemaker. I would get 2 smaller ones(750 LPH or maybe up to 900 LPH) and put them on each end of the tank. What you have now is overkill. Hope this helps. Edit: also keep in mind that softie corals prefer to be in areas of low flow and stony corals prefer high flow.

[@irishlad7458]

Hey dude I use uv wands they submerge like a heater 2 x13w in the return pump section I have a nitrate section and the main section I know that the uv does not pass the float glass standard green end its weird because the each side of my small return chamber there is algea growing I researched b4 I added I did use to use before my media Chambers only took me 20 years to get it right🤣🤣🤣

[@Guacamole44479]

Humblefish is fantastic.

[@choobplaya]

I QT fish but not the inverts and corals. So UV is what I'm adding.

[@Rellikman]

Ryan, One problem is Brookynella (spelling) That parasite will multiply on the fish and increase in numbers without leaving the fish rendering a UV Sterilizer useless. Oodinium is rather problematic as well because it can use light as food and can survive and multiply in your refugeum, thus avoiding the UV sterilizer and having a greater chance of attaching to a fish. Hypo salinity is NOT effective in treating Oodinium. Maybe same with Brookynella. Both of these diseases attack the gills where they can kill the fish in a very short period of time. 48 hours or less. Both approaches work with regards to treating parasites. Brookynella and Oodinuim need 100% of the fish quarantined to be effective. Thanks for the Video, M

[@chadfishtankguy]

I just lost all of my fish to velvet In my 40g breeder:/ so this video is very informative. I’m leaving my tank fishless for 3 months or so but I’m going to for sure now set up a QT tank in the meantime.

[@BRStv]

Sorry to hear about your loss :(

[@chadfishtankguy]

Bulk Reef Supply thank you. I was into the hobby years ago with success and I never did a QT tank before. I will now since I have to start over. I’m going go ahead a get a bigger display tank now why not?!

[@chadfishtankguy]

Bulk Reef Supply would 3 AI Prime 16 HDs be ok for 75g mixed reef mostly LPs and softies ?

[@samiam9059]

U/V is an indiscriminate killer. Good and bad is mutated and killed. Over all more of an asset except where various medications tell you to turn off while using the medication. As simple as it sounds have done the best with a high ORP. Makes such a difference to have the High Oxygen when doing battle. Ocean averages 350 and keep it at 350 to 400+ all the time with no ozone. Some of my friends struggle with around 180 and does not surprise me at all. Fresh garlic is an excellent supplement also.

[@jonathaningham6120]

Should be up to the ten minute guide 🤣🤣🤣. But seriously I think you guys at BRS do alot more for hobby than most especially experimental, if not the only, 👍👍👍

[@BRStv]

The 5 ish Minute Guide...The shorter than our usual videos guide....we'll get it right eventually! lol

[@atfinthehouse8631]

Once a tank has an illness, it will always have an illness. Improve the health of what new fish you add. Uv for organism requires you know and understand the organisms life cycle.

[@anaisjoines8273]

Do you pretreat or just observe? How long QT?

[@Firestorm637]

Nutrition is too late once infected. Nutrition is always important not just during infection, as too late.

[@Firestorm637]

A $30 sterilizer does not work. Emperor and aqua are the best and trust worthy. Keeping load down.

[@abyankabir1910]

12 minutes ago! Hell yeah I’m going to watch it.

[@kurtisf3366]

5 minute guide is 9:42 long 🤨

[@BRStv]

5 ish Minute Guide just didn't have the same ring to it

[@justinsmith1111]

All fish should be QT'd. Period. It's wrong to kill animals because people are too lazy/stupid to QT.

[@djclay8712]

Yet a

[@nwyk153]

Put them in QT? It will stress the fish even more. You need to build up their immune systems by feeding them. If one fish has the parasite, pretty sure removing them wont do shite. The parasite is already in the tank system. Let nature do it's thang.

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

Most of the time “letting nature do its thing” in a reef tank infested with ich or velvet means most or all of the fish being infected and dying. Also my previously-infected clown in my QT disagrees. He looked WAY more stressed when being eaten alive by ich in my display. He’s currently spot free and eating like crazy.

[@pedrovfg]

@@bigbowlowrong4694 how did you treat him ? There are too many bad advices on the internet about cupramine, coppersafe and many others .

[@tentyme1]

Lol