Win the Ick & Velvet battle! Instructions in practice.

[@BankersReef]

I have to say, this is a huge advantage you’ve built over time at Polo Reef. You may be one of the top fish quarantine and fish health specialists in the game. Thank you for these videos as it really shows the right way to do fish care 🤘

[@PoloReef]

❤❤🙏🏼thank you. !!

[@josgraha]

Andrew I love how you can take a passion to the next level, then stack it to another level with these knowledge sharing videos, so inspiring man. Thank you!

[@PoloReef]

❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@dynomitedp]

Thank you so much!

[@cujo691dy]

Love these videos so on point went trough velvet twice lost so much fish is so sad almost made me want to cry 😢 keep the videos up loving it from miami florida

[@PoloReef]

❤️🙏🏼

[@danchac01]

Thanks for sharing all these information 👍👍

[@tonycloseukreef3799]

Great educational content 👍

[@PoloReef]

thank you. 🙏🏼

[@halbleiweiss]

Thanks so much for ,laying all of this out in a way for everyone to understand fantastic episode cant wait for the next

[@insanity4224]

Great job Andrew! Could you PLEASE do a video on how to correctly dispose of all these nasty chemicals we use for QT. This is important but generally ignored.

[@PoloReef]

guess you referring to copper formalin and maybe antibiotics ? Great question We try to neutralize that and in the end back into my cesspools buried i guess then seeping back into the earth.

[@insanity4224]

@@PoloReef exactly 👍 because chucking these chemicals down the drain is not good. And videos explaining how to dispose correctly is a good thing to point to when our hobby is criticised.

[@bradonvalgardson3855]

This is great, thank you!

[@fletcherwright7042]

Great information Dr. Polo👍

[@pscl227]

Love this series, thank you for sharing your knowledge! I have got a question, when setting up your quarantine system, how do you ensure good biological filtration, would you seed a small sponge filter with a chunk of live rock from the DT?

[@PoloReef]

depends on how fast i need to set up or is it a permanent qt tank !! But yes. many bioballs or seachem matrix seeded in a display tank or sump.

[@ch3rrytv]

I have a 310g mixed reef. QT all my fish myself (extremely thoroughly. Ordered a bunch of snails from a well known company- velvet was encysisted on shells due to a velvet outbreak a day or two after adding snails to the tank. All fish and coral were in tank for 6 weeks before adding the snails with no issues - nothing else was added. Velvet broke out, caught all my fish, re QTd everyone and put back in after 85 days fallow. I added fish back and velvet broke out again (assuming cross contamination of equipment)- this time I decided with help from LFS (their idea) to remove all coral and copper power the tank. Any reccomendations besides seachem cuprasorb, polyfilters and water changes to remove copper power after treatment is over? Thanks!

[@PoloReef]

cuprisorb in s reactor too. always qt. snails.

[@warlord8544]

If I have a 300 gallon FOWLER BUT have an eel in the tank what I can use to directly dose the tank

[@PoloReef]

chloroquine phosphate with eels.

[@roberttorres7208]

For tank transfer you forgot to mention you can treat for velvet with more offten transfers. 24 hour changes offer the best to beat the life cycle of velvet

[@PoloReef]

yes good point. just so much stress on moving and sterilizing.

[@ReefingConcepts]

i have a flame angel that is restless. always poking on the surface or swimming into the flow. eats better than everyone i treated the whole tank with Polyplabs MEDIC , i fresh water dipped him, treated him with both Kanaplex and Metroplex and he still does it. can his issue be neurological ? do you know if these fish act this way ?

[@PoloReef]

i need to see a video

[@ReefingConcepts]

@@PoloReef - how would I send you a video

[@philcavallini9657]

When a client has an ick outbreak and I can remove the corals and inverts. Only rock and fish are left. I drop the s.g. 1.010/09 and I add in coppersafe or copperpower for a week and then do a big water change, add in cu remover and carbon and turn on the uv and skimmer if it's off too. Within 3 months time of doing 50% water swaps and renewing the cu remover regularly, the copper will dissappear, rocks won't hold in any copper and these two don't stain like cupramine. I've done it successfully a few times unfortunately having to perform this task.

[@PoloReef]

yes. that will work.

[@PoloReef]

if you drop salinity id make sure ph stays up with a buffer.

[@philcavallini9657]

@PoloReef the acidification of the water by the fish's excrements will cause the rocks to leach off into the water and buffer it some.

[@bruhman8005]

What would happen if some copper treated water, for a quarantine, accidentally made it into a display? I am seeing some weird die off now, and can’t pinpoint what went wrong. I believe somehow copper made it into my display.

[@PoloReef]

get an icp done immediately. polyfilters or seachem cuprisorb .

[@simpleaquatics4262]

I currently lost my clown tang to ich I couldn’t get to it in time smh 🤦‍♂️ by far my favorite fish

[@PoloReef]

getting them out on time is key. !!

[@simpleaquatics4262]

@@PoloReef agreed lesson learned I’m currently headed to buy a quarantine system

[@EugeneRu777]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@cujo691dy]

Also can you post the links on where to buy these products in the video greatly apréciate it!!! Keep up the good work a fan here also follow you guys in IG