SRC Member BarraCudaTM Posted January 30, 2004 Author SRC Member Share Posted January 30, 2004 nope .. they were in my old rocks. The old rocks were sitting in a tub for close to 3weeks.. my previous fishes showed no signs of infection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member AlfaRomeo Posted January 30, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 30, 2004 hmmm starnge that the isopods can remain dormant for so long ... then all of a sudden become such a plague?.. a bit worrying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member BarraCudaTM Posted January 30, 2004 Author SRC Member Share Posted January 30, 2004 Yap .. I'm going to use Ozone as well .. Hope it will kill everything on the LR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roidan Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 in that case you can bubble ozone through those sanders woodstone in the tank itself since no fishes, corals or inverts liao.....faster and more effective... the reason why we push it through skimmer is because we do not want excess ozone to leak into the main tank system... but since you are vacating all life forms, then u can effectively nuke the whole tank water with ozone injection directly Quote Advanced Aquarist (March05) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Cookiemunster Posted January 30, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 30, 2004 Hi bro sorry to hear about this. But could you provide some info about the isopods in your tank? Any photos? Not all isopods are parasitic. Some are herbivorous. Quote My Humble 4ft tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Tang Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Barra pass them all to cookiemunster... he's a bug-lover! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member BarraCudaTM Posted January 30, 2004 Author SRC Member Share Posted January 30, 2004 Hi bro sorry to hear about this. But could you provide some info about the isopods in your tank? Any photos? Not all isopods are parasitic. Some are herbivorous. You want photos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member BarraCudaTM Posted January 30, 2004 Author SRC Member Share Posted January 30, 2004 in that case you can bubble ozone through those sanders woodstone in the tank itself since no fishes, corals or inverts liao.....faster and more effective... the reason why we push it through skimmer is because we do not want excess ozone to leak into the main tank system... but since you are vacating all life forms, then u can effectively nuke the whole tank water with ozone injection directly I will be plucking off the snails and emerald crabs before nuking it. I plan to soak all liverocks in freshwater and bubble it with ozone for 30mins or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member weisoon Posted January 30, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted January 30, 2004 BarraCuda? Sad to hear that your project is not working out fine.... Hope that you can get rid of them using the fresh water dip method. To recall, the isopods can survive in freshwater for quite a long period of time. the dip will make you will loose quite a bit of the rock's bio diversity. That's a point to think about. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Cookiemunster Posted February 3, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted February 3, 2004 Hmmm actually I was wondering why not just place a mandarin and a few doctor wrasse in. Sure to kill them all in a week's time. Unless the pods overwhelm them of cos. But due to the poisonous toxins on a mandarin's skin, pods may not attack a mandarin. This could be an interesting research on using nature to combat nature. Quote My Humble 4ft tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member BarraCudaTM Posted February 3, 2004 Author SRC Member Share Posted February 3, 2004 The pods are quite big.. much bigger that what the cleaner wrasse can eat. btw .. it might be a false alarm, I have a unknown 2" wrasse in there for a few days already so far I have not spotted any parasites on it. So it might be cirolanids and they are scavengers rather than predatory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Cookiemunster Posted February 3, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted February 3, 2004 hahaha thats great news. It might not be so bad after all. Ready food in the tank. Anyway I really don't think isopods can populate a start up tank so fast. They need to feed quite voraciously to survive and need much more food in order to reproduce. Quote My Humble 4ft tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member BarraCudaTM Posted February 3, 2004 Author SRC Member Share Posted February 3, 2004 They look like "sea" cockroaches and I'm still going to exterminate them incase there are really fish parasites in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member BarraCudaTM Posted February 14, 2004 Author SRC Member Share Posted February 14, 2004 Wow this stuff is really good for denitrification, I tried digging the sand out and the sand 2inch below turned anerobic. Very smelly and blackish, I have 0nitrates from day1 till now. I'm going to have a layer of glass beads underneath my C1 sand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member PornStar Posted February 15, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted February 15, 2004 Any possibility of MOing the Glass Beads? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member BarraCudaTM Posted February 15, 2004 Author SRC Member Share Posted February 15, 2004 Any possibility of MOing the Glass Beads? Whats MOing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member PornStar Posted February 16, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted February 16, 2004 Mass Ordering (MO) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member joachimsim Posted February 16, 2004 SRC Member Share Posted February 16, 2004 Will you get cut if you handle the glass beads with hands? Where can you buy them? Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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