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TTM explained please
anyone have a link on how TTM works? I get the 2 tanks thing and transfer fish every 3 days, I guess my question is when you transfer fish from old tank to new tank are you supposed to discard old water from tank that fish is removed and replace with new water? if I have a 20 gall and a 10 gal and I have to keep replacing water I guess that can add up ...
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Yes, you have to replace the water.
You have to allow everything from tank 1 to dry for 24hrs before filling with water again.
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far less annoying than trying to extract and treat sick fish from a display tank.
there is certainly up front cost to any quarantine method, but it's well worth it in my opinion once you factor in the cost and time associated with keeping a saltwater tank. ounce of prevention, etc... etc...
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200 gallon box of IO salt costs about 50$....so about .25 / gallon.
Each transfer (10 gallons, in your case) costs $2.50. 4 transfers costs 10 bucks. That's probably cheaper than buying meds. Definitely cheaper than losing any fish. You can even use water out of your display, if the display is ich free. It really isn't that big of a pain. But everyone does the QT thing differently. Try it and see.
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There is a sticky on this in the disease section I believe. My suggestion would be to read up on diseases and treatment. Tank wipe outs because of disease is the single leading cause of people leaving the hobby
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A good, local store with healthy fish sure helps. Since you have an observation/qt tank set up anyway, you could look into copper or chloroquine phosphate. Or you can observe for a few weeks and go from there. Like I said, everyone does QT a little differently. The nice thing about TTM is that it's a quick (max 12 days), fairly cheap/easy, and proven way of eliminating ich.
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