and then after that: only add back in fish that you quarantined using the methods from disease forum stickies
and never add a single wet item from a pet store ever again to the tank that did not pass through a separate fallow prep tank in your home. You must reverse the entire order of ops you reefed by in order to not lose the next batch of fish two years from now. We can’t skip disease preps any longer
for example
lets say you do what Jay says above, that starves out the fish disease for that particular malady.
then in November the lfs has a sale where a six hundred dollar torch coral is marked down to forty dollars
you buy it, it doesnt go in your tank, it goes in your clean and sterilized and recently recycled fallow pass through tank in another room of the house for sixty days. Then it’s added to the reef
lets say at the lfs you want a bumblebee snail one day, for three dollars. When you buy it, it doesn’t go into your reef. It goes into the recently cleaned and recycled holding tank in a separate room of your house for sixty days, then it goes in the display. Anything wet from a pet store or someone else’s tank gets this order of ops
when you buy wet things from a pet store to add, buy them in groups so they pass fallow in groups at a time
if you buy things one by one, you’re cleaning out and sterilizing and recycling the holding system over and over for each singular new addition
consider this: you were thinking the recommendation here would be to buy a bottle of something from the pet store, a no-work option
no, a high work option is the only way
must spend two hours reading every help post from the first four pages of the disease forum to not lose the next batch of fish. Study the troubleshooting and remediation recommends for each post, apply those patterns.
