Lets Talk Ulitimate QT

chicago · Nov 29, 2016

So I have been talking about this on another thread but thought perhaps this warranted a review by many. Here is what I have been doing.

15 day treatment.
I have a 60 gallon vat in my mechanical fish room so this might not be for everyone.
I keep a mix of 1.009 water in the vat. measured only by refracotmerters. not electronic ones.
I use two refractometers and calibrate with two different solutions.. NOTE must calibrate at 35 not fresh water reading of 0.00
Fish from store go into 20 gallon rubermaid plastic vats. salinity reduced to 1.009
heaters and airstones are rotated as well.
no rock or substrate. only some pvc pipes that are also rotated.
each day the water is changed. prevents ammonia build up and insures process of TTM for ick
During the course of 15 days they are treated with Actraflavin.
During the course of 15 days there are two treatments of GC with is metro and Prazi.
so.
Day 1 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 2 TTM HYPO 1.009 and General Cure (metro and Prazi)
Day 3 TTM HYPO 1.009 and General Cure (metro and Prazi)
Day 4, 5, 6 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 7 TTM, HYPO with one hour dip of Actraflavin before moving to new tank
Day 8 TTM HYPO 1.009
Da7 9 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 10 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 11 TTM HYPO 1.009 and General Cure (metro and Prazi)
Day 12 TTM HYPO 1.009 and General Cure (metro and Prazi)
Day 13 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 14 TTM Hypo 1.009
Day 15 TTM Hypo 1.009 with one hour dip of Actraflavin before moving to new tank
Thereafter observe and being to raise to Display tank salinity.

All equipment is rinsed after use in scolding hot water and is rotated in a manner that it is not used until 48 hours later after it is dry. Yes I have a lot of 10 gallon tanks and 20 gallon rubber maid vats and heaters ect.

Do we see any problems with this.? I do changes on daily basis as doing it every other day or third day I had ammonia issues.

Ocelaris · Nov 29, 2016

I would use bleach for sanitizing, scalding hot probably won't kill everything (my assumption).

Brew12 · Nov 30, 2016

chicago said:
So I have been talking about this on another thread but thought perhaps this warranted a review by many. Here is what I have been doing.

15 day treatment.
I have a 60 gallon vat in my mechanical fish room so this might not be for everyone.
I keep a mix of 1.009 water in the vat. measured only by refracotmerters. not electronic ones.
I use two refractometers and calibrate with two different solutions.. NOTE must calibrate at 35 not fresh water reading of 0.00
Fish from store go into 20 gallon rubermaid plastic vats. salinity reduced to 1.009
heaters and airstones are rotated as well.
no rock or substrate. only some pvc pipes that are also rotated.
each day the water is changed. prevents ammonia build up and insures process of TTM for ick
During the course of 15 days they are treated with Actraflavin.
During the course of 15 days there are two treatments of GC with is metro and Prazi.
so.
Day 1 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 2 TTM HYPO 1.009 and General Cure (metro and Prazi)
Day 3 TTM HYPO 1.009 and General Cure (metro and Prazi)
Day 4, 5, 6 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 7 TTM, HYPO with one hour dip of Actraflavin before moving to new tank
Day 8 TTM HYPO 1.009
Da7 9 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 10 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 11 TTM HYPO 1.009 and General Cure (metro and Prazi)
Day 12 TTM HYPO 1.009 and General Cure (metro and Prazi)
Day 13 TTM HYPO 1.009
Day 14 TTM Hypo 1.009
Day 15 TTM Hypo 1.009 with one hour dip of Actraflavin before moving to new tank
Thereafter observe and being to raise to Display tank salinity.

All equipment is rinsed after use in scolding hot water and is rotated in a manner that it is not used until 48 hours later after it is dry. Yes I have a lot of 10 gallon tanks and 20 gallon rubber maid vats and heaters ect.

Do we see any problems with this.? I do changes on daily basis as doing it every other day or third day I had ammonia issues.

Am I seeing this correctly that you only do 1 tank transfer which is on day 7?

Ocelaris · Nov 30, 2016

TTM is tank transfer method, he's transferring every day. That's basically my plan except not that low on hypo, and I've used formalin instead if acriflavin (not sure they do the same thing). The devil is in the details, basically for ttm to work you have to bleach and let dry for 24 hours any time any water touches a piece of equipment.

That's a ton of water, what kind of filtration do you have on those systems? I would just improve your filtration. I use a Sponge filter with air pump that's been in my sump for a week and haven't had any issues. I'm assuming it's different tanks each transfer or it makes the whole thing null.