I disagree I have a Regular Cleaner Wrasse that is over a year old and is very healthy eating flakes and keeping my tangs ick free. I also have a red sea cleaner wrasse that I had for almost 2 years and it only eats brine and flakes. so it depends on the individual fish.
Tim
I disagree I have a Regular Cleaner Wrasse that is over a year old and is very healthy eating flakes and keeping my tangs ick free. I also have a red sea cleaner wrasse that I had for almost 2 years and it only eats brine and flakes. so it depends on the individual fish.
Tim
Thank you, the way people were making it sound I thought I was the only one that had a cleaner wrasse for sometime.We should flush ours because they will eventually die LOL, Guess people here are fast to judge and make a broad comment on a fish because of thier bad experiences or information they read on the net, and also make sarcastic comments just because they were given a forum title. What happened to accepting ones own experience. Guess me and you must be doing something right or not to keep these cleaners alive.
Freshwater dips usually cause the fish undue stress and the fish then later will die. To make a statement suggesting to do a FW dip without adding that temp and pH must match exactly is irresponsible and where it may be clear to you it may not be clear to others. ( :shhh:FW dips are useless in my meager experience and usually cause more problems than they cure.) Like Marrone stated cryptocaron can live in freshwater for quite some time, and as I have read it can live longer than the fish in FW. Your best bet is to feed garlic extract in the fish food you use, and maintain perfect water pa5rameters if you don't plan on removing all of your fish to a hospital tank and treating with copper in that tank. NEVER TREAT THE DISPLAY TANK unless you only want fish from now on. ALWAYS QUARANTINE NEW FISH. This is the best way to keep from getting these diseases in your tank.
Note the only way to be sure that your tank no longer has Ich is to remove all fish to a hospital tank for a period of 4-6 weeks and leave the display tank fallow(fish less) for that period of time.
Cleaner wrasses can also catch ich and usually take some time to get eating, I'm not expert, but everything I read before coming into the hobby and currently read now say that cleaner wrasses survivability rate in captivity are poor and that they are for advanced aquarists. To suggest to someone whom you have no idea their experience in the hobby is irresponsible and careless.
The vast major of Cleaner wrasse die within very short period, even when eating. Some do last for a year or so but most don't. This is a fact and not some made up Sh*t. Also there is no proof that keeping Cleaner wrasse, or for that matter Cleaner shrimp, will keep a tank free from ich and lets not forget that Cleaner wrasse can and do come down with ich themselves. And remember Cleaner wrasse aren't the only fish that clean parasites, many Angels, Wrasse and Hogfish also perform cleaning function, especially when small.
As for "flushing our fish", well if you try and use methods that don't have much chance of working you're basically wasting time in trying to cure your fish, which increases it chance of dying.
It's great to go by your own personal experiences but a lot of time things work out for other reasons that what you set out to do. I suggest you do some reading yourself before you jump to conclusions about whether people are right or wrong.
the mis-information here is frightening.
here's some good reading on ich
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-10/sp/feature/index.php
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/marineich.html
Thanks for the information about the cleaners and because only a few of us have managed to keep them alive, nobody should buy them and the reason is because people have lost them and the books say so. Maybe you can suggest some readings for me?
So basically what your saying is that if you quarantine prior to placing fish in a display tank and it worked marvelous for you and your friend did the samething with of course your supervision (all parameters in the display were perfect, would not expect otherwise), but the fish still got ich. Then I assume it would not be safe to suggest quarantine. Thats basically what your saying about my suggestions. Come on, get real.
This place is ridiculous. Maybe this should be a forum with just moderators \experts. Peoples opinions and suggestions are judged to quickly.
This is just silly.If I suggest that you put your fish on an open flame assuming that will cure ich and the person does that, who was irresponsible towards the fish's death? No need to answer, I'm done.