Hello Everyone,
Need help!
I have a 4 inch Achilles Tang, Gem tang, and other fish listed below.
ALL the fish were eating fine, getting along, no fighting no stress.
Had the Achilles for 2 weeks and noticed Ich, in my 125 Gallon reef tank 7 days ago.
No signs of ich when I got him and he was eating.
Within 7 days I noticed a few spots day 1 to a lot more with days.
Started garlic, over feeding Mysis, anything I could find on the internet to try and get the fish healthy.
I also read that removing the fish would cause even more stress and to leave them in DT with the diet listed above.
The 2 inch gem tang, I found dead yesterday morning and decided that only a QT tank can fix this .
I pulled out all the fish yesterday, rid apart my tank that has been running for a year to catch them.
I bought a 55 gallon tank, hang on back filter with sponge only, air stone, heater, ammonia reader, put all the fish in and started a copper treatment. copper is at 4.25 to 4.5 ish, hard to read that colour strip chart.
My questions are the following and hope someone knows the answers to below,
1- After the 10 weeks of a fishless DT is the Ich gone?
2-Seachem label says 14 days of copper in QT, everywhere else I read it says to do it longer? True?
If so how long?
3-After all of that, 10 weeks, put fish back in DT, I don't ad anymore coral or fish to my DT will the ich be gone?
I mean will the ich be 100% gone for life!
Any other fish or coral from now on will be in the QT for min of 10 weeks, that Gem tang cost me $2,000.00 and only had him for 1 week!
Not sure if it was the Gem that introduced the Ich?
Other fish in QT, 4 small clowns, 5 chromis, 1 cleaner wrasse. 2 inch purple tang(that lived in the sump because of Gem tang was smaller)
Thank you for reading
Need help!
I have a 4 inch Achilles Tang, Gem tang, and other fish listed below.
ALL the fish were eating fine, getting along, no fighting no stress.
Had the Achilles for 2 weeks and noticed Ich, in my 125 Gallon reef tank 7 days ago.
No signs of ich when I got him and he was eating.
Within 7 days I noticed a few spots day 1 to a lot more with days.
Started garlic, over feeding Mysis, anything I could find on the internet to try and get the fish healthy.
I also read that removing the fish would cause even more stress and to leave them in DT with the diet listed above.
The 2 inch gem tang, I found dead yesterday morning and decided that only a QT tank can fix this .
I pulled out all the fish yesterday, rid apart my tank that has been running for a year to catch them.
I bought a 55 gallon tank, hang on back filter with sponge only, air stone, heater, ammonia reader, put all the fish in and started a copper treatment. copper is at 4.25 to 4.5 ish, hard to read that colour strip chart.
My questions are the following and hope someone knows the answers to below,
1- After the 10 weeks of a fishless DT is the Ich gone?
2-Seachem label says 14 days of copper in QT, everywhere else I read it says to do it longer? True?
If so how long?
3-After all of that, 10 weeks, put fish back in DT, I don't ad anymore coral or fish to my DT will the ich be gone?
I mean will the ich be 100% gone for life!
Any other fish or coral from now on will be in the QT for min of 10 weeks, that Gem tang cost me $2,000.00 and only had him for 1 week!
Not sure if it was the Gem that introduced the Ich?
Other fish in QT, 4 small clowns, 5 chromis, 1 cleaner wrasse. 2 inch purple tang(that lived in the sump because of Gem tang was smaller)
Thank you for reading