I think in the end it comes down to your personal preference. Remember, that if you use copper in your new tank you will have to remove it before re-adding inverts/coral. I believe that ich can be spread by droplets - more likely is through equipment, thus the 10 foot rule However, if you're treating with copper in one tank the ich should be gone. Without fish in your display (while it's fallow), ich will die either way. I think the 10 foot rule is more important in the situation where let's say you have a display tank with fish, and then have a new fish that you want to quarantine. In your situation you will be treating all of the fish - so IMHO, the rule is somewhat less important.Ouch Okay, at least I know what I'm working with
Yes, so I ordered the copper and hanna checker already. I can get the ball moving on that. I've dissected the sticky and watched an absurd amount of videos on qt and treatment this week lol
Would a stock tank (Horse trough) make the most sense for this? This is the part I'm struggling with most. Or is best course getting a 40 breeder/55 something like that and then treating them inside of that AND keeping them there after medicating? The hardest part of this would be the actual location. I read (Not sure if sticky or just randomly online) that the tank has to be 10ft+ away from infected tank, ideally in separate room. That part is tough. Is Ich REALLY airborne? or is this a safety measure to avoid cross contaminating water ?
So the hard part with this is I'm already due for this upgrade.. But staying the course is probably best. Or getting the new tank and putting it where rubbermaid stock tanks would go. It's so hard for me to rationalize all the struggle involved with both scenarios. If I get upgrade tank at least the fish will be golden after treatment and rock can begin to mature. So when I do move it's already ready and will just be waiting on coral dt to run through fallow period.
The treating in batches thing would be to ease off the current tanks bioload (Particularly to dial in how much nitrate/phosphate I'd have to dose while fallow) and to ramp up the new tanks bio filter to handle all these fish.
Once treated the fish would not be going back to the DT tank. It would end up going fallow after probably 2 rounds of treatment. Does that make sense or am I thinking too much about stability? (It's like being worried about a candle burning when the building is already on fire lol)
Really appreciate your time, thank you!!