Hello I have a 190 gallon reef tank fully stocked. 25 fishes. I bought a powder blue tang from divers den and did not quarantine it. So now my purple tang .powder blue .kole tang .fox face .royal gramma and red velvet wrasse have ich. I have a 40g quarantine tank set up now with a chevron tang and 6 anthias being QT. i know the ideal situation would be to take out all fish. Get a qt big enough for them all and treat in qt tank will display stays fallow for 10-14 weeks. But as of now I sort of do not have the space or oppertunity to get a 75g qt tang. This ich has been going on for about 4 weeks. All fish do eat. Sometimes powder blue is not interest in seaweed but he will eat it. What would you guys suggestions be for me to do now? Tnx a lot for help
190g reef tank fully stocked and now ich
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CoralsAddiction
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190g reef tank fully stocked and now ich
If you have space get a 5 ft 100 gallon used tank and make it a QT. Or keep the fish you really like and paid a lot of money for. Donate the rest to a fish store. They will treat and sell them.
If you have space get a 5 ft 100 gallon used tank and make it a QT. Or keep the fish you really like and paid a lot of money for. Donate the rest to a fish store. They will treat and sell them.
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Thanks for the response guys. I picked a 40g breeder tank. I will donate my kole tang my fox face to Lfs. Main fish I would like to keep alive is purple tang. Melanarus wrasse. Re velvet wrasse. Royal gramma. 2 clowns. Yellow watchman goby.will that be ok in a 40 g for couple weeks. I might add a powder blue in the qt as well
You will need to treat these fish (copper or CP) and keep them out of the display tank for 72 days.
tylersarah
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40 gal and all those fish...what about something larger from Craigslist?
Ok so I'm going through my fish now. Powder blue has died. I'm donating kole tang/foxface/coral beauty/royal gramma to my LFS. this is the fish I am keeping. purple tang/melanarus wrasse/red velvet wrasse/2 clown fish/pink spotted goby/ cleaner wrasse.
I have a 40g tank I am setting up for permanent qt. I am planning on catching all these fish transfer to sump and when all caught start tank transfer method on them. I will pick up 2 20 gallon tanks or 2-10 gallon tanks. I will do the whole 14 day process. Does this seem fine any suggestions?
I have a 40g tank I am setting up for permanent qt. I am planning on catching all these fish transfer to sump and when all caught start tank transfer method on them. I will pick up 2 20 gallon tanks or 2-10 gallon tanks. I will do the whole 14 day process. Does this seem fine any suggestions?
Also I'm reading different time frames for fallow. Some say 6-8 some say 10-12 weeks. Which one is most accurate
Steve you said fallow for 72 days which is 10 weeks. In you stickyys it says 6 weeks. Seems like the time frame fallow tank gets longer for example from 2006 to 2014
Steve you said fallow for 72 days which is 10 weeks. In you stickyys it says 6 weeks. Seems like the time frame fallow tank gets longer for example from 2006 to 2014
Chief Reef
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this is due to there Potentially a being a few "freak" (Cysts? one of the stages of the ich lifecycle anyways.) that hatch later than the rest, snorvich actually has a few really informative stickys on why the timeframes vary. i suggest reading those and deciding what fallow time is best for you.
I believe 9-10 weeks is where its around 99% and is what most people aim for, for peace of mind. Though i believe its been stated somewhere in those stickys that as few as 6-8 weeks will get the majority.
pyithar
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ich cycle can go as long as 72 days. it's very rare but it could happen. so fallow the tank for 10 weeks just to be on the safe side.
Ok well bad news guys. I set up a 20 gal for TTM. Salt was mixed for 48 hours salinity and temp the same as display tank. So this morning I transfered my purple tang/red velvet wrasse/goby/melanarus wrasse/2 little clownfish. I put them in at 10:00am. I put them in and added ammonia detox I added some melaflex and some stress coat. I went on a trip and came home at 3:30 pm and found that my red velvet was 100percent dead. My purple tang and melanarus wrasse 75 percent dead laying on their side and my 2 clowns very weak hanging near floor. So I panicked and out purple tang and clowns and melanarus back into the QT tanks had set up. Purple tang is dead and melanarus is 90 percent dead now. I tested ammonia with a salient test kit came out no ammonia. What happened?what did I do wrong?
Your issue sounds like it may be similar to mine, which is in this thread:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2465198
In my case, the fish initially seemed fine on the first transfer, even eating after a couple of hours, but things went downhill fast after that, with serious problems the following morning. For lack of a better term, it may be a case of 'new salt syndrome' which seems to occur from time to time based on feedback to my thread. I'm curious what brand of salt did you use for mixing up the TTM water?
In terms of answering your question, I don't know if you did anything wrong! Based on the vast majority of posts I've read about TTM, what you did should of worked fine. Your experience and mine may also be unrelated and caused by some other unknown factors. However, if you don't have ich-free DT water to use for TTM, then you probably want to age the water even longer than the 48 hours, as responses to my thread indicate longer aging can reduce the occurrence of 'new salt syndrome.'
I used IO REEF CRYSTALS. The water mixed for 48 hrs and than sat in the tank for about half a day with a air stone in it
So much for my theory! Not sure what shocked your fish. Have the other fish recovered?
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