75 gal quarantine

[spsrookie]

Hello all. My 75 gallon reef has ich, and need some advice.

I am upgrading to a 180, and will be moving all of my coral and live rock to sit fallow for 3/months.

While that's happening, I plan to use the 75/ there in now to copper the fish..

What can go in 180 new display other than rock and coral, shrimp, snails?

Lastly, the 75 which is established now, will be absent of all the existing sand, rock and coral.

Everything else will stay in tack, minus the skimmer , will my biofolter be enough for 9 small fish? I am removing alot of the surface area (rock, sand) for copper, but will there be enough bio filter on glass, sump, overflows etc? I can leave the sponge pad in from the sump?


Someone suggested to nuke tank with bleach to kill ich then treat, but if I'm running copper for atnleast 8 weeks, that seems risky/pointless.

Thanks

 

[kmbyrnes]

You can move anything that is not a fish to the 180, once the tank has cycled. If you leave it fallow for at least 72 days, you can guarantee there will be no ich.

You don't say how many/ what size fish are in the 75.

What will you be doing with the 75 after you get done treating for ich?
If you are just going to tear it down anyway, you might consider another course of action. If you remove the live rock and sand, you are removing the majority of your biofilter. In a tank that size, the foam filter and other objects are not going to have enough bacteria to keep your parameters in place.
If you are going to keep it running, you can't have any rock/sand in the tank while you are treating with copper.

 

[spsrookie]

The tank would come down and be gone.

I would be moving cycled rock.and coral to new tank, where I shouldn't have to feed any with no fish, so I shouldn't have ammonia.

The fish range from a 1 inch Xmas wrasse, to a 3 inch purple tang