about to tackle ich

[greydog]

i'm new to the hobby and my tank has been struck by ich

i've been reading a lot on the subject and wow there are a lot of medications, tricks, rituals, opinions on this problem. from all my reading (most informative article being http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php) it seems the most successful treatment is with hyposalinity or copper. thus i will try hyposalinity, but i'm hoping to get some additional tips or review of my steps below before i dive in.

i have a 90g reef tank with live rock, corals, inverts. i have 3 remaining fish, a bicolor blenny (which is showing signs of ich) and 2 leopard wrasse. rest of the fish died to the parasite. this is what i'm about to do:

1) get a qt tank, fill it water from my display tank (or new water?) and move the 3 fish there.

2) treat the qt tank by hyposalinity (or copper/formalin)

3) let the display tank fallow for 6 weeks (long enough to let the parasite cycle and die)

4) place the 3 fish back in display tank

5) qt all new fish in future for 4 weeks before adding to display tank

did i miss anything?

 

[flameangel88]

I would:
1) fill with new water and add a couple of live rocks (for filter and shelter).
2) I just went thru this in the DT and used Seachem Cupramine
3) some say 8 weeks to be safe.

 

[limitdown]

I prefer cupramine. I grab a small sack of ceramic rings from my sump for biological filtration in the QT. That sack goes into the trash after i'm done with treatment.
If you use cupramine with live rock, then I wouldn't put that live rock back into your display.