Argg! Treating for ich, Bangaii with eggs...

[Jeremy Maley]

I am removing all of my fish from my main 60 gallon tank and treating them in a 25 gallon tank for ich. These fish include 3 green chromis, a flame angel, a yellowtailed damsel (which I might not put back in the end), and a pregnant pair of bangaii cardinals. I have already lost a royal gramma and a blue atlantic tang to this parasite in the last week. Now, I don't want interrupt the male bangaii and his mouth full of eggs but I have to treat the other fish. Here is my plan, I want to know if this sounds like it will work. I want to move the female bangaii to the quarantine tank with the other fish and treat her with them, but move the male into a 10 gallon by himself. Then allow him to hatch the eggs and spit them out before moving him to the quariantine treating him also which should be around 13 days from now. Can the pair be seperated while he is carrying eggs? I know not to net him because he will spit the eggs out. Is that too long to wait before treating him? Can he be treated while carrying eggs? I haven't seen ich on either of the bangaiis but I wan't to treat them anyway. I feel like i shouldn't leave him in the main tank because the ich will attack him when the other fish are gone. Think this will work?

 

[byrdman81]

personally i would save the fish and forget the eggs. Its a pain to get them to survive unless you have done it before and have done alot of research, plus they will have more batches in the future.

 

[billsreef]

Yes you can separate him from the female. In normal circumstances it's good separate the male to allow him to recover from carrying the eggs. In this case, I'd worry more about clearing the ich than this batch of eggs. They'll breed again However, if you really want to try and salvage this batch, I'd go with that 10 gallon and treat with hyposalinity.

 

[Jeremy Maley]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14254899#post14254899 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by billsreef
Yes you can separate him from the female. In normal circumstances it's good separate the male to allow him to recover from carrying the eggs. In this case, I'd worry more about clearing the ich than this batch of eggs. They'll breed again However, if you really want to try and salvage this batch, I'd go with that 10 gallon and treat with hyposalinity.

Thanks for the suggestions. How low do you usually go when you use hyposalinity?

 

[billsreef]

For hypo, you need to maintain the salinity between 1.010 and 1.009. It's fine line, so you need to have a lab grade hydrometer, refractometer or conductivity meter. The el cheapo floating glass hydrometer and plastic swing arm ones aren't accurate enough.