slief
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Having been in your situation early last year, I think you could be in for a bumpy ride. If you keep the effected fish in the DT, you risk most if not all other fish in the tank. If you can catch and remove the effected fish, that is your best bet in my opinion. Sure, you will stress him more by moving him but even if that one fish dies as a result, you are far better off than loosing that fish as well as many others.
If you can remove them all and keep the tank fishless for several weeks, that should solve the issue.
As I said, early last year, I had a powder brown tang that came down with Ich. After a couple weeks, my butterflys, clowns, other tangs, cardinals all came down with it. I tried garlic, special feeding with vitamins, reef safe ich treatments etc and in the end, I lost about 70% of my 40+ fish.. It was heart breaking as I did not have a QT tank at the time nor was it realistic to catch all the fish in my tank due to the aquascaping and the sheer size of my tank.
If you can catch them, I would strongly encourage it. You might get lucky and dodge a bullet but if you dont get lucky, you could pay a heavy price as I did. Of course the easiest way to treat ich is with copper however with a reef tank that is not possible in the DT. I was not willing to treat my tank with copper as I have close to 1000 pounds of live rock in my system plus the corals. It was a choice that I will live with and while it killed me to see those fish parish, the tank is fine now and those that survived are still with me and the replacement fish are all healthy.
You will get a lot of opinions here on the subject just as I did. One thing that is certain is that the odds of other fish getting it is pretty high as are the odds of ich taking out some of your fish if you dont do something about it.
Of course this is just my opinion based on my experiences.
Good luck!
If you can remove them all and keep the tank fishless for several weeks, that should solve the issue.
As I said, early last year, I had a powder brown tang that came down with Ich. After a couple weeks, my butterflys, clowns, other tangs, cardinals all came down with it. I tried garlic, special feeding with vitamins, reef safe ich treatments etc and in the end, I lost about 70% of my 40+ fish.. It was heart breaking as I did not have a QT tank at the time nor was it realistic to catch all the fish in my tank due to the aquascaping and the sheer size of my tank.
If you can catch them, I would strongly encourage it. You might get lucky and dodge a bullet but if you dont get lucky, you could pay a heavy price as I did. Of course the easiest way to treat ich is with copper however with a reef tank that is not possible in the DT. I was not willing to treat my tank with copper as I have close to 1000 pounds of live rock in my system plus the corals. It was a choice that I will live with and while it killed me to see those fish parish, the tank is fine now and those that survived are still with me and the replacement fish are all healthy.
You will get a lot of opinions here on the subject just as I did. One thing that is certain is that the odds of other fish getting it is pretty high as are the odds of ich taking out some of your fish if you dont do something about it.
Of course this is just my opinion based on my experiences.
Good luck!
