Fish Are dying! please help

[ToolmanDan]

OK. to start I have a 90g, g4x skimmer, 25w emp. auq. uv, 2 circ. pumps, 2x150mh and 4x39w t5's. Water is good, i keep it at 78-79deg. i have a small range of corals. and my fish keep dying off..one at a time. i started with 3 percs..2 bengi..yellow tang..powder blue tang..2 fire fish. now i have a yellow tang with a tiny bit of ich, the powder is infested.. and the fire fish look great. everything else is gone. now what am i going wrong? I do 15 gallons a week.. ro/di water with reef crystals. I tried the kick ich and that didnt do crap. I just dont know what to so and would like some help. Thanks for all the help.

 

[boilermaker1]

Get them out... like, now. Treat the fish in a separate tank/container with copper as the bottle directs, leave display fishless for at least 9 weeks.
There really isnt another way.

 

[b0bab0ey]

I'm assuming you used "kick ich" because this is a reef tank. If so, your only option is to move ALL your fish to a separate QT, and treat them with copper (I use Cupramine) or hypo. Leave the DT fishless for 8 weeks to starve out the Ich in there.

 

[kingfisher62]

How long has this tank been established?

 

[aquaph8]

Read this:

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[Curious George]

It sucks man. I am going through the same thing now. The quicker you get them into a QT (Hypo or Copper) the better the chance of saving the remaining fish.

I feel for ya brother.

 

[ToolmanDan]

Ugh. i was trying to avoid the whole other tank but its looking like it is my only option. I will get one going within a cpl days. and the tank has been running and established for 4 yrs. but within the last 3 mnths i have turned it reef. before it was groupers and triggers. Thanks guys for all the input!

 

[snorvich]

Get them out... like, now. Treat the fish in a separate tank/container with copper as the bottle directs, leave display fishless for at least 9 weeks.
There really isnt another way.

Yes. I agree. Might read the sticky at the top of this forum on ich.

 

[snorvich]

Read this:

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What he said.

 

[MrTuskfish]

I agree with all of the above. From now on, use a QT on all new livestock and you'll never go through this again. If you don't, you will. All the SW books, magazine articles, web sites, etc. that constantly push using a QT really do know what they're talking about. Sadly most hobbyists (including me) learned the hard way.