jeremyjoslin
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I've never used proper QT methods when introducing new fish... that decision has come back to bite me... hard.
Over the last few weeks, I've lost 70% of my livestock to marine ich. The surviving fish look well now, but are certainly still infected. As is the whole tank with cysts everywhere, I'm sure.
My plan is to remove the remaining fish into a treatment tank, and let my display with LR and corals sit fallow so that the ich cannot continue the life cycle and die off.
To make things super complicated, my house is on the market, and I'm looking to move in the next 4-6 weeks. Building a hospital tank is not really a viable option during a time when I'm trying to condense and sell off equipment, etc.
What would be great is if someone in the area has a hospital tank where they could hold my fish, treat them with copper, and then discharge them back home to me after I move (or just buy them and heal them, and keep for yourself?).
Fish:
- medium yellow tang
- medium flame fin tang
- medium blue hippo tang
- small/md ocellaris
- tiny yellow goby
My inverts would stay in the tank here (since they don't allow life cycle to continue by parasitizing them).
Of course, anyone else with a better strategy is welcome to pipe up. My grander plan is to split my 6ft 125g mixed reef into a 75 corner tank with coral and a 180g predator/tang FOWLR tank once I move. I utilize 150g of basement sumps and refuges which I'll continue.
Over the last few weeks, I've lost 70% of my livestock to marine ich. The surviving fish look well now, but are certainly still infected. As is the whole tank with cysts everywhere, I'm sure.
My plan is to remove the remaining fish into a treatment tank, and let my display with LR and corals sit fallow so that the ich cannot continue the life cycle and die off.
To make things super complicated, my house is on the market, and I'm looking to move in the next 4-6 weeks. Building a hospital tank is not really a viable option during a time when I'm trying to condense and sell off equipment, etc.
What would be great is if someone in the area has a hospital tank where they could hold my fish, treat them with copper, and then discharge them back home to me after I move (or just buy them and heal them, and keep for yourself?).
Fish:
- medium yellow tang
- medium flame fin tang
- medium blue hippo tang
- small/md ocellaris
- tiny yellow goby
My inverts would stay in the tank here (since they don't allow life cycle to continue by parasitizing them).
Of course, anyone else with a better strategy is welcome to pipe up. My grander plan is to split my 6ft 125g mixed reef into a 75 corner tank with coral and a 180g predator/tang FOWLR tank once I move. I utilize 150g of basement sumps and refuges which I'll continue.