how long to wait for a fishless tank after ich?

[pelochas]

thats a great idea. just keep a small bowl on the corner with some food for the sand sifter.

thanks

 

[jimmyj7090]

"couple of days??????????

dude, its been four days for me and i still have no water in the tank. what a mess, its taking me too long to find a tank, check the tank for leaks, find asnwers to questions. i still need to figure out what i can afford to buy or get for biological filtration. only thing i got to spare is a canister filter. i bought the copper med kit and test kit. tonite i will have no time for any advancement to set the qt tank. it sucks knowing that im racing againts time while my blue tang is getting a little more of ich every day. i beleive my large yellow tang may have it. "

I was just trying to make the point that keeping the display fallow for 8 weeks is really no imposition when you consider the time it takes to treat the fish. I said a couple of days, thinking you already had some sort of QT set up on hand. (Honestly, I was spacing out when I posted and didn't realize you still had fish in the display)

I would suggest that you move as quickly as you can to set up a Qt, because once you do, you'll still have to catch the fish.

I can't offer any advice re: feeding the blennies, I just don't know.

best of luck

 

[Miamireefer]

Triggerfish...Thanks for the replies on the points I was asking about but as you can see from your answers as well there is NO definite explanation as to the remains of ich in a tank.. I have heard of many people hypoing all their fish and qt-ing them over 1.5 months and they stil manage to have some kind of minor outbreak.

To many mixed explanations and everyone swears by their method to be the truth. Thanks again man for your help and insight and I am going to wing it with my clown in there and see where I get after 1.5 months. Any new addition will be Qt-ed so I can get the fish healthy with a good nutritional diet and monitor for any illness. If by the second fish addition I see something wrong then both fish will come out but I don't want to stress my clown as it is of chasing it around to catch and drop in a qt if she is doing great now.

BTW regards to the tang dying 2 days after being in my tank could have been a result of the ich already being present on it from the LFS along with possibly being stressed by my eel. My sfe didn't want to seem to let it be..kept poking around to see who the new addition was and the tang didn't seem to be to into his barging in. If it was velvet I would have expected my clown to be easily taken over and decimated no questions asked whether it is healthy or not. I have heard alot more horror stories on velvet than ich any day of the week.

Nick

 

[Triggerfish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8515115#post8515115 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Miamireefer
you can see from your answers as well there is NO definite explanation as to the remains of ich in a tank..

"I have heard of many people hypoing all their fish and qt-ing them over 1.5 months and they stil manage to have some kind of minor outbreak."

hey Nick... my responses were direct to your inquiries but generalized.
in regards to the specific situation you mention above, I can give you many definite/plausable explanations where that could or would likely occur.

However, for definite explanations you would need to provide all the details of quarantining and tank conditions as they were prior to the minor outbreaks being noticed.
there could be a dozen reasons why that happened..to narrow them down, the exact situation and protocols attempted would need to be scrutinized for any potential flaws.. this parasite has been known to be extremely resilient. I uncovered many flaws in my proceedings for eradication, and to no surprise, have been able to sustain a viable c.irritan population for over 1.5 yrs.

provide some details if you wish....
i soon will be in the test mode to begin the "ich free" verification process.

 

[crázy clowntang]

If you do copper or hyposallinity treatment in a qt tank, the chemicals from the treament wonÃ"šÃ‚´t affect the display tank once you introduce the treated fish right?

 

[Freed]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8394813#post8394813 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Freed
OR use copper on them in hypo.

What I meant was OR use copper on them in QT NOT use copper on them IN hypo. Performing copper AND hypo at the same time will kill the fish. Sorry for any confusion.

 

[jdieck]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9560308#post9560308 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by crázy clowntang
If you do copper or hyposallinity treatment in a qt tank, the chemicals from the treament wonÃ"šÃ‚´t affect the display tank once you introduce the treated fish right?

If you do copper on a Q tank the fish can be transferred back to the main with no problem.
Just insure no water from the Q tank is transferred. Even more at the end of the tratment start a regme of water changes to the Q tank to remove as much of the copper as posible then transfer the fish only. Again insure no water is transferred.
If yo use hyposalinity you need to slowly increase salinity back to the normal level before transferring the fish.

 

[crázy clowntang]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9561939#post9561939 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jdieck
If you do copper on a Q tank the fish can be transferred back to the main with no problem.
Just insure no water from the Q tank is transferred. Even more at the end of the tratment start a regme of water changes to the Q tank to remove as much of the copper as posible then transfer the fish only. Again insure no water is transferred.
If yo use hyposalinity you need to slowly increase salinity back to the normal level before transferring the fish.

Ok thanks, I was just wondering cause if I do cooper treatment I want to make sure none of it going back to the main tank .

 

[jdieck]

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