how to treat a display tank?

[95accord]

how do you treat a display tank?

once fish are in the QT tank....what can you do to cure the display tank besides just letting it sit and starve the infestations out?.


any additives for ick or white velvet in particular?

 

[Kevin1000]

To my knowledge the only effective method to "cure" the display tank is to leave it without fish for about six weeks.

 

[paulamrein]

I agree with Kevin there is no reef safe medication. For the medication to work it has to kill, The manufacturers can make any claim they want to they aren't regulated and they make millions of dollars off of ich and velvet. I wouldn't put anything in your display, leaving it fallow works better than any treatment you could find anyway.

 

[95accord]

well i only have a FOWLR tank......

i was also wondering about clean-up crew? would leaving them in the tank be ok? or would they need to go as well?

 

[paulamrein]

the medication would "kill" your LR. Anything that is not fish can stay in the tank. They only hitch a ride with inverts they can't live off of them

 

[Pescado Racing]

I agree no meds in display and leave the inverts. Your FOWLR would quickly become FOWR. Wait it out, try and boost your fish in qt with garlic extreme/ vit. C.

 

[95accord]

cool thanks for the advice

 

[jmicky41]

I'm in the exact same boat with my FOWLR. Fish came down with ich and the "reef safe" medication did not work - in fact the fish got worse. So I set up a 20L hospital tank to treat the fish with hyposalinity and left everything else in the display tank. So far so good, the fish are looking better. Now that the display tank is fishless I have an opportunity to do some major re-aquascaping and clean up.

 

[95accord]

what do you need to set up a good QT tank? im in the procss of building mine right now....

do you add LR/LS? or is it bare? filters? power heads? etc? any key to sucsess to a good QT tank?
thanks

 

[Freed]

Check out my interests line in my sigature. No live rock, live sand in QT. PVC for hiding is a good choice.