back when I got my first 2 fish, I didn't know better and didn't quarantine them. 3 years and several fish down the line, I had an ick outbreak. This is in a 125. I succeeded in catching one of the affected fish, put him in my quarantine tank, and he died by morning. since then I've been trying to figure out the best course of action.
I now have 2 ocellaris clowns, a 3 inch blue tang, and a firefish. The firefish never showed any ick and the other 3 fish all had it and appear to have come through it - have looked fine for several weeks.
I know that to ensure ick is out of the tank, I need to get these guys out for 4-6 weeks. I know it's going to be a huge pain in the butt to catch the fish and am resigned to taking rocks out - am hoping I can partition off the tank and only take out the rocks on the left side but we'll see.
my questions:
1. my Q tank is 10 gallons. Can I use this tank to house and treat the 4 fish listed above? or is it too small? if it's too small, would it be possible to put the tang in a separate 10 g tank, or does it need something larger?
2. copper or hyposalinity? from what I've read I'm leaning toward hyposalinity as safer & harder to screw up - is this right?
3. if I want to treat them with hyposalinity, what should the sg be when I first put them in the treatment tank? should I wait to reduce it at all until they're in there?
4. what do people think of the barbless hook method of catching fish, or traps? worth trying before I tear apart all my rocks, or no?
I now have 2 ocellaris clowns, a 3 inch blue tang, and a firefish. The firefish never showed any ick and the other 3 fish all had it and appear to have come through it - have looked fine for several weeks.
I know that to ensure ick is out of the tank, I need to get these guys out for 4-6 weeks. I know it's going to be a huge pain in the butt to catch the fish and am resigned to taking rocks out - am hoping I can partition off the tank and only take out the rocks on the left side but we'll see.
my questions:
1. my Q tank is 10 gallons. Can I use this tank to house and treat the 4 fish listed above? or is it too small? if it's too small, would it be possible to put the tang in a separate 10 g tank, or does it need something larger?
2. copper or hyposalinity? from what I've read I'm leaning toward hyposalinity as safer & harder to screw up - is this right?
3. if I want to treat them with hyposalinity, what should the sg be when I first put them in the treatment tank? should I wait to reduce it at all until they're in there?
4. what do people think of the barbless hook method of catching fish, or traps? worth trying before I tear apart all my rocks, or no?
