Ich and coral/inverts

[bigfruits]

Hello,

I removed a small flasher wrasse from my QT into a 5gal bucket to cure it of Ich using the tank transfer method.

In the infected QT there is a halloween hermit crab, nassarius and a few soft corals and zoas.

Assuming there are tomonts riding on the crab and snail shells and live rock rubble the coral is attached to, do i need to keep them in the QT and keep it fishless for 72 days or do I have any options to move anything to established tanks?

Will coral Rx kill the tomonts that might be on my coral frags?

Thanks in advance,
-Z

 

[ThRoewer]

They will have to be isolated until all cysts have popped. This may be after one week, 6 weeks or 11 weeks. Since there is pretty much no way to tell when the last one has popped you better keep all those inverts isolated in a fishless system for 3 months.

Coral Rx does nothing against ich cysts.

Soft corals are usually not a good settling ground for ich cysts, so the coral itself is likely fine. Unfortunately soft corals usually come attached to rocks which are prime settling grounds for ich.

 

[bigfruits]

Thanks, I figured as much when I added the inverts.

Do you have any pictures of your jawfish biotope?