My display tank got infected with ich for 4 months after 6 pakistan butterfly were introduced. I start to treat the fish and tank with REEF SAFE products but seems thing get harder and harder. I have failed to keep Pakistan butterfly for 4 times, they would be suddenly appreared the white spots over the body within a few days and the body start to suppurated beneath their scales and heavy breathe at the surface and ending with sinking to the bottom with 12-24 hrs. I can believed that it as such a dangerious protrozoa can do with the host.
It's not a joking for lossing all of fish within 5 days also spend more and more for the medicine that claimes as Reef Safe or Ich cure which never do the good job in my tanks. In QT tanks, I low the level to 1.009 and speed up the life cycle of ich by increasing the temperature to 81-82 F but seems thing always too late. ( This mostly happened with Butterfly fish )
Then, What should I do with the new arrived fish in QT tanks and how long or at least timing for keeping them in the QT tanks, espcially, Butterfly species.
It's not a joking for lossing all of fish within 5 days also spend more and more for the medicine that claimes as Reef Safe or Ich cure which never do the good job in my tanks. In QT tanks, I low the level to 1.009 and speed up the life cycle of ich by increasing the temperature to 81-82 F but seems thing always too late. ( This mostly happened with Butterfly fish )
Then, What should I do with the new arrived fish in QT tanks and how long or at least timing for keeping them in the QT tanks, espcially, Butterfly species.
