ich removal

[boreddome]

so this morning i noticed ich on my sail fin tang. there where about 12 little white dots on his fins and his gill area. i took him out of the tank first thing and put him in a 10 gallon tank i had laying around.hes not a big sail fin right now btw.
so i read a little bit about marine ich and i read it dies around 50 degrees or about as high as 100 degrees. so could i just put my fish in another tank treat them with a copper treatment and my main tank could i just take out the heaters and do a 50% water change of freezing cold water and not keep the specific gravity above 1.014 to kill the ich in the tank in a couple days?

btw i have only 2 peice of live rock and about 50 pounds of base rock i added only a month ago so it wont bother me if the live rock bacteria dies or not.

 

[MrTuskfish]

Please read the ich stickies at the top of the disease forum. None of the methods you mention make any sense to me; there is no easy to gt rid of ich and all the fish that are with the tank need to be treated as well. Sorry, there are no shortcuts.

 

[bdroddy]

Dude, I wish it would have been that easy. Mrtuskfish is right. Leave Dt fallow at least 8 weeks, I'd go 10-11 weeks just make sure. As for treating it, I chose cupramine over hypo so read up on how to use that.

 

[snorvich]

Dude, I wish it would have been that easy. Mrtuskfish is right. Leave Dt fallow at least 8 weeks, I'd go 10-11 weeks just make sure. As for treating it, I chose cupramine over hypo so read up on how to use that.

Exactly. When using cupramine (or any copper medication), be sure to test every night at lights out with the copper test from the vendor you are using.