Ich while training...

[NJS7x7]

Well I now have an ich outbreak in the middle of training my Scooter Blenny, whose rather thin, to eat something other than frozen brine shrimp. The question is do I complete until he eats mysis, roe, and/or pellets; or do I move them all to a hospital and start treating for ich with the risk of added stress and the scooter's already unruly eating habits?

 

[kmbyrnes]

IF you have ich in your DT, the only proper course of action is removal to QT and let the DT go fallow for 72 days.
If I may ask, why are you trying to make him eat anything other than his natural diet?

 

[snorvich]

If I may ask, why are you trying to make him eat anything other than his natural diet?

Because the OP tank is not sufficiently large to naturally maintain this fish.

 

[NJS7x7]

Well have everything to setup my hospital tank tomorrow. Was considering doing a a copper treatment, but does anyone know if Scooter Blennies can handle copper? I've read that mandarins can't.

 

[thegrun]

IMHO the tank transfer method is the safest way to go, but after the twelve days of the TT, you still need to keep the fish in quarantine until 72 days have passed without fish in the display tank.