Ich
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SnoopyDaPimp
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Look at the top of the "New to the hobby" forum. You will see a thread about ich. It has a giant red flashing arrow below it.
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I got nothin'
The only way you can do it is to pull each fish out, put them in seperate QTs, TTM each one individually and leave the DT fallow for 9 weeks minimum.
From now on, exercise proper QT procedures and you won't have this problem again. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and especially holds true in this case. Prophylactic treatment would have been a heck of a lot easier on a single fish and now you have an entire tank full to deal with.
There is no way (zip, zero, zilch) to treat the animals together in the display tank.
I hope this doesn't come off as harsh. Not my intent.
PirateLove
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Perhaps I am lucky but I had a bad Ich breakout about 9 months ago. The 270g tank was 4-5 months old and had a 2 Heniochus butterflys, 2 clowns, 3-4 gobies, 2 Cardinals, and one fish that I cannot recall. I could not QT all of the fish so I made my own probiotic foods and saved all but one of the Hennies and the mystery fish. It took about 6 weeks but the ich finally died out. I think I could have saved the henny but he jumped through a very very small opening when no one was around.
I know I was too aggressive and my mistake was buying a henny that was too big for my QT tank. Since then I add only 1 fish every 2-3 months and now I am just one fish left (Mandarin) before I am done. Ich is an evil thing.
I know I was too aggressive and my mistake was buying a henny that was too big for my QT tank. Since then I add only 1 fish every 2-3 months and now I am just one fish left (Mandarin) before I am done. Ich is an evil thing.
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