Ick treatment advice

[Carriegiesler]

I am pretty sure my new Percula clown has ick (Only been in tank 2days). Visiable in the morning disappears in the afternoon. Small white dots...however the fish is eating and swimming around fine.

Jill (the fish) is the only fish I have along with some crabs, snails, peppermint shrimp, live sand and live rock. All my test that should be zero are and my PH and salinity are where they should be.

Now I have read all the possible ick threads and have come to the conclusion I can treat the problem in two ways: Hypo Salinity or copper. Now here are my questions....

1. I have moved Jill to the QT do I treat Jill with the copper? And the DT with the Hypo process?

2. Do I need to treat the DT at all? Will she keep getting it if the DT is not treated?

3. Should I remove all of my inverts/shimp and do the Hypo process in the DT. Will this harm my live rock and sand?

4. Does the Hypo typically take 6 weeks?

 

[Slayer311]

First off, do NOT treat your display at all, hypo will kill off a lot of your inverts and have die off in rock causing another cycle, the best plan is to remove all fish from the display to a QT tank and allow the display tank to remain fishless for 6weeks, up to 8weeks if you want to be 99% sure its gone from the display. And many people have varried opinions on ich treating your fish. Many swear by copper I myself prefer to use it only if I have to, if fish is healthy and eating and active, I acclimate them to 1.009 salinity over 48 hours and allow ich to run its cycle and die off naturally as it is unable to survive in hypo.

 

[Carriegiesler]

Thankyou Slayer 311. I was a little unclear about what I was suppose to do with my DT. I have started the Hypo in the QT tank hopefully this will cure what ales her.