Lost_N_Space
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Hi all,
I have a reef tank and have just finished setting up the reef with the fish and corals I wanted. I didn't have an isolation tank when I started but looked carefully at the fish I bought. That didn't work and somewhere along the way Ich made it into the tank. I have a Turbo Twist 3x UV sterilizer for my 115g tank. I've also trippled the dose of Vital Reef DNA and have been doing daily water changes and the three scarlet cleaner shrimp are helping also. So far I haven't lost any fish but my powder blue tang is affected pretty bad but the (Paracanthurus hepatus) Blue Tang is far worse. I've tried fresh water dips but only for a minute and a half at most. The fish lays on it's side rather quickly doing the fresh water dips and I'm afraid to lose them by going to long. I have a 24g isolation tank but it won't hold all the fish so I'm forced to choose which fish will be in there. I also have a yellow tang, two tank bread clowns, an algae blennie, sand sifting blennie, a watchman gobbie, a dwarf lionfish and two spotted cardinals.
I honestly don't know what else I can do to treat this since I can't remove all the fish from the main tank. I've heard of hyposalenity which I can do in the hospital tank but again I can't keep all my fish in there. I read that you should remove all the fish from the tank infected for six weeks. I really need to know what else I can do to get past this. Any information or links would be a huge help. This is the second time I set up a reef tank. I lost the first one when I was out of town and we had a power outage and I didn't have a battery backup air pump. When we returned home late that evening, everything had died. I've now cleaned everything up, replaced some pumps, skimmer, external filter box and my lighting I has been upgraded metal halide. I didn't have any ich the first time I set it up but I do now and I really need some help on the best way to combat it.
Sincerely,
Brian K. Gamble
I have a reef tank and have just finished setting up the reef with the fish and corals I wanted. I didn't have an isolation tank when I started but looked carefully at the fish I bought. That didn't work and somewhere along the way Ich made it into the tank. I have a Turbo Twist 3x UV sterilizer for my 115g tank. I've also trippled the dose of Vital Reef DNA and have been doing daily water changes and the three scarlet cleaner shrimp are helping also. So far I haven't lost any fish but my powder blue tang is affected pretty bad but the (Paracanthurus hepatus) Blue Tang is far worse. I've tried fresh water dips but only for a minute and a half at most. The fish lays on it's side rather quickly doing the fresh water dips and I'm afraid to lose them by going to long. I have a 24g isolation tank but it won't hold all the fish so I'm forced to choose which fish will be in there. I also have a yellow tang, two tank bread clowns, an algae blennie, sand sifting blennie, a watchman gobbie, a dwarf lionfish and two spotted cardinals.
I honestly don't know what else I can do to treat this since I can't remove all the fish from the main tank. I've heard of hyposalenity which I can do in the hospital tank but again I can't keep all my fish in there. I read that you should remove all the fish from the tank infected for six weeks. I really need to know what else I can do to get past this. Any information or links would be a huge help. This is the second time I set up a reef tank. I lost the first one when I was out of town and we had a power outage and I didn't have a battery backup air pump. When we returned home late that evening, everything had died. I've now cleaned everything up, replaced some pumps, skimmer, external filter box and my lighting I has been upgraded metal halide. I didn't have any ich the first time I set it up but I do now and I really need some help on the best way to combat it.
Sincerely,
Brian K. Gamble
