Moorish idol with ick :( advice welcome

[enjetek]

You bought the Achilles? Hopefully your pbt don't shred him up.

 

[bullitr]

My friend have the Achilles and it was doing great on his tank.
I was supposed to add one in my tank but I change my mind so I sold it to him.
This was not planned but I couldn't pass up a eating, fat and well adopted moorish idol.
But this is a lot of work!!!!!
After this QT is over Hopefully I will not add more tangs or large fish except more leopard
Wrasse


also added some herbtana since I have a gallon on it from the killing spree last year.Hopefully he does great good night

 

[bullitr]

Update
The little guy has less ick today and still eating like a champ
This guy is a

It seems like he is responding well from lowering the salinity and herbtana




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[bullitr]

The moorish idol is almost ick free
Lowering salinity from 1.20 and herbtana works great .
Its a bitter sweet because I will not add him on my main tank.


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[pinnatus]

So, where ya gonna put it?

 

[sandwi54]

The moorish idol is almost ick free
Lowering salinity from 1.20 and herbtana works great .
Its a bitter sweet because I will not add him on my main tank.


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"ich free" means the ich has just fallen off the fish to reproduce, and when the reproduction is done, it'll come back 100 times worse. Please read the ich stickies in the fish disease forum to understand the life cycle of marine ich (cryptocaryon irritans). herbtana is really just snake oil; lots of people tried it and most fail. there are no known "reef-safe" medications for ich. The only scientifically proven treatments are copper, hyposalinity, and tank transfer.

since you have the MI in a QT now, it's very to eradicate ich and don't waste time and money with "reef-safe" medications. Cupramine is very easy to use in a QT and very effective against ich. don't risk not curing the MI and introducing ich into your beautiful DT.

 

[sandwi54]

Beautiful tank by the way! I really like your tank.

 

[bullitr]

"ich free" means the ich has just fallen off the fish to reproduce, and when the reproduction is done, it'll come back 100 times worse. Please read the ich stickies in the fish disease forum to understand the life cycle of marine ich (cryptocaryon irritans). herbtana is really just snake oil; lots of people tried it and most fail. there are no known "reef-safe" medications for ich. The only scientifically proven treatments are copper, hyposalinity, and tank transfer.

since you have the MI in a QT now, it's very to eradicate ich and don't waste time and money with "reef-safe" medications. Cupramine is very easy to use in a QT and very effective against ich. don't risk not curing the MI and introducing ich into your beautiful DT.

Thank you
I had the worst battle with ick last year even with multiple attempt of 2 months of going fallow and 2 months of strict QT with cupramine with prazipro, the ick still shows up in the main tank.I know i still have ick in the main tank right now but it never concern me anymore because it's the stress than kills all my fish.

Herbtana might be snake oil but he is recovering nicely ...



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[bullitr]

He is still in qt but I wonder if he can be in 40 gallon breeder for few more months
Since so I can keep him to my smaller 150 gallon reef that I will set up later on.
He is only 2.5"/4" tall

 

[Curious George]

I like your tank. It's very nice. I would just get the copper going in the QT. If he is eating well, just hit him with Cupramine and bring the Cu up slowly to .5ppm.

You think you have ich in the DT that is under control now after a battle with it? But you know it is still in there, or think it is?

If the Moorish Idol looks clean and is eating well, why not just add him? I know it sounds irresponsible, but I am just thinking this through in terms of what you have mentioned.

If it were me, one way or another he would be getting copper for 30+1 week.