My tank most likely has ich...now what?

[easye123]

Well unfortunately, after setting up my 90g in the bast 3 or so months, my fish are not doin well. Im starting to think I added fish to early, and all that. I had a Kole tang die, dont know how though but for about a week he was like white.
Then this morning I woke up and my potters angel had died.

Now my powder brown tang is showin detailed signs of ich, and hes not movin around to well.

All my corals, sps and lps are doin perfect.
my tests are

ammonia-0
nitrates-0
nitrites-0
ph 8.2
dkh-8
calcium- 400
phosphates-.2
salinity-1.024

Should i try to take my fish out and put them in different buckets and get power heads and a heater in each of them. and try something.

If my fish all die and ich is in my tank, how do i get it out. I hope theres a way to get it out or wait, without having to tear down my tank.

I hope theres awaya this can all work out, i just have never had to deal with a tank this big and stuff.

Happy New YEar

Evan

 

[blakeoe]

i was in the same situation you are in about 4 weeks ago. After allot of research on here i decided to get rid of all my fish and let the tank sit fishless for 6-8 weeks. The ich will die in that time frame without a host. This i felt was the best option for me b/c my tank was doing fine other than the parasites and you cannot treat your reef with hypo or copper. It also gives all the pods and stuff time to populate without being eaten. Since you still have fish if you can not find a way to get rid of them you could take them out and set up a hospital tank and treat them with either hypo or copper. I don't think it would do any good to put each fish in a seperate bucket. I would just set up a tank big enough to house all of them. since it is not permanent it doesn't need to be huge or have crazy filtration like the main tank. I have a quarentine/ hospital tank setup to quarentine anything going into my tank from now on and its a 20 gallon with a cheap walmart H.O.B filter, a heater, and some sponge i took out of my main sump.
It certainly sucks but i look at it as a learning experience. Now i will quarentine EVERYTHING that goes into my tank. if their are any corals, hermits, shrimp, alge or anything you want i would get it now so you'll have something to look at while you are fishless and you have to start the time over if you add ANYTHING new to your tank. and you wont have to quarentine it later. Hope this helps.