Please advise me

[mnash]

I have a 90 gallon tank with live rock and corals. I have two clowns, two reef chromis, a blue hippo tang, and one two spot sand sifting goby. All was good in my tank until I added the goby. My tang now has ich (i think) and I have done some research. I think that I will treat it with hyposalinity for one month. None of my other fish have ich as of now but I will take them out of the DT for one month also. Should I treat the uninfected fish in the hypo tank or should they be in a seperate tank? How will I feed the goby if I am not supposed to have sand in a QT tank? Will he die? Do I have to Qt every coral that I buy for one month to make sure that it doesn't have ich? What should I do for a filter on my hypo tank since it cant have live rock? My last question is wether I should use my 29 or 10 gallon tank since they are both empty.



Sorry for the ich question and the long post:

Mike

 

[kevin2000]

My 02

If one fish has ich then you should assume all fish have ich (whether they show signs or not).

With that many fish I would use the 29 gallon tank .. the ten is too small.

Heres a good link discussing how to QT using hypo.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=288805

As far as QTing corals .. some do .. many don't. Many QT corals for a shorter duration than fish and there focus is not necessarily on ich but some of the other nasty critters that corals can introduce into the tank. If you purchase corals from vendors that don't keep fish in their coral tanks that should reduce/eliminate the risk of introducing ich on corals.

Hope this helps.

 

[Gwynhidwy]

I agree with what Kevin2000 said. I recently bought a sand sifting goby. He/she is currently in QT and eating despite the lack of sand and natural food. He/she eats Hikari Marine S pellets, but so far hasn't been interested in anything else that I've offered.

I've been debating over whether or not to quarantine EVERYTHING that I put in my display too as I recently had my first outbreak of ich. Because the only thing that I had added in several months was a coral, I suspect that a cyst(s) hitchhiked in on the coral.

Definitely use the larger tank or possibly both. Most people use a hang on the back filter or sponge filter in QT.