Please Help Need disease control ASAP!

[Jonathan G.]

K here's the scenario. I have had a 75g set up for a little over a year and at the end of january i made a mistake and let my friend by a fish and it had ick on it. Well I have a reef tank set up so instead of setting up a quaritine i just got some kick ich thinking it would work for sure. Well it didn't and actually the ich came back 10fold. so here i am with 2 O. clowns, a powder brown tang, a purple diadema, green clown goby, an orange shoulder tang, lawnmower blenny, 6 line wrasse, pajama cardinal, and a green mandarin. by the end of the treatment with the kick ich i lost the diadema, green mandarin, and the clown goby... and everything else was either looking real bad or like it wasn't even phased by the ich. well this was when i decided to set up a quarintine. i had to do a water change so i took the water from the change and set up a quarintine and let it run overnite with my penguin filter in it. i put rocks in it not even thinking the copper will kill off the live rock... is that a bad move for a quarinitine or will adding a little live rock rubble matter? i put some in the back of my filter too. well anyways i had a 20 gal running with lr rubble and i took out the remaining fish, I performed a freshwater dip with ro water and then placed them in the quarantine and then went to bed... hint:catching the fish at nite is easier then the day
Well i woke up and my pajama cardinal, and the powder brown kicked the bucket. the other fish seemed healthy for a few days and then they one byone started dying. i was treating with a chemical my friend gave me, i think it was nox ich or rid ich... something like that. but i think it was too late by the time i set up the quarantine and fw dipped them, for some reason or another the kick ich didnt phase the ICH.

Well the reason for this long thread, and if your still with me god bless you and thank you i appreciate it, but it has been about 4 weeks since the holocaust and i so i went out and bought some chromis and a sailfin and about a week later here it is again. i have my quarantine still up and so i put them in it right away and am now treating with seachems paraguard... was recommended by a couple lfs. they are too spoked to eat much right now but im gonna try the garlic diet but other then that can anyone give me advice? like how long can they survive in the quarantine? how long till they can go back into my main tank? what can i use as filter media for my quarantine? is there anything else i can do to treat ich? thank you soo much if you beared with me through this ill try to post some pics of my tank and my fallen soldiers.

 

[Jonathan G.]

my pics are too large of size to upload

 

[Mish]

Bottom line, ich can live 6-8 weeks without a fish to host on. Soooo you need to keep your main display void of fish for at least 6 weeks. You need to look at treatments that work either hypo, or copper. You will have trouble with the bio filter, be prepared to do 50% water changes everyday. I would recomend algone. http://www.algone.com/ to help with this. Remove any live rock in the hospital tank as it will die in either treatment.

I am currently treating for ich with hypo, so this is what I suggest from expirence. Do a lot of reading on ich, so you understand what you are up against, and good luck.

 

[jbvdhp]

from what i understand, the "reef" environment is the BEST environment the fish could live in. taking them out, dipping them in FW, then placing them in your QT probably stressed them out a whole lot more than if you were to leave them alone and let them fight it off by themselves. the problem with that is people get too frantic and freak out too easy at the first sign of ich. i bought a six line from someone who had it QT'ed for over a month. sounds bullet proof right? when i dropped that guy in my tank, the next day, he grew ich almost out of no where. i let him fight it off, and now he's cool. the ich did get to my blackcap and i saw it on the pygmy angel i have (so the six introduced it) but they all seem to do well. they eat like mad (food with garlic and vitamins) and they got over it in a few days (less than 3 days or so). we all know ich comes and goes, especially with stress, so why stress the fish more by moving them , dipping them, dropping the salinity, etc etc? i dunno. things work for certain people, and some things don't but the "Reef" environment we have created for our fish is the best thing they can be in. let them deal with it. they don't have chemicals in the wild for them when they get ich...

 

[jbvdhp]

good luck btw...i'm sure you'll get thru this and the new additions you'll have will be fine =)