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tmkx3

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I have a pbt that has ick. I don't really have a qt. I have a 30g tank that currently has 2 goldfish in it. I also have an empty 10g tank. I am thinking about moving the goldfish to the 10g and using the 30g for hypo. My question is, is the 30g to small for all my fish? I have 2 perculas, 3 green chromis, a coral beauty, and a foxface. The other fish don't have any signs of ick only the tang. From what I have read I have to treat all the fish and leave the main tank fallow 8 weeks. Will this be to crowded for all the fish for 8 weeks?
 
30 gallons should be fine for a Powder Blue but not for all of your fish. 55 gallons would be more ideal for all fish but also add multiple powerheads as well because the Powder Blue requires higher flow rates, even in QT. I have a Powder Blue Tang who recovered 110% from Ich and is now very fat and healthy. I placed my Powder Blue in a 29 gallon bare bottom quarantine aquarium. This aquarium was equipped with a Maxi Jet 1200 power head, Red Sea Prizm Skimmer, 15 watt UV light w/ Mag 3 pump and a 100 watt heater. I performed 3 gallon water changes every three days. I used hyposalinity treatment for 6 weeks at 1.010ppm salinity. It took me a about five days to reduce the salinity from 1.025 ppm to 1.010ppm (go slow to not stress the fish). It also took me another week to gradually increase the salinity back to normal levels, so the fish stayed in the quarantine tank for a total of two months. It is very important to use a refractometer to measure salinity levels and also to check pH daily and add buffer, when necessary ( I used Kent Marine SuperBuffer dkH). I also maintained the temperature at a constant 82 degrees. As for food, I attached a lot of green algae seaweed to PVC pipe connected by rubber bands daily. I also fed the fish Formula One mixed with frozen brine shrimp soaked in Selcon and Kent Marine Zoe (liquid vitamin complex) daily as well. In the meantime, the system I returned the Powder Blue tang to remained fallow for two months, which is highly recommended to make sure Ich is no longer present in your main system. I hope this information is helpful. It worked very well for my Powder Blue Tang.
 
I have a neighbor that is gonna let me barrow a 55g for the treatment. Should I put the tang in the 30g and the other six fish in the 55 or put them all in the 55? I know maintaining 2 tanks will be a pain but will it help the water quality? I have an hob filter on the main and I also have a prizm that has floss in the basket. Will this be enough materail to seed the 2 qts? Did you only have the one fish in your main tank?I also feed formula one and I feed the seaweed stuff too. I started soaking the food in garlic yesterday and fed it last night and the tang had less spots this morning. I also added some vitamins today.
 
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I have a neighbor that is gonna let me barrow a 55g for the treatment. Should I put the tang in the 30g and the other six fish in the 55 or put them all in the 55? I know maintaining 2 tanks will be a pain but will it help the water quality? I have an hob filter on the main and I also have a prizm that has floss in the basket. Will this be enough materail to seed the 2 qts? Did you only have the one fish in your main tank?I also feed formula one and I feed the seaweed stuff too. I started soaking the food in garlic yesterday and fed it last night and the tang had less spots this morning. I also added some vitamins today.

In my 115 gallon SPS frag system, I only have one fish, a Powder Blue Tang. In my other 120 gallon system, I have a Mimic Tang, two Clowns, a Royal Gramma, a Mandarin fish and a Green Clown Goby.

If you can pull it off, I would definitely recommend placing the Powder Blue Tang in a separate quarantine tank. This fish requires high flow rates (so add a few power heads) and high water quality , which is hard to maintain if you have other fish in the same quarantine system. Powder Blue Tangs respond well to Hyposalinity (but do not do well with Copper treatments). If you do hypo, definitely purchase a Refractometer to measure salinity levels.
 
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