Sick Fish in Large Aquarium

[chriscummings83]

I am very curious how in a large aquarium, you treat fish that are sick. I have 1 clown, 1 yellow tang, 1 blue hippo tang, and flame angel. The blue hippo got sick, milky eyes, bumps on the bottom of the fish, and ich on the fins. I pulled the flame angel and blue hippo and dosing life guard in 10 gallon tank.

Now my yellow tang is starting to get the bumps on the stomach. I have been feeding with focus and metro from seachem. Can I put all 4 fish in the 10 Gallon? I thought it would be over crowded and kill all 4 fish? Is this true?


How would you if you had a large tank and 20 fish. You can't catch them all, and you wouldn't be able to quarintine them either. Please help. Been feeding focus/metro with food for 6 days, and the yellow tang is getting bumps and both cleaner shrimp have been all over him the last 3 days.

Chris

 

[waynem]

For a big tank IMO the only option you have is to use a quarantine tank before you add the new fish.

Good water quality, food, and low stress might help speed up the recovery part.

 

[chriscummings83]

so is there anything I can feed to take care of this?
Can I put all 4 fish in the same 10 Gallon tank?

 

[waynem]

Copper is all you do with the white spot, you cant use that in your main tank.

I would not put all the fish together. Can you get a cheap tank? even a bucket would be fine?

 

[wayne in norway]

You'd work with the situation. If you have a few fish with a total value of several 1000 it suddenly looks a good idea to get a used 250 gallon koi vat and put it in the garage and treat there. Something like that.
You should get on the local ads and look for someone selling up and selling an old 40 or something. You need a bigger treatment tank, but it doesn't have to be primo quality, just holding water is enough. You'll need a filter as well of course

 

[chrisqueenz]

How big is your tank?

 

[BonesCJ]

sig shows it as a 76

 

[chriscummings83]

My concern was I am going to be adding a lot of fish, so that I can start building around a 500G tank.