Some quick questions regarding ich!!! please help.

[td3025]

my blue tang has ich, although none of my other fish do, I feel as if I must treat them all for it. Here are my questions:

1. what is the least stressful transfer method to get my fish from my display tank to my quarantine?

2. what is the best treatment? only my tang has any signs of it, like i said.

3. what filter should I use in my quarantine tank? I have a few spare ones on hand from past tanks such as a small aqueon, a corner filter, and a spongefilter. Should I invest in a better filter such as a fluval for the quarantine tank or will a spongefilter or one i mentioned work ok?

4. should my quarantine tank be bare bottom? should I put some live rock in there or no?

5. Can i add my fish the day i set up my quarantine tank if I use water from my display tank? Or should I not? I am setting up my quarantine tank tonight. I only had a 10g tank set up for quarantine but since im going to put all 4 fish in there and one of those is a very active tang, i am going to get a 29g tonight.

6. if my tank is fish only with live rock, it is still not okay to treat the display tank, right? I am extremely short on cash and space for another tank, if there was any way to treat my display tank, it would be so helpful. but i understand it shouldn't be done.


My tank is a 70 gallon and like I said FOWLR. All my fish act healthy, eat great, are very active and are not rubbing against surfaces or any normal behaviors seen with ich. Only symptom is of course seeing the ich itself on my tang. I only have 4 fish. 2 chromis, 1 ocellaris clown, and a blue hippo tang.

 

[td3025]

I don't know how to delete a thread and I don't want to be posting too many questions so I'll just add on to this one....

please leave advice for I think my fish may be dying


I went ahead and transferred my blue tang into a 20g hospital tank. I wanted to do this quickly, so I ran to the store to grab supplies. The store I went to happened to be the place I work since I get discounts there, and we were out of premade saltwater. Because of this filled I filled 50-60% of the hospital tank with water from my DT. Then added some more water with slightly lower salinity because I read that hypo-salinity is one treatment for ich. Since my tank was at a high salinity (1.027) I didn't want to immediately jump TOO far down, So i lowered it to 1.020.

In the hospital tank I have a marineland penguin 150, a 50w heater preset to 78 degrees, and a hiding spot for my tang. The tank is barebottom.

HERE IS WHY I THINK MY TANG IS DYING!
I did a quick, ten second freshwater dip and my tang began to thrash around like crazy after 5 short seconds. After putting him back in the hospital tank he started breathing insanely rapidly, lost color, and kept swimming on it's side and laying flat for 10-20 seconds at a time. He started swimming a little better, found his way to his hiding place, and is now inside the hiding spot somewhat tilted instead of swimming upright and breathing at an insane speed and losing more and more color. He has been in the hospital tank for about 50 minutes now and his breathing has not gotten any better.

PLEASE leave tips on how to help this! I don't want to lose him, I really, really like him.