What to do when Ick is in your DT...

[rort]

I have QT all of my fish. After 4 weeks of QT and even using small amounts of copper, my PPufer came down with Ick in my DT and has now passed it on to my Fox Face. I currently have a Tomini Tang still taking up my 10g QT but I have purchased a 20g QT to eventually switch over to.

What is my best thing to do? Take the puffer and foxface out and put them together in the QT and treat together? Wait till the Tomini is cured... and then treat separate?

Any and all help would be awesome!

Thanks guys!

 

[limitdown]

You'll need to treat them all at the same time, or else it'll just be a merry-go-round.
Get the larger QT and put all of your fish in there and treat for 6wks using Cupramine at 0.5mg/liter. Test the concentration often and make sure it stays at 0.5mg/liter. If the concentration is lower, then you're just wasting you time.

 

[kevin2000]

My 02

The best method to insure you have an ich free DT is to remove all fish (whether they show signs of ich or not) and treat them in a QT with either hyposalinity or copper. If you let the DT go "fishless" for about 5 weeks any ich within the DT should die off (ich need a fish to perpetuate their life cycle).

 

[dones20]

is this a reef tank or fowlr if its fowlr i would treat the DT with fish and all with copper safe not cupramine unless the fish are easily removed in which case i would remove and qt in a sufficiently sized tank and a 10 gallon is not really recommended

 

[rort]

I have purchased a 20g and that looks like it will be able to hold a few of the fish.

Dones20, the tank is FOWLR but it does have a lot of inverts that i use to help in cleaning the tank.

I have been using Ruby Reef but that is just keeping it from spreading to other fish.

I will easily be able to catch the puffer, and the false perc, but the foxface, midas, and 2 firefish will be extremely hard.

I am hoping to get this QT set up this weekend!

I will post some pics soon!

thanks

 

[dones20]

make sure to put a few peices of liverock in the qt NOT PVC pipe....

 

[rort]

I have been told to do the complete opposite???

 

[biger]

The live rock is for bio filtration. You need it or some kind of filter material from DT for bio. I keep some kind of sponge or filter material in my sump/refugium just for this purpose.

 

[rort]

That is exactly what I do. I have a couple of back up sponges in my fuge ready to switch to a filter in my QT if i need to.

I was told that LR has been shown that it can keep ick alive through hyposalinity.

 

[biger]

OK, that is good enough. I think all dones meant was to get some kind of biological filtration for QT.

 

[limitdown]

Ich in LR will die in hypo.

The sponge filter might be enough. If not, the use some LR.

I have a few small sacks of ceramic rings in my sump that I grab for the QT whenever I have new fish. After QT/treatment, I just toss out the rings. They're cheap and disposable.