A couple questions

[Boiler13]

I have a few questions and decided to make just one post about them. Hopefully you guys can help me out. My tank is a 75 gallon tank with 6 fish and probably 12 corals/anemones. My calcium is 420, my alkalinity is 10 dkh, and my magnesium is 1420. I don't have any issues with nitrates or phosphates that I know of. I'm running g a protein skimmer and an algae scrubber and also dosing a small amount of vodka. 1 mL per day.

First question, I am running two reef radiance Led's and have them turned way down because I thought they were to bright. I think my whites are at 50% and my blues at 60%. I'm not seeing great growth in my corals, but they also aren't dying. Except my birdsnest. It is on the bottom of my tank because it was bleaching. That slowed it down, but it seems to still be bleaching.
Thoughts?

Next question. My yellow tang just came down with what I believe to be black ich. How would you recommend treating it? It is in my main display. I thought about getting a mandarin and qt it and get it to eat frozen food by tricking it. Throwing it in my tank and letting it eat all the worms that is affecting my tang. Would that work?

 

[redfishbluefish]

I would turn the blues up a bit more....but really you should be using a PAR meter to determine what PAR you're getting.

As far as the tang, I'd have to believe you'll need to set up a hospital tank and treat all fish while the DT sits empty of fish for a extended period of time....something like 75 days. I let @Humblefish , @melypr1985 and @4FordFamily give more detail on what to do.

 

[Boiler13]

I'm trying to find one to borrow. I don't have one myself that's the difficult part.

 

[Humblefish]

Black Ich can actually be treated right in the DT using Prazipro.

However, I recommend the OP confirm he is dealing with black ich by viewing the photos in this thread: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/black-ich-turbellarians.259912/

 

[SantaMonicaHelp]

I'm sorry to hear about your predicament. That's quite a lot of corals and anemones; would you mind sharing what they are?

- C. Smith

 

[melypr1985]

Next question. My yellow tang just came down with what I believe to be black ich. How would you recommend treating it? It is in my main display. I thought about getting a mandarin and qt it and get it to eat frozen food by tricking it. Throwing it in my tank and letting it eat all the worms that is affecting my tang. Would that work?

check the link provided by humblefish and to be sure it's black ick. Then treat it accordingly (explained in the link). Also, No a mandarin will not eat black ick off your tang.... it wont eat anything off your tang. It will only eat pods and a little frozen food if you succeed in training it to do so. I like how your thinking outside the box though!

 

[4FordFamily]

^^^ this, x3. Verify black ich and if so, prazi . Great advice thus far!

 

[Boiler13]

I wasn't saying eat it off the tank, but it does eat the worms from the sand if I'm not mistaken, which means eventually it would eat it all if the worms are constantly falling off the tank and then reattaching ever few days.