Any Advice, Long Bout with Ich

[myersb33]

Hello, I've usually received nothing but helpful and friendly advice but this is obviously my mistake and has taken its own toll on me and I really am just not here for judgement just some new perspective. New to reefing relatively at 6 months recently and dealing with Ich in my 90-gallon reef tank. The first time was my blue tang infected by my gramma who both survived just fine. Exactly 51 days I began treating ich for the second time after unfortunately missing it on a new fish that was added that passed shortly after but went missing in the 120lbs of live rock inside. About 6 days ago I thought I had my first two clear days, and found that night two more spots and I'm now just patiently treating my tank with ich attack by Kordon. I understand I could try to remove the tang from my display however she is so fast it's hard to even get the good look at her I need to everyday. If anyone has any advice I'd thoroughly appreciate it. I've kicked my temp up ab 2 degrees and have raised my salinity slightly.

 

[MnFish1]

Hello, I've usually received nothing but helpful and friendly advice but this is obviously my mistake and has taken its own toll on me and I really am just not here for judgement just some new perspective. New to reefing relatively at 6 months recently and dealing with Ich in my 90-gallon reef tank. The first time was my blue tang infected by my gramma who both survived just fine. Exactly 51 days I began treating ich for the second time after unfortunately missing it on a new fish that was added that passed shortly after but went missing in the 120lbs of live rock inside. About 6 days ago I thought I had my first two clear days, and found that night two more spots and I'm now just patiently treating my tank with ich attack by Kordon. I understand I could try to remove the tang from my display however she is so fast it's hard to even get the good look at her I need to everyday. If anyone has any advice I'd thoroughly appreciate it. I've kicked my temp up ab 2 degrees and have raised my salinity slightly.

1. Raising salinity may be helping the 'ich' rather than hurting it, many people lower it.
2. You can and should use a fish trap most LFS have them for sale (or you can rent - or borrow - and they are easy to DIY also
3. Treating for CI in a display tank is quite difficult overall - and I thin there is some (a lot?) of debate whether Ich attack works.

So - to me the recommendation would be set up a treatment tank and use copper. Others would say feed well, maintain excellent water and wait it out - but - adding new fish could be problematic.

Also - if you remove the fish, many would recommend a 'fallow period' - for 76 days - with no fish (though there are different protocols for that as well).

Lastly - are you sure its CI thats causing the problem?

 

[Reef AquaCult]

only way is to go fallow if you have corals/inverts. if you have FOWLR then you can use copper but you cant ever add inverts or corals again. if you go fallow, then get an acrylic fish trap in amazon, put food in for 2-3 days and your fish will happily swim in for food. then off to QT and start fallow.