Fish sickness help.

[Colin Gilboy]

I have a few fish that are sick and don’t have a quarantine tank, im treating one for fungus and had just realized that my powder blue now has ick, could I treat the tank for both at the same time or would that become more harmful to the other fish around

 

[mtdaly85]

I'd set up a quarantine tank. The most effective treatments for ick are not reef safe. Not saying its impossible, but you are fighting an uphill battle.

 

[Crabs McJones]

If you have ich, all fish need to be moved to a quarantine tank and treated and your tank needs to sit fallow for 76 days to kill off all traces of ich. Quarantine tanks dont have to cost a fortune to setup. A tank, heater and filter are all you really need. Never ever treat in your display tank. Long term itll come back to haunt you.

 

[HotRocks]

It depends on what you are treating with currently and how you want to treat for ich.

The best way to do it is as suggested above utilizing a QT.

Can you post pics of the sick fish so we can take a look?

 

[Colin Gilboy]

Thank you too all that replied. Ran out and set up a QT, set it up, running cupramine in the tank.