Help! Dying fish!

[Laurieo79]

So I will start at the beginning. I bought a manderin dragonet at lfs about a week and a half ago. He died on Tuesday. Afterwards I noticed my Goby was acting funny. I took in a water sample and everything was perfect. After closer inspection of fish I noticed a couple had some very small spots on them. I took a picture to lfs and they confirmed my suspicion of ich. Started treating on Thursday. Well tonight my goby was looking like he was on his last leg. A couple hours later I found him on top of tank glass not sure how he jumped up there. Now my blue tang looks like he's a goner as well. I have a maroon clownfish and a coral beauty angel left. Both are not showing any signs. Would you take those two to lfs and strip tank and start again? I'm scared to put anything else in tank even a few months from now.

Thanks

 

[Squared]

It would not be good for the LFS to knowingly take in fish infected with ich.

You need to set up a quarantine for your remaining fish, how were you treating the goby?

 

[Laurieo79]

Garlic extract and hypercure

 

[Laurieo79]

I didn't think ich kills that quickly

 

[racoloish]

How old is your tank? The mandarin could had died from not eating. Do you have a quarantine tank? If yes I would treat them there for a couple of week, maybe they don't show signs of ick but they can have it.

 

[Laurieo79]

I've had it set up for ten months. I bought it from someone who had it set up for 3 years. I have a 10 gallon. Will that be big enough?

 

[Squared]

that will not cure ich. never use garlic under the assumption that will cure any disease, all it does is entice a fish to eat

copper, hypo, and tank transfer are pretty much the only methods known to cure ich. being that angels are copper sensitive, I would go with the tank transfer method.

read this ---> http://atj.net.au/marineaquaria/3daytransfer.html

you can use prime to bring down ammonia

 

[eliramos]

you may have marine velvet its a much more aggressive version of ich from what I've read. you should really setup a qt tank. once ich is in your system it won't ever leave until there are no hosts left. i.e take em all out and treat them. i think it's something like 1-2 months before you can to let them back in your tank or so.
Good luck man!

 

[Laurieo79]

After I treat fish, how to I remove it from dt?

 

[evolved]

^ Let it run fallow (fish-less) for 90 days.