Help Needed

[ArmyReefer]

Okay, I will admit that I played with fire and got burned horribly. Along with my Reef Tanks I keep a 200 gallon FOWLR tank. I have never been overly concerned with quarantining fish for that tank as I would always just run copper if I saw anything and never had an issue. That is until the lovely ladies in my life wanted a bamboo cat shark. Knowing that I can no longer use copper I bought CP in case there was an issue to use in the display. Well an issue popped up and had an ich (so I thought) explosion in my tank. I bought a 75 gallon tank to quarantine the shark and treated my display with copper. Things got worse, turns out it appears I got flukes for sure, and I believe velvet. By the time I recognized it I lost almost all of my fish that I have had (some of them) for years.

I will never never never make the same mistake again.

Now comes my question.

I have three fish that seem unaffected. A 7 inch green bird wrasse, a harlequin tusk, and a niger trigger. Should I take them out, run the tank fallow for 76 days, or can I treat the tank at therapeutic levels for 76 days to ensure everything is killed off? I am not understanding why I would need to take them out and treat them and run the tank fallow, but I am sure I am missing something. Any help would be appreciated.

Space in my house is limited, but I should be able to house these fish in the 75 gallon with the shark, Although not ideal. These are all big fish and I cant set up multiple 40 breeders inside my house, and In Florida garage is out of the question.

 

[ArmyReefer]

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Hello,

sorry about the losses, always difficult to go thru. To be sure you have the remaining 3 in the 200 and the shark in a qt. Have you decided on a plan yet, sorry for the delay.

I cant help disease, some should be around tonight. #reefsquad

 

[Mjrenz]

The reason you would want to run the tank fallow is to starve out the parasites, with the exception of uronema, the parasites that plague our fish cannot survive past 76 days without a host. A good place to start would be with a freshwater dip to confirm the presence of flukes, with that information you'll be able to better plan your treatment.

Freshwater Dip

Freshwater Dip What It Treats – Provides temporary relief for a wide range of diseases: 1) Marine Velvet Disease (Amyloodinium ocellatum) 2) Brooklynella hostilis 3) Uronema marinum 4) Flukes (Monogeneans) 5) Black Ich (Turbellarians) Can be used to confirm the presence of Flukes (see video...

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[JumboShrimp]

When back on the learning curve, I had to go fallow three (3) times in the same tank due to Velvet and later Ich. It’s clearly no fun! But I have also Nuked the tank (FOWLR) with CopperSafe successfully as well; but not for 76-days... that sounds kind of rough on the ‘cancer patients’ (fish) .

Hope things work out for you.