Help with Ich treatment.

[PicassoDan]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/tank-transfer-method.192655/

Do you have a link to a good how to? Always good to keep in the back pocket. I’ve gotten conflicting advice about that too

 

[Marie7]

Unfortunately I lost my helfrichi Firefirsh last night to ich after a long battle, last night they appeared much worse than usual, being practically covered in white, and this morning before school I found that they had died overnight and the cleanup crew had done their job. However now I'm worried for my clownfish, who is now the lone fish in the tank, all this time she has seemed not to be infected, but recently she has seemed a bit sluggish, but she still is very active and eating a lot of the medicated food that I used to try to help the ich situation.
With spring break coming up next week and a big trip planned for my family I'm worried that something will happen to her while I'm gone, as I won't be able to feed and monitor her as closely as I would like, would anyone be willing to give me some tips?
I don't have a qt system set up but this weekend I'm going to do a big cleaning on my tank and maybe buy a system to set up for treatment.

I love the fact that you are not giving up, this hobby has it's ups and downs at times, hey is a chance we take having life on a tank full of water, just give a good cleaning and do a good water change as well, I have learn that the main key here is periodically water changes, be careful when buy new stuff for your tank and fishes as some times they come infected already from a regular pet shop, I will look for a reef place where the changes are lower of getting an infected fish or vertebrae.

 

[ngoodermuth]

Oh. Glad I asked lol. I’ll have to look into that copper tester. I paid $50 for a copper test kit and it sucks! What a waste of money. Thx for the link. Yup. Velvet. I’m so screwed. I’ve got fish and inverts in DT w Velvet, a fish in QT w Flukes, and a fallow other QT waiting out flukes. Looks like I’ll neer another tank now. Plus I have a freshwater tank. My place is starting to look like my LFS ‍[emoji3601]

I would put the inverts from your “fallow QT” into your display and just let that run fallow. 6-weeks will get ride of flukes and velvet, and they won’t be effected by the fish parasites so it’s fine to combine them.

Then you can treat your fish for velvet in the tank they were in. Or move your “flukes” victim there instead if you were hoping to keep that one copper-free. Just might need a bucket or two while you swap them around

 

[Mariette]

I would put the inverts from your “fallow QT” into your display and just let that run fallow. 6-weeks will get ride of flukes and velvet, and they won’t be effected by the fish parasites so it’s fine to combine them.

Then you can treat your fish for velvet in the tank they were in. Or move your “flukes” victim there instead if you were hoping to keep that one copper-free. Just might need a bucket or two while you swap them around

That’s exactly what I’ve decided to do. Except I’m going 3 mths fallow on the off chance it’s ich not Velvet. So, once fish are treated and done w copper, I’m gonna make the QT nice and homey for them. Not the bare bottom mess they’re unfortunately going to have to endure for the duration of the fallow period. Poor guys.

 

[Mariette]

That’s exactly what I’ve decided to do. Except I’m going 3 mths fallow on the off chance it’s ich not Velvet. So, once fish are treated and done w copper, I’m gonna make the QT nice and homey for them. Not the bare bottom mess they’re unfortunately going to have to endure for the duration of the fallow period. Poor guys.

So I’ve got my DT going fallow for 3 mths w all my inverts in there

A bare bottom QT w 4 fish which are getting treated w copper for velvet or ick

Another small bare bottom QT w 1 fish going hypo for Flukes.

Wish me luck!!!