SaltISlife
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So ive done hypo. Copper. Tank transfers. Qt up the wahooo for years. And frankly. Ich always come back eventually.
One issue is i have fish too sensitive to hypo and copper so i have to do tank transfer on them. Which works. While i do this the others go in hypo. Which also works.
But the problem is with over 90 now corals and 4 tangs and 10 other fish i simoly cannot just take all those fish and stuff them in a 60g hexagon. Or stuff my corals in the hexagon. They wont fit. And i have no room in the house for another 100+ gallon tank to house them in.
I have done the coral move once before and did hypo right in the main tank. It works. But it litterally stalls my tank and coral growth for months snd i mean months after the fact. Not to mention losing corals due to them being 1.4 of an inch apsrt being stuffed.
I mean my bubble coral is bigger than a basket ball how am i gonna fit that with 89 other now large colonies in a smaller tank. My 135g is already stuffed.
Plus doing hypo or copper for longer than 4-5 weeks fish start feeling the effects. Their skin erodes in tiny patchs like HHLLE. They get MAJOR lymohocystis and skin infections follow from the lymphocystis.
It happens everytime. Hypo works copper works but it cant be used for 76 day fallow periods.
If i take them out of hypo or copper after 4 weeks. Some ich cysts in the sand survive hense 76 days and it comes back slowely over 5+ months time.
Im frankly tired of doing this. So i decided to remove my powder brown tang. The main culprit and it worked. I saw no more ich on my fish and decided to live with it. Been 1 year now but its back.
I knew it would be. But its only showing up on two of my dwarf angels and my yellow eye kole tang. No one else really gets it UNTIL the main infectors keep producing more and more and more parasites and overload the tank.
Hense the powder brown who was removed.
So my question is this. Should i just remove the main ich carriers again ? Treat them. Wait till the parasite load drops in the tank again. And reintroduce them?
Ive been doing this long enough to know that there is just no real way to get rid of ich. Especially if you have the amount or size of fish and corals i have and have no tank equal in size to treat them in.
What i really need is two 100+ gallon tanks. Treat the fish for 3-4 weeks. And move them to another serile tank this way ich is gone and i can raise salinity to house the fish for the remaining fallow period. Because i simply cannot treat em for 76 days its too hard on the fish. If i stop treatment whatever cyst in the sand that survived and didnt hatch yet. Will hatch.
So yea what would you guys do ?
One issue is i have fish too sensitive to hypo and copper so i have to do tank transfer on them. Which works. While i do this the others go in hypo. Which also works.
But the problem is with over 90 now corals and 4 tangs and 10 other fish i simoly cannot just take all those fish and stuff them in a 60g hexagon. Or stuff my corals in the hexagon. They wont fit. And i have no room in the house for another 100+ gallon tank to house them in.
I have done the coral move once before and did hypo right in the main tank. It works. But it litterally stalls my tank and coral growth for months snd i mean months after the fact. Not to mention losing corals due to them being 1.4 of an inch apsrt being stuffed.
I mean my bubble coral is bigger than a basket ball how am i gonna fit that with 89 other now large colonies in a smaller tank. My 135g is already stuffed.
Plus doing hypo or copper for longer than 4-5 weeks fish start feeling the effects. Their skin erodes in tiny patchs like HHLLE. They get MAJOR lymohocystis and skin infections follow from the lymphocystis.
It happens everytime. Hypo works copper works but it cant be used for 76 day fallow periods.
If i take them out of hypo or copper after 4 weeks. Some ich cysts in the sand survive hense 76 days and it comes back slowely over 5+ months time.
Im frankly tired of doing this. So i decided to remove my powder brown tang. The main culprit and it worked. I saw no more ich on my fish and decided to live with it. Been 1 year now but its back.
I knew it would be. But its only showing up on two of my dwarf angels and my yellow eye kole tang. No one else really gets it UNTIL the main infectors keep producing more and more and more parasites and overload the tank.
Hense the powder brown who was removed.
So my question is this. Should i just remove the main ich carriers again ? Treat them. Wait till the parasite load drops in the tank again. And reintroduce them?
Ive been doing this long enough to know that there is just no real way to get rid of ich. Especially if you have the amount or size of fish and corals i have and have no tank equal in size to treat them in.
What i really need is two 100+ gallon tanks. Treat the fish for 3-4 weeks. And move them to another serile tank this way ich is gone and i can raise salinity to house the fish for the remaining fallow period. Because i simply cannot treat em for 76 days its too hard on the fish. If i stop treatment whatever cyst in the sand that survived and didnt hatch yet. Will hatch.
So yea what would you guys do ?
