Ich help

[Uromastyx]

Hey all
I’m sorry to ask this question, as I’m sure it’s a constant one. I’ve unfortunately had an outbreak wipe out my fish in my reef tank.
few factors of lack of quarantine and my steriliser running out of bulb likely contributing. I somehow have a surviving two chromis and a zebra eel ( which seems to not be able to harbour ? Given lack of scales)
Should I remove all remaining fish and eel and wait 6 or more weeks or is it possible to continue to carry these forward and minimise stress of moving, before I can add anything else. (With proper quarantine this time of course )

 

[LeftyReefer]

Unless you remove all fish and let the tank go fallow, it will always have ICH in the tank and any new fish added is likely to get ICH at some point. Some fish can live with it better than others.

Some people "manage" with ICH in their tank, rather than treating it and getting rid of it. They learn to live with it. They avoid fish that are more susceptible to it, etc...

When my tank broke out with ICH, I captured all survivors and moved them to a QT tank and treated with copper. Returned them to the tank after 90 days and they've been ICH free since. I now QT all new fish/livestock for at least a month in copper before thinking of adding them to my display tank.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Do you have corals or inverts in the tank? You could try hyposalinity.
Otherwise safest option is to pull fish out and qt. Fallow for 45 days bare minimum, 76-90 being better.
Do you have pics to confirm ich?

 

[Uromastyx]

Do you have corals or inverts in the tank? You could try hyposalinity.
Otherwise safest option is to pull fish out and qt. Fallow for 45 days bare minimum, 76-90 being better.
Do you have pics to confirm ich?

Yes I do. Corals and clams.
thank you. I’ll do that. Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to take photos. But given the rapid cycle and death of fish in a few weeks I do wonder if it was velvet instead.
the current survivors have been in tank disease free for two weeks.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Yes I do. Corals and clams.
thank you. I’ll do that. Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to take photos. But given the rapid cycle and death of fish in a few weeks I do wonder if it was velvet instead.
the current survivors have been in tank disease free for two weeks.

You’ll want to use the disease free opportunity to remove the fish before they get worse. Thankfully the ich and velvet treatments are quite similar, both requiring therapeutic copper treatments.