ich strikes again

[joe0813]

sigh.... didn't QT my mandarins I got from a LFS, figured they had a thick slime coat and chances of ich was slim. false, my whole 180 now has ich again. Just went through a 90 day fallow period about 5 months ago and copper power treatment for all the fish. Back to square one again. except this time I'm fully stocked with fish and now need to figure out how to QT them all and keep them in a tank big enough. When will this hobby start being a hobby and not a hassle. And all my coral is dying so that's another kick to the gut

 

[theMeat]

Know there’s some avid knowledge medicaters on here. But....
Low stress, healthy established tank, well fed varied diet, maybe uv, and no worry bout ich

 

[joe0813]

I posted about a week ago about the SPS dying, now its all the coral. Waiting on the ICP test since everything I've tested has been pretty spot on except for low nutrients, so whatever is stressing the coral is now effecting the fish causing them to break out in ich. I just set up my UV again and I feed pretty heavy with frozen. Hopefully it will buy me time to figure this out

 

[theMeat]

it should subside since ich has a cycle. That doesn’t mean it’s gone. Lfs makes some great frozen and some live food/gut like live black worms, or fresh, not frozen, clam from seafood store a few times a week imo is good

 

[joe0813]

im just hoping the ICP test shows what's in my water that I am missing on my test kits. and then ill focus on the ich issue since it seems to be related