Iche outbreak.

[Mark Siembida]

Hello guys,need some help.
Have a 50g reef tank all leather corals and 6 fish,
Have a bad outbreak of saltwater iche.
Moved all coral to 15g safe tank,3 fish have died 3 left but they are looking bad today.
Should I just dump tank and clean live rock and start over?
What do you do with live sand.
Please help Thank u.

 

[AcroNem]

the coral can stay in the display tank, along with invertebrates, sand and rock. The fish will need to be treated before adding back to the display. The display with rocks and sand will be fine but does need to go through a fallow (fishless) period of ideally 76 days to starve out Crypto before it is considered clean again. I'll get a link for Crypto treatments

 

[AcroNem]

Fish Disease Index

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[Big G]

Can you post a picture of the fish? Might be velvet or ich.

 

[AcroNem]

That is true, if this is moving fast it could be Velvet

 

[Mark Siembida]

Can you post a picture of the fish? Might be velvet or ich.

 

[mitch91175]

Will need a closer picture, but if you see a sheen to it's skin (slightly purple-ish), it's velvet. Ich usually doesn't kill fish like that unless the fish were already not healthy.