Treating in a reef

[3pjspunky]

Hey everyone, I'm new on here. I've been in the hobby about four years now and have gone from a twenty gallon, to a thirty and now a ninety reef with a wetdry. After losing eleven fish from Velvet that I thought was ich and probably two hundred dollars in medicine, I finally invested in a quarantine tank. I know, shame on me for waiting. Anywho, I've got five yellow tangs I bought chilling in there and in the meantime, it seems the velvet has come back to the ninety. My two clarkiis and one cinnamon have it. Im not sure how this came about. Water tests fine and since the first big loss, nothing jas been added. I managed to catch my female clarkii so shes in quarantine but I have two problems. One, the other clowns might attack her upon reintroduction and two, I cant get them without causing an avalanche. Ive been treating with Metro MS in the ninety but I dont know what else to do. How can I ensure that my main tank fish will be healthy and I wont get another outbreak once I add the quarantine tank fish? The way I see it is by quarantine, I should have very little issues caused by income fish but what about the fish that haven't been quarantined becuase I cant catch them? I want this next shot to work. Im building back up after my holocaust.

 

[3dees]

you need to get all of the fish out of the dt and go fallow for a minimum of eight weeks. I may be wrong, but five yellow tangs in a 90 gal. is just asking for more problems. also, 3 clowns in a tank that size isn't a good idea.

 

[a49panhead]

I had to take a 12oz water bottle and cut the top fiip it insid out and tape it back up. It looked almost like a crab or lobester trap. I put it in a common spot the fish would swim. It tulk about 4 days for the fish to get caught but it worked. Pending on the size of fish u r trying to catch u might have to use something bigger then a 12ov bottle but u get the idea. good luck

 

[TJ's Reef]

Yes, unfortunately you will need to QT and medicate all fish while the display goes through a Fallow period of said 8-week minimum. THERE IS NO SAFE IN DISPLAY CURE. I'd suggest Cupramine for full duration/per instructions and to do a FW dip of each Clownfish going into QT so as not to directly expose your Tangs. Also agree with a 90g not being large enough for 5 Yellow Tangs other than juveniles short term. A single Yellow with maybe a Kole or Tomini would/could work out though. Best of luck with the battle.

Cheers, Todd

 

[arhalster]

Honestly, I've done the same thing three times now with success battling ich for myself and friends. You have to get all of the fish in the QT, you can't miss any of them, otherwise you will be back to the start with your problem. I've always used Cupramine for the QT, and I have used a reef safe Ich Attack by Kordon in the DT. I treated both tanks for three weeks, or until a week after the last visible sign of Ich is gone. I have never had a problem with a re-infestation. Both of those have worked for me three times now. Once on my tank, once on my parents, and once on a friends. I know everyone has an opinion on this subject, but I just wanted to share mine

 

[Mike J.]

Marine Velvet Disease