desertdawg
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I've been searching and reading for 4 days straight and don't know what to do or which way to go next.
125 gallon RO/DI
running an algae scrubber and a small polishing filter added to a power head.
2 pencil, 2 sally, 2 peppermint, 1 fancy nassarous, a few blue and green hermits, 3 emarld.
Added a pair of clowns.
3 weeks later added a gold rim tang.
After a couple of weeks we started seeing what looked like tiny bubbles on the tang that would come and go daily so we thought it was just micro bubbles.
So 3 weeks after the Gold Rim we added a Yellow tang and a Hippo tang, this is when things got crappy, the bubbles on the Gold got way worse. ICH! Within 3 days the Yellow and the Hippo start showing the same symptoms.
I run to the LFS and they hand me Rid-Ich and they say it's ok to treat the whole tank.
Added 11 teaspoons and 12 hours later the Gold is dead, following the bottle instructions I change out 25 gallons and add 10 more teaspoons and several hours later the Hippo is dead, then the Yellow is dead soon after.
Both clowns start showing signs of ich about this time too.
I setup the only thing I have, a 3 gallon with 1.009 salt, fresh water dip the clowns for about 30 minutes then put them in it and Rid-Ich treat the 3 gallon, 12 hours later 75% water change and a very small dose of Rid-Ich, no signs of ich on the clowns.
18 hours later (this morning) 100% water change with a through scrubbing of EVERYTHING in hot water, no Rid Ich and I raised the salt level to 1.012, the poor clowns are looking way happier with more salt and no chemicals.
water params are ok with no cycle, no sand, no rock, just as small doodad for them to swim around.
Plans are now to raise the salt level back up over the next couple of days. I need to get them back in the DT by friday night because no one will be here for 36 hours, and with just 3 gallons it needs changing about every 12 hours.... Suggestions?
Now heres what makes me really sick. the DT is dying or dead I think due to the 2 Rid-Ich treatments.
Dead so far -1 emarld, several hermits, the 3 small frags (shroom, zoo, monti) are all shrivled, there is zero plant life, the sand and rock have nothing growin on it, no algae, no nothing. Even the scrubber looks like it's going backwards this morning. The Fancy keeps trying to climb out the top, 1 peppermint floating this morning.
Yesterday afternoon it was getting cloudy (rid-ich???)
water params ammo 0.1, trite 0, trate 2, PH 8.1, salt 1.023
I changed out 25 gallons, new filter on the powerhead. and a bag of carbon in the overflow.
This morning the water is almost crystal, levels tested the same, but it's completely dull-dead looking...
Where do I go from here?
125 gallon RO/DI
running an algae scrubber and a small polishing filter added to a power head.
2 pencil, 2 sally, 2 peppermint, 1 fancy nassarous, a few blue and green hermits, 3 emarld.
Added a pair of clowns.
3 weeks later added a gold rim tang.
After a couple of weeks we started seeing what looked like tiny bubbles on the tang that would come and go daily so we thought it was just micro bubbles.
So 3 weeks after the Gold Rim we added a Yellow tang and a Hippo tang, this is when things got crappy, the bubbles on the Gold got way worse. ICH! Within 3 days the Yellow and the Hippo start showing the same symptoms.
I run to the LFS and they hand me Rid-Ich and they say it's ok to treat the whole tank.
Added 11 teaspoons and 12 hours later the Gold is dead, following the bottle instructions I change out 25 gallons and add 10 more teaspoons and several hours later the Hippo is dead, then the Yellow is dead soon after.
Both clowns start showing signs of ich about this time too.
I setup the only thing I have, a 3 gallon with 1.009 salt, fresh water dip the clowns for about 30 minutes then put them in it and Rid-Ich treat the 3 gallon, 12 hours later 75% water change and a very small dose of Rid-Ich, no signs of ich on the clowns.
18 hours later (this morning) 100% water change with a through scrubbing of EVERYTHING in hot water, no Rid Ich and I raised the salt level to 1.012, the poor clowns are looking way happier with more salt and no chemicals.
water params are ok with no cycle, no sand, no rock, just as small doodad for them to swim around.
Plans are now to raise the salt level back up over the next couple of days. I need to get them back in the DT by friday night because no one will be here for 36 hours, and with just 3 gallons it needs changing about every 12 hours.... Suggestions?
Now heres what makes me really sick. the DT is dying or dead I think due to the 2 Rid-Ich treatments.
Dead so far -1 emarld, several hermits, the 3 small frags (shroom, zoo, monti) are all shrivled, there is zero plant life, the sand and rock have nothing growin on it, no algae, no nothing. Even the scrubber looks like it's going backwards this morning. The Fancy keeps trying to climb out the top, 1 peppermint floating this morning.
Yesterday afternoon it was getting cloudy (rid-ich???)
water params ammo 0.1, trite 0, trate 2, PH 8.1, salt 1.023
I changed out 25 gallons, new filter on the powerhead. and a bag of carbon in the overflow.
This morning the water is almost crystal, levels tested the same, but it's completely dull-dead looking...
Where do I go from here?
