Help? Ich?

[kelly4687]

I was told to re-post over here for more help...please help

Okay, so my baby puffer seemed great when I got him about 3 weeks ago...I just noticed white spots on his tail and his body now- guessing ich? No I didn't qt him, I know I know I screwed up and I didn't have my qt tank set up.
What do I do now? I have a 20-30 gal tank that was going to be my qt tank- but what do I do now? Do I set it up? I have to go to work right now and won't be back until midnight so nothing can be done now- but what can I do.
What I have in my tank- 75lbs of rock, 1 young niger trigger, 2 clowns, 1 algae blenny, 1 dimaond goby, 1 emerald crab, snails and hermits, 1 xenia, and 1 kenya tree. Every fish seems ich free but not my puffer!!!
Can someone tell me in GREAT detail on what my options are?
I read that garlic soaked food was good, so I really had no time before work and that is what I did...Please help!!

 

[deejeff442]

i'll bump you up .odd usually beth helps out pretty kwik.
whats the update on the puffer,you might have to do a freshwater dip to get some ich off then do the hypo.how do your other fish look?
garlic is something you need to do to help the fishes immune also add vitamines .i like to add zoe to the food with kents garlic.
but that is something to help the fish fight off early stages of disease not at the point where you are.
hopefully sep or beth get on here to help .
keep us posted and good luck

 

[kelly4687]

Thanks!
I went to lfs and talked to the one guy I really like- just by the way I see how he cares. He told me to get rid-ich and use that. I told him that my qt tank is not that big and couldn't I just take out my snails and crabs and medicate in the dt tank and he said that would work....but I forgot to ask him one more thing

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what about my xenia and kenya tree- can I leave them there?

 

[wakeboard3584]

no, you really cant leave anything that makes your reef a reef. the corals definitely need to go and u even need to take out liverock too so you're not killing all the beneficial little critters that cover it. that's not even talking about the critters that you would be killing in your substrate. i would recommend just getting a bigger QT. I need to set one up myself

i just really worry about putting any medication in my reef. the bio-system is too delicate for me to play with like that. but.... to each their own.

 

[al mc]

Originally Posted by kelly4687
http:///forum/post/3019550
Thanks!
I went to lfs and talked to the one guy I really like- just by the way I see how he cares. He told me to get rid-ich and use that. I told him that my qt tank is not that big and couldn't I just take out my snails and crabs and medicate in the dt tank and he said that would work....but I forgot to ask him one more thing

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what about my xenia and kenya tree- can I leave them there?
It is generally not a good idea to pour bottled treatments into a reef tank. I would read Beth's archived thread on disease and treatment to familiarize yourself with treatment options.

 

[mr. limpid]

I've been reading both of your threads. I had the same problem a year ago. When you have a mix tank and don't have a large enough QT, you have to treat your fish in the DT. Move all none fish to a seperate tank or a plastic garbage can will work with power head and heater. If you have corals they will need lighting they will be there for six to seven weeks. I recomend hypo treatment, i tried copper (harmfull to some fish, and need to test levels), tried ick attack work after trippled the recomended dosage, but came back, so I negate the first part of this sentance. Follow Beth's method for hypo do not stray or it will not work, I allowed an extra week in hypo(for human error).
good luck