sunrays
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Well, I introduced ich to my reef tank......what a bummer. I never performed a QT and I am now payiong the price.....
I pulled all the fish (see below) and will use this as an opportunity to redesign the reef and do some cleaning.
So this is what I am doing for treatment:
1) Set up a 29gal QT...bare bottom, HOB Bio Wheel Filter, Couple of Live Rocks for hiding, heater, and light. I have just a few fish and the are small right now (Pigmy Cherub Angel, Very Small Hippo Tang, Very Small Yellow Tang, Flame Hawk, and a baby Maroon Clown)
2) I pulled water from the reef tank to bypass cycling.
3) I am going to try the Hyposalinity method.
Now here is my question: After the necessary time period of treatment (I hope I don't lose any fish....the ich is very minimal right now) I will re-introduce the fish back to the reef. By having the fish out of the reef for the treatment does this automatically rid the display tank of the infestation because there are no host fish available? Someone told me that ich is always present and will only manifest itself when the fish are stressed (I don't believe that)
However....does ich go dormant without hosts or will it die off? :help: :help:
So this is what I am doing for treatment:
1) Set up a 29gal QT...bare bottom, HOB Bio Wheel Filter, Couple of Live Rocks for hiding, heater, and light. I have just a few fish and the are small right now (Pigmy Cherub Angel, Very Small Hippo Tang, Very Small Yellow Tang, Flame Hawk, and a baby Maroon Clown)
2) I pulled water from the reef tank to bypass cycling.
3) I am going to try the Hyposalinity method.
Now here is my question: After the necessary time period of treatment (I hope I don't lose any fish....the ich is very minimal right now) I will re-introduce the fish back to the reef. By having the fish out of the reef for the treatment does this automatically rid the display tank of the infestation because there are no host fish available? Someone told me that ich is always present and will only manifest itself when the fish are stressed (I don't believe that)