Ich outbreak, How long before I can move the fish back to the main tank?

[toxicemt]

I want to know how long ich will last in a tank. Ive had my tank setup about 6 months and had no problems till now. Its a 90 gallon with 5 damsels(from the cycle),1 coral beauty,2 cleaner shrimp,1 emerald(hitchhicker),25 or so hermits and about a dozen snails,50 pounds of live rock and some zoas and a leather and 1 coral im not sure of. And then i added 1 hippo tang. No qt, My mistake I know, lesson learned. My coral beauty started showing white spots. I set up a 29 gallon qt(1 fish to late) broke down the rock, caught and moved the fish to the qt and started with cupramine. The hippo tang got covered and passed sometime during the night. My question is how long before i can move the qt fish back to the main tank safely, and is there anything i should do to the main tank that wont hurt whats in there? The corals, rock and cleaning crew are still in the 90 gallon

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by ToxicEMT
http:///forum/post/3037031
I want to know how long ich will last in a tank. Ive had my tank setup about 6 months and had no problems till now. Its a 90 gallon with 5 damsels(from the cycle),1 coral beauty,2 cleaner shrimp,1 emerald(hitchhicker),25 or so hermits and about a dozen snails,50 pounds of live rock and some zoas and a leather and 1 coral im not sure of. And then i added 1 hippo tang. No qt, My mistake I know, lesson learned. My coral beauty started showing white spots. I set up a 29 gallon qt(1 fish to late) broke down the rock, caught and moved the fish to the qt and started with cupramine. The hippo tang got covered and passed sometime during the night. My question is how long before i can move the qt fish back to the main tank safely, and is there anything i should do to the main tank that wont hurt whats in there? The corals, rock and cleaning crew are still in the 90 gallon
Leave the display fish less for six weeks. Finish copper treatment on the rest. Copper should be administered for at last three weeks. Just because the source is gone does not mean that all ich is gone. If you falter on the treatment then the other fish will bring ich right back into the display. You have them out. Kill the parasites.

 

[toxicemt]

Hey thanks, six weeks and the display should be fine. The copper treatment says to keep the fish dosed for 14 days. If i wanted 3 weeks instead would i just wait on adding the carbon to filter the copper out?

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by ToxicEMT
http:///forum/post/3037186
Hey thanks, six weeks and the display should be fine. The copper treatment says to keep the fish dosed for 14 days. If i wanted 3 weeks instead would i just wait on adding the carbon to filter the copper out?
What kind of copper are you using and what kind of copper test? What is the copper test reading for copper level right now?

 

[toxicemt]

I am using cupramine and a seachem copper test kit. Right now the copper level is .30ppm after the first dose. the bottle says to give a second dose to get it to around .50ppm, in 48 hours after 1st dose. Tomorrow around 6p. the directions are a little vague as to what the propper dose may be though.