Moving Display Tank

[tat2guy]

Hey everyone, hope I am posting this in the right forum.
I'm looking to relocate everything from my current DT into a new, better, bigger system that I have set up downstairs in the basement, and I am looking for some tips. I want to give you the low down on my tanks current status and where everything will be going.
Currently I have a 110G Mixed Reef DT with the following inhabitants and Equipment;
180lbs of LR
1" crushed coral substrate
3 Koralia Powerheads
Jebo 180 Skimmer
20G Sump
2x250 M/H
4 x 65W Actinic Blue T5 HO Lamps
Yellow Tang
Powder Brown
Regal
2 Tomato Clowns
2 Ocellaris
1 Bengaii Cardinal
3 Chromis
Foxface
Cleaner Wrasse
Royal Gramma
2 Bubble Tip Anemone
Acros
Zoos
Palys
Mushrooms
Leathers
2 Cleaner Shrimp
2 Peppermint Shrimp
Coral Banded Reeef Shrimp
Sand Sifting Star
Serpeant Star
I know that my current skimmer is small and I have too many fish in there and will be getting rid of the tomatos and the foxface when I move the aquarium.
I will be moving everyone into a 125G Long Tank with all my current LR, a
100G Sump that will have 100lbs of LR and a ASM G5 Skimmer as well as a seperate 30G Fuge just for Algae.
Heres where it gets tricky my Regal Tang has Ich (and has had it for sometime now and can't seem to shake it even though I supplement with Zoe and Garlic Everyday and have a cleaner wrasse and a cleaner shrimp, the ich doen't seem to bother him and he eats like a pig and looks healthy otherwise) also I just found out yesterday that my Yellow Tang now has Black Ich and my Powder Brown has Ich as well.
So what I am looking to do is move any of the sick fish into Quarantine Tanks that I have (I have 6 that I can use but they are currently dry)and treat them. Should I also QT my healthy looking fish since they were in the same sytem? Will my water in my DT be contaminated with Ich now? Do I need to somehow change all the water now when I move everything? Should I dip all my Coral, fish and rock before moving into the new DT (I have bristle worms and maybe flat worms(since my Yellow Tang has black Ich)and can I use the water form my current DT for the new tank and or the QT's?
I know this is a lot of questions but I reall want to do this properly and get my DT back to a very healthy state free of hitch hickers and parasite.
Thanks in advance everyone!!

 

[hlcroghan]

Well, to answer a couple questions.......your display tank will have to run fishless for 6 weeks of you have had any fish with ich in it. If not then you will need to qt all your fish in your current tank for 6 weeks.
It should actually work out well. You can add your corals, inverts and live rock to your new tank and let that run without fish for 6 weeks while your fish are being qt'd. Inverts and live rock do not carry ich. At the end of the 6 weeks you will have healthy disease free fish in your DT.
I would also take that opportunity to scrub the rocks of any hair algae or bubble algae and get it nice and clean if that is an issue. Also the tomato clowns going to a new home is prolly a good idea since they may eventually kill the occellaris clowns. Make sure your clean up crew is up to par with enough snails, crabs, conches, etc. before your fish go in so that if you have any that are prone to nip at the inverts then the inverts will already be established prior to adding back the fish. Also since you will have to run lights this will take care of any algae build up that you might get.

 

[tat2guy]

Thanks for the response and the tips. I'm going to do exactly that but do you think that I should also try dipping the fish before setting them up in the QT? And should I treat all of them for Ich even if only the tangs have visible signs of Ich?
Thanks again!

 

[hlcroghan]

yes. you should definitely treat all of your fish. tangs are prone to showing it first but if they have it all of your fish do, guaranteed.
You could do a freshwater dip but if you are qt all of them then you really don't need to do that and stress them more.

 

[king_neptune]

ditch the Crushed coral. and get some good sand sifters.
ditch the tang^^. new tank, get a new tang^^