need ick advise hippo & sailfin

[schenkel]

I have a 1-1/2 month old 72 bow front with urchin skimmer/emporer 400 filter/4x96wattspc lighting/ sump/ 100 lbs of live sand/ 20 lbs of lr/ 60 lbs of base rock/ 3 power heads.
I introduced a small blue hippo, 2 weeks later it got ick. I put it in a NEW hospital tank treating it w/ copper. Good news is ick looks gone after treating for 3 days - bad news is my sailfin tang now has it. The problem is I couldn't catch the hippo, she lodged herself in a pc of live rock. So I had to put her and the lr in the hospital tank. She won't come out even to eat. And I am not sure how to get her out of the rock. The 10 gallon tank is located under my display next to the sump 1 powerhead, 1 heater, and i tossed in a used filter pad out of the emporer 400 for some bio. With the sailfin getting ick and blue hippo not eatting should I try to put her back in the tank and treat the whole tank with stop parisite or kick ick. Or if I can catch the sailfin put them both in the 10 gal. hospital tank. I just don't know if they can hack it stuck in a 10 gallon tank for a month. Before I caught her she ate very well. She is now on a 3-4 day starve. The only other fish in the tank is a scooter blenny - are they ick suseptable?
No not going to get another bigger hospital tank - Wife will kill me (seriously) :scared:
No I do not feel confident on dropping the salinity to .009

I have candy cane coral, green polyps, 1 seabea anenome, 1 condi anenome, and some cool hand picked by me hermits and snails.
Long post sorry-- last question is the pc of live rock I had to put in the hospital tank - junk or could it be boiled and returned to the main tank as base rock?

 

[anthonynyc]

Originally Posted by schenkel
I have a 1-1/2 month old 72 bow front with urchin skimmer/emporer 400 filter/4x96wattspc lighting/ sump/ 100 lbs of live sand/ 20 lbs of lr/ 60 lbs of base rock/ 3 power heads.
I introduced a small blue hippo, 2 weeks later it got ick. I put it in a NEW hospital tank treating it w/ copper. Good news is ick looks gone after treating for 3 days - bad news is my sailfin tang now has it. The problem is I couldn't catch the hippo, she lodged herself in a pc of live rock. So I had to put her and the lr in the hospital tank. She won't come out even to eat. And I am not sure how to get her out of the rock. The 10 gallon tank is located under my display next to the sump 1 powerhead, 1 heater, and i tossed in a used filter pad out of the emporer 400 for some bio. With the sailfin getting ick and blue hippo not eatting should I try to put her back in the tank and treat the whole tank with stop parisite or kick ick. Or if I can catch the sailfin put them both in the 10 gal. hospital tank. I just don't know if they can hack it stuck in a 10 gallon tank for a month. Before I caught her she ate very well. She is now on a 3-4 day starve. The only other fish in the tank is a scooter blenny - are they ick suseptable?
No not going to get another bigger hospital tank - Wife will kill me (seriously) :scared:
No I do not feel confident on dropping the salinity to .009

I have candy cane coral, green polyps, 1 seabea anenome, 1 condi anenome, and some cool hand picked by me hermits and snails.
Long post sorry-- last question is the pc of live rock I had to put in the hospital tank - junk or could it be boiled and returned to the main tank as base rock?

I would say to move the 3 fishes to the 10gallon and treat that one with hyposalinity since you don't want to treat the main tank. I would stay away from any of the other chemicals and kick ich etc...
I am only telling you what worked for me. I had the same issue and treated with hyposalinity and it worked with no issues and no lost fish.
Thanks,
Anthony

 

[schenkel]

bump

 

[beth]

Well, this is tough. Dealing with this kind of thing in a reef tank has no easy answer. Setting up a larger QT, does not have to cost too much. A square rubbermaid from Walmart or Home Depot makes an excellent QT.
How big are these fish? Take a look at the post on on ich and hyposalinity posted in the FAQ so you know what you are up against, and the cure procedure.

 

[schenkel]

Well the hippo didn't make it. I did catch the sailfin and blenny - had to turn all the lights off and use the force and a flashlight at about 1 am. I am definatly learning a lesson on the infamous QT tank. Though the lfs that I got the hippo had 2 and the one at the store shows no signs of ich. ??? I am treating with kordon RID*ICH+ in the hospital tank. I assume it is copper - formaldehyde 4.26% (11.52% formalin) salt of malachite green.
Well back to the treatment - hopefully with no more casualties.
One question - the instructions say to remove 25% of water every day before the retreatment. Sounds wierd.