o crap, ICK! we meet again

[dandsbernardo]

Here is my issue, I have a regal tang and coral beauty that have ick, my snowflake eel does not at the momement from what I can tell. What do I do, I have had this tank for about 4months and I used 90lbs of live substrate and a holy crap ton of live rock, along with a xenia zoo and mushroom or 2. How do I get rid of this out break? Catch all the fish? Let my tank sit fish less and hypo my fish? The eel will be a challange to catch

 

[meowzer]

Put the fish in another tank and do hypo....and leave the tank empty of fish for 6 weeks
if you have to tear things apart to get the eel....that is what you will have to do...

 

[dandsbernardo]

Well, after an hour and a half of cursing and tearing apart my tank I got my snowflake, and my diamond back goby. Whata tunnel system! But corals and inverts are safe and happy. Waiting six weeks will suck before I can add fish. Can I add live rock or other inverts? Like janitors and such?

 

[tangs rule]

Quote:
Originally Posted by dandsbernardo http:///forum/thread/386551/o-crap-ick-we-meet-again#post_3396191
Well, after an hour and a half of cursing and tearing apart my tank I got my snowflake, and my diamond back goby. Whata tunnel system! But corals and inverts are safe and happy. Waiting six weeks will suck before I can add fish. Can I add live rock or other inverts? Like janitors and such?
If all your fish/eel & all redblodded animals are out of the tank - NOW is the perfect time to add all the corls/inverts/CUC/new things, as long as there are NO fish added to the DT. As far as more liverock - the odds are just too high with new LR - I'd go with some dry base and let become live in your own tank - no sense bringing in some other nightmare into your DT that could arrive on LR. But a fallow tank is a great time to add new things. Just remember to allow a good month AFTER your last new addition to the DT to let any fish-type parsites that may have arrived on it die off.
Of course it's always good to Qtine new inverts too for bugs, mites, worms, decay, and illness too.

 

[dandsbernardo]

Thanks for the info, sadly the orange diamond bak goby didn't make it, he. Decided to jump out of the hospital tank this mmorning. :sad:

 

[tangs rule]

Quote:
Originally Posted by dandsbernardo http:///forum/thread/386551/o-crap-ick-we-meet-again#post_3396295
Thanks for the info, sadly the orange diamond bak goby didn't make it, he. Decided to jump out of the hospital tank this mmorning.

I can sympathize - my randalls goby did the same thing within the 1st week of getting him. Darn thing found the only little hole in the lid over the qtine tank and I found him on the floor the next day. rats. i liked him