please help with qt!!!

[gohabsgo]

Hi everyone,i am new here !and i would like to say that i'm from Montreal so forgive my english!!!
I had ich outbreak in my dt due to a heniochus butterfly that i bought and did not quarantine! So i rush to buy a qt(30 g) and i did not have 6 week time to cycle the tank because i waited to much before taking a decision as what whas the best thing to do!!but finaly decided to do hypo but to late for the heniochus!!Now i have maroon clown left and a yellowtail demsel left!!Yesterday i check the nitrite in qt and i see there up to the roof,so i made 5 g change of water ,but today i check again and it's the same ,what should i do to bring that down!!!

 

[trainfever]

I have a ten gallon tank that I use for both a QT tank and a hospital tank. I dont keep it up all of the time, only when I need it. What I do is make a fresh batch of water. I then drain 10 gallons of water from my dt into my Qt and then fill my dt back up with the fresh salt water.
Where are the fish now, in the QT or DT? If in the QT, then remove them and put them in a 5 gallon bucket with water from QT. Then empty QT and refill with water from DT and slowly acclimate fish into QT. Then fill DT with fresh batch of salt water.

 

[gohabsgo]

the fish are in hypo in the qt for now because of ich .The dt is fishless and it as to remain that way for 4-6 week.

 

[geridoc]

I have had pretty much the same thing happen to me. I added Amquel Plus to the qt water as per the bottle directions, and the fish immediately looked better, and did fine. Be sure to follow the directions exactly about re-dosing.

 

[gohabsgo]

I'm not sure if i can get that same product in Montreal do,but maybe someting that does the same job,here i have "stability by seachem for establishment of bio filter" and amolock ,but this is more amonia block before you change water!!

 

[sepulatian]

I had nitrite spikes awhile ago. Amquel plus does bring it down for that day. It looks to me as though you had enough biological filtration for the ammonia spike. Do some water changes. Make the water up to the same SG and PH as the QT water and just change it out. What are you using to measure SG?

 

[gohabsgo]

I'm realy stress they seem to recover from ich and now i dont wont them to die because of that spike,friday i change 5 gallons and saturday another 5 so today i'm going to check again!As for the sg i have that plastic thing but i order a refractometre on line!Irealy dont understand why i have spike of nitrite from new water!!!

 

[gohabsgo]

I did my tests again today and the amonia and the nitrate are very low but the nitrite are i think at the highess they can be

now i'm clueless!!!

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by gohabsgo
I did my tests again today and the amonia and the nitrate are very low but the nitrite are i think at the highess they can be

now i'm clueless!!!
Nitrites, unfortunately, take some time to come down. Keep doing the water changes. Can you add more biological bacteria to the tank? The nitrites are not comming from the new water that you are adding (test the mixed water just to be sure). They are the product of the ammonia breaking down. They will come down. The best you can do is continue with the water changes and add more bacteria to the water. Are the fish showing signs of stress from the nitrites?

 

[gohabsgo]

When the Heniochus started to have ich the maroon clown started to have Lymphocyctis on is bottom fin,the clown and the demsel does not show sign of ich anymore and the demsel he's eating now so this is a good thing but he lost some scale because the poor guy was scratching against the rock ,and when i put them in the qt the demsel was almost dead,so for me they look a 1000 times better than last week aside from that it's hard to tell but i know that the last thing they need is a nitrite peek!!!!