ok, i have yet another question for all you experts out there. i got an ich outbreak that has already taken the lives of 2 fish. my qt is only a 10 gallon and not enough room to treat all my fish, so i have to move my inverts to my QT. Now, the problem is i had to completely re-cycle my QT. I have ammonia, nirite, and nitrate readings. Once they all go down to where they are unreadable, can i put my inverts in my QT for the time it takes me to do hypo on my main tank? or would the QT not be mature enough to handle my inverts for that amount of time? I have 2 feather dusters, a sand sifting starfish, some snails, and an emerald mithrax crab. oh and i have been using kordon ich attack because it is safe to use with inverts, but in my opinion it is not doing the job its supposed to. the only thing it is doing is causing a bunch of algae to grow.
moving my inverts to my QT
- Thread starter bchbm2022
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Leave the inverts in the display..put the fish in a rubbermaid container if you have to. Handle the lack of a cycled tank with daily or every other day (as needed) water changes. The fish will be able to handle this far easier than the inverts AND you won't have to deal with what you'll do with the substrate and rock while you're treating for ich.
I'd allow the display to go fallow for 6-8 weeks. As for hyposalinity or copper...in my opinion hypo is safer (use a refractometer and not a hydrometer for this!). However I used copper myself in the past. If you go the route of copper you'll want to get the right kind of copper test kit and be diligent about monitoring it as it is a poison.