I don't know how it got in my tank exactly, but 3 of my fish had small onset of ich (a few white spots on their fins, not many). I know that it can quickly get out of hand so I wanted to take care of it before it reached disasterous levels.
I had to completely tear down my tank and remove all my fish to QT tanks for Cu treatment. I couldnt treat the display because I have inverts and coral. I managed to divide them up into 2 different tanks. Sadly the QT tanks aren't as big as I'd like for this sort of thing, as their purpose is to help me catch things like this before they make it into the display (i failed). Luckily none of my fish are full grown, so this helps the situation slightly. All between 1-4 inches (only the mandarin dragonet is 4 inches, others all smaller).
So here's the QT setup - 10 gallon, mandarin (yes he eats frozen and live brine shrimp, so i'm hoping this ties him over during QT until i can return him to his ample supply of pods in the display), firefish, small clown.
15 gallon long - 1 inch yellow tang, 1 inch sixline wrasse, royal gamma (little over an inch).
I hate that they are in so small of area because I didn't catch the ich before it got to my display. I plan on doing small daily water changes to hopefully limit some of the stress.
From what I've read I have to keep them in QT for a month for the Copper treatment to fully work on them and to give the display tank time to be cleansed of any of the free swimming ich cycle. Water temps are all at 78-80 degrees.
Is this an acurate/safe amount of time? Will my babies be ok for that long of a time in such tight quarters??
I feel terrible :cry:
I had to completely tear down my tank and remove all my fish to QT tanks for Cu treatment. I couldnt treat the display because I have inverts and coral. I managed to divide them up into 2 different tanks. Sadly the QT tanks aren't as big as I'd like for this sort of thing, as their purpose is to help me catch things like this before they make it into the display (i failed). Luckily none of my fish are full grown, so this helps the situation slightly. All between 1-4 inches (only the mandarin dragonet is 4 inches, others all smaller).
So here's the QT setup - 10 gallon, mandarin (yes he eats frozen and live brine shrimp, so i'm hoping this ties him over during QT until i can return him to his ample supply of pods in the display), firefish, small clown.
15 gallon long - 1 inch yellow tang, 1 inch sixline wrasse, royal gamma (little over an inch).
I hate that they are in so small of area because I didn't catch the ich before it got to my display. I plan on doing small daily water changes to hopefully limit some of the stress.
From what I've read I have to keep them in QT for a month for the Copper treatment to fully work on them and to give the display tank time to be cleansed of any of the free swimming ich cycle. Water temps are all at 78-80 degrees.
Is this an acurate/safe amount of time? Will my babies be ok for that long of a time in such tight quarters??
I feel terrible :cry: