Well, Its finally happened to me and I'm gonna cry.

SpockthePuffer

SpockthePuffer

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Lastnight, I turned off the lights to the tanks and went to bed, all was fine. The fish looked great, they were full from eating some nori on clip. I couldn't ask for anything better!

Well... I turn on the lights this morning and look in at my darling fish...

:eek3: that pretty much illustrates my facial expression and my emotion...

To my surprise the scopas tang that I had had in QT for 3 weeks and has been in the display tank for almost a week had ich ALL over him. Not just a couple dots. ALLLLL Over. I inspected the other fish, my Valentini has a dot of ich near his eye :( and all the others haven't been affected.

Okay so some of you might be like "when did spockthepuffer get a scopas tang?" Well I got him about 4 weeks ago. I couldn't resist, he was so beautiful and I *know* that I'm going to get a bigger tank at some point.

So my current stocklist is a 55 FOWLR with:
Scopas Tang
Valentini Puffer
Coral Beauty
Royal Gramma
Yellow Watchman
Midas Blenny
Ocellaris Clown

so as far as the overstocking goes... it could be worse.

So I got the tang around 4 weeks ago, QTed him for 3 weeks. During that time he was fine, ate like a freaking pig and looked great. I thought about putting him into hypo in the QT tank but I didn't because of another thread on here I said something about it and got a negative response.

So now I'm feeling guilt because maybe if I had kept him in there for 4 weeks it would have shown up :(

I'm also questioning whether I've always had ich and the other fish just were never stressed enough to show signs of it. It just seems odd that the tang isj ust now showing signs. After being in a 10 gallon qt for three weeks with only a small cave to hide in I would have though that would be the time for him to show signs of ich, not now that he is kind of the 55 and having a great time swimming around and eating.

Alright so now what?

I have a 10 gallon QT tank which obviously can't hold more than one of the fish really. Since I don't have corals can I hypo the display tank?
Does a low sg affect snails or hermits?
As much money as I spent on my LR it really sucks as far as life goes and I had been considering ordering LR off of tampabaysaltwater to try and seed all the base and "live" rock I already have.
I could even put some of the liverock I already have and put it in the 10 gallon and leave that fallow and then hypo the display tank with just the baserock and fish(that I'm pretty positive hasn't been seeded by the live rock over the past 6 months or so) If the hermits and snails are affected by low sg I could put them into the 10 gallon with the liverock too.

okay so long post with lots of questions... sorry I'm just kind of flipping out. I turned on the lights right before I had to leave for work so now I'm at working worrying to death. Oh and this couldn't have happened on a worse week because I have a TON of homework to do with finals comming up and GAAAHHHH!!!

:wall::wall::help::headshake2:

okay I think I covered everything.
 
okay, I guess I'll be hypoing the DT then. Thats probably the least stressful way of doing it for me and the fish.

When hypoing a tank what SG do you take it down to? 1.008ish?

Do I have to take it down slowly so I don't kill the bacteria?
 
Reefscape said:
Yes, 1.009 is about right...lower the salinity over a period of 3 days....
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Wouldn't that kill the cycle doing it so fast? I know when I moved my greenspottedpuffer from fresh to brackish I was told to raise the SG by .002 a week.

I've been searching different ich medicine on the forum here and it seems people have had success with some of the different types of meds. Why is it better to use hypo than medicine? If I did use a med I would probably move my valentini into the QT tank and put him into hypo since meds aren't good for puffers...
 
I think it will be fine spread over three days...When you setup a quarantine for fish, and lower the salinity in it, its done over a 3 day period, so i dont see the display being any different...

Its personal opinion / choice, whether to use a med or hypo...Myself, i hate adding anything thats ina bottle to my tank...If there is another successfull way to achieve a goal with using a med, then thats the way i'll approach it..

Just my opinion of course..
 
Ok I am probably going to get blasted for this especially since I am still a relative newbie but..... Here is what I did. I had a coral beauty get ich kinda bad all the sudden just like you. Then the next day my Foxface had it kinda bad. I read all these threads and looked at all meds. Well I dont have a QT or a reflectometer so hypo was out of the question. I went to the LFS and got two cleaner shrimp and two neon gobys. I made my own food out of fresh seafood, nori, spirulina, garlic extreme, and lots of vitamins. Fed them that for a week or so and have not seen a spot of ich again. I my just be lucky but I think the health of the fish in the tank has more than anything else to do with it. Any just my 2 cents.
 
Sorry to hear! Ich is a pain the butt. i was doing QT in 3 tanks and then thought how odd I was. I removed all corals and inverts from my 75g and it's being used as my hypo QT. How much easier this is, and my fish are a lot happier.

Hope you beat the ich. It's certainly not fun to see anything on our beloved fish.
 
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