 I have Ich
I started seeing my fish "flashing" a couple of weeks ago but saw no white spots on them and I have always had good water quality so I thought that I might have a chance at them pulling through without a real "outbreak" but here I am. I saw spots on my Kole tang last night and on my Midas blenny and now I'm freaking out. The only fish that don't seem effected are my two clowns that I have had over a year. I believe that I contracted the disease from an LFS that I got coral from about three weeks ago because I returned there to see Ich on the fish in the frag tank. I have had all of the fish in the display for about two months or longer so I don't believe any of them had it to start out with. The LFS that I got all of the fish at also QT all new fish for at least four weeks prior to sale, and I trust them completely with having healthy fish so I don't believe it came in on any fish. I have learned my lesson about QT everything for the future, I just didn't think that I had anything to worry about with the coral, boy was I wrong first red bugs and then this.
Time for the questions. I have decided to use a hypo treatment in a Qt tank but I don't know the best method for making the tank "ready" for the bioload that it will be receiving. I have a 55 gal tank that I will be using for the treatment but I have 8 fish that I need to put in it (about 30in of fish). I will put them in a couple at a time but what is the best way to do the filtration? I have a hang on filter that I could use but it isn't cycled. I'm also going to add birospira to help prepare the tank, but what do I need to do to get a pretty good filter going so that I don't need to do WC every day or two for the entire period that they are in there? |