So it had been years since I added a new fish. I set up a new tank and added several new fish in the last month or so. I did the dumb thing and did not QT. So what do you know I have ich, who would have guessed...
Anyhow I want to do the right thing here and make this as low stress for my fish as possible and also eliminate the ich. I have not really bought coral since setting up my new system , and still have the old tank so my plan was this.
Set the old tank up in my basement, move one of my two lights to the basement for the coral.
Move my old rock with coral back to the old tank, and move all inverts (I have crabs, shrimp, anemones, clams) to old tank.
Add some addidtional dry LR (I have cleaned this rock with RO/DI soaks after a muraitic acid treatment) I had lots of dry LR from old systems and didnt need it all. I believe adding a few pieces will help the few fish that live in the rock I have to take out. Most of the fish live in LR that has no coral on it and will stay in the tank as it is untouched.
Remove the carbon and GFO, keep skimmer on.
Treat tank with all fish and base LR in it (wrasse, 2 clowns, 2 bangai cardinals, 2 basslets, 2 wanatabei angels, kole tang) no inverts or corals.
How long should I use the cupramine for? How long should I wait after my test shows 0 copper to add the coral back in? Any other suggestions on how I can make this go smooth?
Anyhow I want to do the right thing here and make this as low stress for my fish as possible and also eliminate the ich. I have not really bought coral since setting up my new system , and still have the old tank so my plan was this.
Set the old tank up in my basement, move one of my two lights to the basement for the coral.
Move my old rock with coral back to the old tank, and move all inverts (I have crabs, shrimp, anemones, clams) to old tank.
Add some addidtional dry LR (I have cleaned this rock with RO/DI soaks after a muraitic acid treatment) I had lots of dry LR from old systems and didnt need it all. I believe adding a few pieces will help the few fish that live in the rock I have to take out. Most of the fish live in LR that has no coral on it and will stay in the tank as it is untouched.
Remove the carbon and GFO, keep skimmer on.
Treat tank with all fish and base LR in it (wrasse, 2 clowns, 2 bangai cardinals, 2 basslets, 2 wanatabei angels, kole tang) no inverts or corals.
How long should I use the cupramine for? How long should I wait after my test shows 0 copper to add the coral back in? Any other suggestions on how I can make this go smooth?