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So here is what happened and of course of all weeks it happened this week. I had finals all week and didn't spend my time watching over my tank as much as I do. Don't get me wrong I did the water changes and all just wasn't watching the fish. So friday I looked and one of my clowns had ich unfortunatly I didn't have a qt so the next day on my way home from work I went out and got one. I did a lot of research and I just want to confirm with some people what I have found and or done so far. So all fish from the DT are in my QT. This tank has only been setup for 3 months now so I only have 4 fish in it at the moment and 12 hermits and 10 snails I have about 75 lbs of live rock in my 75 gallon tank.
Now on to the QT tank. So I have a 10 gallon QT with 2 blue reef's unfortunately my clown who originally had it died by the time I got home with the QT. So she went to the toilet in the sky. So from what I found online they said the best method for beating this besides great water quality and trying to eliminate stressful situations. I had found that they said reducing the salinity to 1.009 and then the ich can't live in that environment. So all the fish have now been in the QT for a day the saltwater I took out of the display and mixed that with the ro freshwater I got to give me the salinity I needed. SO Ph is at 8.2 ammonia nitrite and nitrate is at 0. So here are my questions and if I have done anything wrong so far let me know.
1. When doing water changes in the qt should I continue to take the water from the display or just use the regular saltwater ?
2. My understanding is the life cycle of marine ich is about 3-4 weeks is this correct ? (I plan on keeping everyone in qt about 2 weeks past that point)
3. While I know water quality is a key thing I am assuming some things are going to be off being the amount of fish I have in the tank should I be as worried about water peramiter changes ?
4. How long should it take from the time I put them in the qt tank with the water salinity that low until the ich goes away ?
5. Is there anything else that I could be doing to assist the fish in getting over the ich that I am not ?
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help these little guys out.
Now on to the QT tank. So I have a 10 gallon QT with 2 blue reef's unfortunately my clown who originally had it died by the time I got home with the QT. So she went to the toilet in the sky. So from what I found online they said the best method for beating this besides great water quality and trying to eliminate stressful situations. I had found that they said reducing the salinity to 1.009 and then the ich can't live in that environment. So all the fish have now been in the QT for a day the saltwater I took out of the display and mixed that with the ro freshwater I got to give me the salinity I needed. SO Ph is at 8.2 ammonia nitrite and nitrate is at 0. So here are my questions and if I have done anything wrong so far let me know.
1. When doing water changes in the qt should I continue to take the water from the display or just use the regular saltwater ?
2. My understanding is the life cycle of marine ich is about 3-4 weeks is this correct ? (I plan on keeping everyone in qt about 2 weeks past that point)
3. While I know water quality is a key thing I am assuming some things are going to be off being the amount of fish I have in the tank should I be as worried about water peramiter changes ?
4. How long should it take from the time I put them in the qt tank with the water salinity that low until the ich goes away ?
5. Is there anything else that I could be doing to assist the fish in getting over the ich that I am not ?
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help these little guys out.