We basically are trying to manage ich in our DT for the time being (didn't know that the tang we have always had was a carrier of it until we put a blue hippo in after quarantine and she got spots). Once the blue hippo got spots we tried the snake oil Kich Ich and turned our UV off....after doing that though a lot of the spots went away, our coral started suffering so after 5 weeks we quit the product and turned everything back on. Now Hippo has 4-5 new spots and our pink margin fairy wrasse has about 5-6. I was hoping the blue hippo would fight it off but I know everything time she gets spots and they drop they #'s increase in the tank making it harder for the other fish to fight it off. The Pink Margin had been covered before we started the Kich Ich and now I'm afraid he just can't stay in tank. We will be setting up a smaller 90 gallon of fish only in about a month or a little longer and could put him in that but I am worried about treating him for the ich first. I have used Coppersafe on a McCoskers and even though I did it very slowly he still ended up dying during treatment. What do you recommend (or anyone else) to treat the Pink Margin? I'm not sure what to do about the Hippo....We have the large Yellow Tang in copper now (21 days in) and had plans of putting him in the 90G.....the 90G will be too small for the Blue Hippo so what do we do about her? Is she going to eventually be able to fight it off no matter how large the numbers get? She's been in the DT for almost 2 months probably and is a fast little sucker I can't imagine trying to catch her and all those wrasses. (We have the pink margin, ruby head, carpenter and yellowfin flashers) The two flashers look like they have a whitish film on them but the lights did just come on about a hour ago and it doesn't look like ich spots yet though they did have some the first time around before the Kich Ich. Our DT is a 180 with a ton of rockwork. Other fish are a lawn mower blenny, yellow watchman goby, Fire Goby, Pistol shrimp, 3 PJ cardinals, royal gramma, 2 cleaner shrimp and about 350 or more various snails. Please advise! We have gone fallow before but only when we had 2 fish left after a case of velvet (the same yellow tang and the same yellow goby)...I never treated them because they never showed signs of illness then since learned they can carry and not show symptoms so I really wish I had treated them back then because we wouldn't have the ich right now (Thinking maybe it wasn't originally velvet but bad case of ich, this was before we had the UV). Anyway, any advice is appreciated. Thanks! Sorry so long!
ETA: I do feed very healthy diet....frozen 2x a day that includes Rods frozen mix, brine, spirula brine, mysis, plankton, tank full of copepods and Tig pods (red ruby wrasse is fat and very healthy looking others are a little younger) ON pellets, algae sheets, sea veggies, all soaked in garlic and glucan and vitamins. Also add stress coat to the water and garlic (20 drops for 200G) We have a large UV, GFO and carbon, we siphon almost nightly.
ETA: I do feed very healthy diet....frozen 2x a day that includes Rods frozen mix, brine, spirula brine, mysis, plankton, tank full of copepods and Tig pods (red ruby wrasse is fat and very healthy looking others are a little younger) ON pellets, algae sheets, sea veggies, all soaked in garlic and glucan and vitamins. Also add stress coat to the water and garlic (20 drops for 200G) We have a large UV, GFO and carbon, we siphon almost nightly.
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