Hello,
I wanted to share my experience and get some advise from all you pros regarding my tank status of being ick eradicated vs managed. I have been reefing a while and took dive into a upgrade from a 120g to 180g tank. I am trying to take it slow and do the build the tank right. On February 1st my tank got wet, I did 60 day cycle before adding fish. Once I felt tank was ready I added 5 fish from current set up that I have had 5+ years (they appeared to be healthy) with 5 fish from marine collectors. After two weeks of fish being fine my hippo tang ( note this was from marine collectors) showed signs of ick and started scratching against the rocks. I then noticed 1-2 dots of ick on some other fish and that’s when it started to sink in that my tank isn’t sterile and has ick.
I reached out to Elliot from marine collectors and was advised to do a 76 days of hypo salinity in my tank. He said ick must have been dormant in my old fish showing zero signs of disease and must have been stressed out by tank transfer and infected other fish.
My tank currently just has dry rock and fish in it....My question is if I do hypo salinity in my main tank for 76 days would my tank be considered ick free or am I just trying to manage it?
My main concern is my new Achilles tang and keeping my dream fish alive. I am also not going to add copper to the tank based on the rock absorbing the copper and messing with the levels later on. I have QT set up but not large enough for 10 fish....
my tank is currently in day 2 of hypo salinity and the ick does seem to be less visible to the eye.
For the record I am not blaming marine collectors for my mistake I am trying to not lose $1500 in fish.
thanks in advanced for any feed back and your help.
cheers
forshurley
I wanted to share my experience and get some advise from all you pros regarding my tank status of being ick eradicated vs managed. I have been reefing a while and took dive into a upgrade from a 120g to 180g tank. I am trying to take it slow and do the build the tank right. On February 1st my tank got wet, I did 60 day cycle before adding fish. Once I felt tank was ready I added 5 fish from current set up that I have had 5+ years (they appeared to be healthy) with 5 fish from marine collectors. After two weeks of fish being fine my hippo tang ( note this was from marine collectors) showed signs of ick and started scratching against the rocks. I then noticed 1-2 dots of ick on some other fish and that’s when it started to sink in that my tank isn’t sterile and has ick.
I reached out to Elliot from marine collectors and was advised to do a 76 days of hypo salinity in my tank. He said ick must have been dormant in my old fish showing zero signs of disease and must have been stressed out by tank transfer and infected other fish.
My tank currently just has dry rock and fish in it....My question is if I do hypo salinity in my main tank for 76 days would my tank be considered ick free or am I just trying to manage it?
My main concern is my new Achilles tang and keeping my dream fish alive. I am also not going to add copper to the tank based on the rock absorbing the copper and messing with the levels later on. I have QT set up but not large enough for 10 fish....
my tank is currently in day 2 of hypo salinity and the ick does seem to be less visible to the eye.
For the record I am not blaming marine collectors for my mistake I am trying to not lose $1500 in fish.
thanks in advanced for any feed back and your help.
cheers
forshurley
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