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So I added a powder blue tang. Looked good during qt. Within 12 hours of adding him, my powder brown broke out in ich. Then he looked better and the powder blue broke out a week later. Powder blue died and 24 hours later, the powder brown died. A week goes by. My other fish looked good until last night. This morning my clowns died and my dwarf angel died. Ammonia is 0. Nitrite is 0. Nitrate is 5. I couldn't get all the fish that died out, but I'm not worried about ammonia because I have like 300lbs of rock and a 40 gallon refugium overgrown with 12 different species of macroalgaes connected to the system.
So I'm not posting to see how to treat the ich. I realize I need to be fishless for several months. Problem is, there are two fish I don't think I can get out. My lawnmower blenny looks great, but I've never been able to catch him. My engineer goby looked good when I saw him this morning, but I probably won't see him for another month. He always hides. I also have mollies that spawn like crazy, so I doubt I can catch all the babies. The ich doesn't seem to touch the mollies either. Maybe because they are a freshwater fish too? I don't know. Will the ich be eradicated if I add a uv and don't add fish and just leave the blenny, engineer, and mollies?
So I'm not posting to see how to treat the ich. I realize I need to be fishless for several months. Problem is, there are two fish I don't think I can get out. My lawnmower blenny looks great, but I've never been able to catch him. My engineer goby looked good when I saw him this morning, but I probably won't see him for another month. He always hides. I also have mollies that spawn like crazy, so I doubt I can catch all the babies. The ich doesn't seem to touch the mollies either. Maybe because they are a freshwater fish too? I don't know. Will the ich be eradicated if I add a uv and don't add fish and just leave the blenny, engineer, and mollies?