Lostatsea
New Member
Hi
Firstly thanks to anyone who replies, this is my first post so please forgive me if it is not very clear. I set up a d&d Reefpro 1500 about a year ago and am having a few nightmares!! My latest one is the dreaded ich! I added live rock and waited over 6 months before adding a copperband butterfly to get rid of some aptasia that started popping up. After another 3 months all was well and the butterfly fish has been growing well. Recently I set up a quarantine tank and added a powder blue and some clownfish to it. These are now in copper as the powder blue developed ich. Unfortunately I also purchased a mandarin, scooter blenny and yellow wrasse. Stupidly I put them straight into my main tank as my lfs said they had been properly quarantined and would probably not survive a copper treatment anyway. Hence now my copperband butterfly is showing signs of ich. It is just the odd spot but I now have a powder blue about to come out of quarantine but can’t put him in the main display because of the ich. I doubt even if I could catch the fish in the display tank (it is pretty full of sps corals which seem to be growing nicely so really do not want to smash it all up catching the fish) the powder blue would probably attack at least the copperband as it is only a 105 litre quarantine. I think if I have to pull it all apart I might just give up! Do you think adding a 80watt D&D UV might control the ich, I know it will not eradicate it but now getting desperate!! Not sure how I would catch the yellow wrasse anyway as he dives in the sand plus the scooter blenny is very secretive. Any ideas would be great. Beginning to think unless I win the lottery so I can buy a house big enough to hold multiple quarantine tanks this hobby is to difficult! Thanks for your time.
Firstly thanks to anyone who replies, this is my first post so please forgive me if it is not very clear. I set up a d&d Reefpro 1500 about a year ago and am having a few nightmares!! My latest one is the dreaded ich! I added live rock and waited over 6 months before adding a copperband butterfly to get rid of some aptasia that started popping up. After another 3 months all was well and the butterfly fish has been growing well. Recently I set up a quarantine tank and added a powder blue and some clownfish to it. These are now in copper as the powder blue developed ich. Unfortunately I also purchased a mandarin, scooter blenny and yellow wrasse. Stupidly I put them straight into my main tank as my lfs said they had been properly quarantined and would probably not survive a copper treatment anyway. Hence now my copperband butterfly is showing signs of ich. It is just the odd spot but I now have a powder blue about to come out of quarantine but can’t put him in the main display because of the ich. I doubt even if I could catch the fish in the display tank (it is pretty full of sps corals which seem to be growing nicely so really do not want to smash it all up catching the fish) the powder blue would probably attack at least the copperband as it is only a 105 litre quarantine. I think if I have to pull it all apart I might just give up! Do you think adding a 80watt D&D UV might control the ich, I know it will not eradicate it but now getting desperate!! Not sure how I would catch the yellow wrasse anyway as he dives in the sand plus the scooter blenny is very secretive. Any ideas would be great. Beginning to think unless I win the lottery so I can buy a house big enough to hold multiple quarantine tanks this hobby is to difficult! Thanks for your time.
