Hello,
I'm having a disaster and trying to avert another one.
Our DT had an outbreak of Ich and following advice we set up a QT. I visited LFS showed a picture of the ich and he recommended a reef safe treatment.
This didn't work and I have since learned that Ich cannot be treated in a reef safe way. You have to QT and treat with copper. Sadly this came too late for our coral beauty and Banghai.
We saved two clown fish and a yellow tang. I began copper treatment with Aquacare marine anti-parasite yesterday, which contains Copper Sulphate 1600mg/100ml and Formaldehyde 2040 mg / 100ml.
The fish seemed to look much better, but following the second dose of treatment one of the clown fish has just died today. So upsetting.
So now we only have 2 fish left. I need to treat the ich but don't want to kill with copper.
Dosage is for 50l tank and 12 days as follows.
Day 1 - 1.25ml
Day 2 - 2.5ml
Day 3 - 1.25ml
Day 4 - 2.5ml
Day 5 - 1.25ml
Day 6 - 0
Day 7 - 1.25ml
Day 8 - 0
Day 9 - 1.25ml
Day 10 - 0
Day 11 - 1.25ml
Day 12 - 00
I am going to have to keep fish in QT for 76 days, can I reduce the dosage by half and do it for 24 days?
Or shall I forget copper and try hypo-salinity?
Thanks,
Loodvic
I'm having a disaster and trying to avert another one.
Our DT had an outbreak of Ich and following advice we set up a QT. I visited LFS showed a picture of the ich and he recommended a reef safe treatment.
This didn't work and I have since learned that Ich cannot be treated in a reef safe way. You have to QT and treat with copper. Sadly this came too late for our coral beauty and Banghai.
We saved two clown fish and a yellow tang. I began copper treatment with Aquacare marine anti-parasite yesterday, which contains Copper Sulphate 1600mg/100ml and Formaldehyde 2040 mg / 100ml.
The fish seemed to look much better, but following the second dose of treatment one of the clown fish has just died today. So upsetting.
So now we only have 2 fish left. I need to treat the ich but don't want to kill with copper.
Dosage is for 50l tank and 12 days as follows.
Day 1 - 1.25ml
Day 2 - 2.5ml
Day 3 - 1.25ml
Day 4 - 2.5ml
Day 5 - 1.25ml
Day 6 - 0
Day 7 - 1.25ml
Day 8 - 0
Day 9 - 1.25ml
Day 10 - 0
Day 11 - 1.25ml
Day 12 - 00
I am going to have to keep fish in QT for 76 days, can I reduce the dosage by half and do it for 24 days?
Or shall I forget copper and try hypo-salinity?
Thanks,
Loodvic