Quarintine tank help

Nope all is good. Im just wanna make sure I try and do the best thing I can. Im changing the water soon and going to see if the ammonia goes down more. Hopefully doing this everyday will help. I think putting them back in the DT will stress them out even more.

 

yeah your right. and you don't want any stress, especially with the tang. have you considered using a nitrifying bacteria?

 

I just put some in with this water change. Hopefully this helps. Everybody is eating and swimmng fine also so far. They have been in there for a week.

 

cool.

 

Do you have an ammonia test that will compensate for the copper treatment? Copper gives FALSE postives for ammonia. Even with that said, I am sure you are having ammonia issues. Welcome to the world of QT. I have a few of these (white knuckle) tanks setup myself. First off, you need to be prepared to do daily more likely twice daily water changes. You need to keep the lights low. You need to keep the fish eating. IMO the purpose of a QT is to make sure the fish isnt carrying oodinium or another likely fatal parasite/disease, to make sure the fish is eating well, to de-worm your new pets, and to introduce them to your style of husbandry. I will not knock what you have done here but you might have jumped the gun just a bit. Proper feeding and good water quality make for healthy fish. Healthy fish fight off the parasite on their own. And anybody who tells you it is possible to completely irradicate ich from the system likely does not understand the process it that would be required to make this happen. Remember it is free swimming. Do you plan to QT live rock, corals, and inverts or ANYTHING at all that is going to touch your water?

 

Thanks for your input. Everything helps. The fish are eating well so far..

I do have a reef tank setup that is why I had to pull the fish to treat. I will be adding more stuff once this all clears up as much as it can. Should I be QT them also? I didn't think that inverts can carry ick.