quarantined fish what next??

[clairewill4]

after my fish have caught ich just before we were about to upgrade to a bigger tank!! i have put them all in qt tank i purchased medicine today calledesha oodinex wide range marine treatment has anyone used it?? does it work?? will i have to keep them in qt for 4 weeks or 8??used a water world med in main display tank when first fish showed symtoms but it killed all coral!! so much for reef safe! has cost us a fortune! helpppppp!

 

[welsher7]

I would use any medicine. you can lower the salinity in the qt tank to 1.009 and keep it there for 5 weeks and then slowly bring the salinity back up to 1.025 over a course of 2 weeks, and your fish should be free of ich. I wouldn't use anything in the tank. The ich that is left in the tank will die off without anything for it to host on. this treatment is called hypo. Due a search on hypo salinity treatments and you will get good driections on how to do it.

 

[clairewill4]

thanks have used med and started to reduce salt they dropping like flys though have lost one today and two more on the way out!

 

[smurph1415]

freshwater baths work very well. get a bowl/bucket of fresh water (dechlorinated of course) and put the fish in there for 2 minutes. Because the bacteria can only live in saltwater, being in the fresh water for that 2 min will kill it.