Starting a 150gal Hyposalinity tank - yikes

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Otherone

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I noticed this week outta the blue, my Tangs + Gramma have marine ick -crap! No signs yet on the Hawk, Damsel, Wrasses, or Clown.

I have 1 cu ft of marine cycled bioballs and 2 cycled scrubber pads going into an XP3 + 2 penguin 350's, boy I hope this is enuff for 13 fish. I've researched this enuff that I'm confident on how the procedure works but gotta admit Cupramine sure sounds tempting.I've used cleeted cooper exclusively for my large tooth charcins with 100% success but everything I've read about marine ich leads to Hypo as the best method. This is gonna be a real pain in the arse - esp. removing 180lbs of LR to catch the lil' buggers - got my fingers crossed this is not all in vain. Once the fish are out I'll just let the system run with no additions for the duration at the very least it should get the rest of the PO4 and N03 out. After 8 weeks I'll start slowly adding whatever fish survive back in slowly at like
1-2 a week. Any tips or suggestions greatly appreciated.
 
Wow, good luck. I just got rid of my ich using Herbtana. I just couldn't catch the fish to quarantine each and every one of them from my 300-gallon. I lost a Naso along the way though. But if you can catch the fish, most def do the hypo.
 
Wish I were closer to ya, I have 3 gallons of bio balls for ya I am not using.
 
As it turns out I had to put on the brakes, my LFS (self proclaimed worlds largest fish store) is out of refractors and I have to leave the state for a week or so very soon. I did ironically buy Herbtana to try to help with the delay. I'll be able to complete the 10 day treatment prior to leaving.

And yes thank you I did realize that dropping 13 fish at once into an F/O 150gal woud mean larger and more frequent w/c's. But the poor fish will have to be strong and wait 3 more weeks til I return home. Good news is I'm catching this early and all fish still eat like lil' piggies.
 
Otherone said:
And yes thank you I did realize that dropping 13 fish at once into an F/O 150gal woud mean larger and more frequent w/c's. But the poor fish will have to be strong and wait 3 more weeks til I return home. Good news is I'm catching this early and all fish still eat like lil' piggies.
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Ya, it's pretty tough on them because they produce more waste in order to compensate for the lowered salinity.
 
So far I've only lost the 1 fish - the Cole Tang kicked the bucket, he really got in a bad way quickly. The rest still eat like horses and I'm yet to see reinfection on the Hippo, Scopus, Powder Brown.and Royal Gramma. I still see some infection on the Yellow Mimic and the Atlantic Blue but nowhere as bad as the beginning. To this date the onyx clown, pixie hawk,damsel, watchmen goby,coral beauty, tail spot + 6 line wrasses have not been infected .

It's been 10 days with herbtana and I'm leaving tonight for sunny FLA. My saltwater tank looks like absolute crap with no carbon, gfo, vodka, or skimmer but the good news is all corals and inverts seem totally uneffected. Not sure how this comes into play but I've got Red coraline growin now like gangbusters not sure if the reactors were holding it back or not. And when I say gangbusters I mean an entire rock is encrusted in 2 days.
Anyways I got my fingers crossed I come back and am still in the hobby, not starting from scratch all over again.
 
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