Hi all been reading the posts for awhile now i have some questions, great site btw-how fun. ok So I have a 80g FOWLR and 2 corals, with UGF, seaclone 150 protein skimmer, cascade canister filter, 80 lbs of LR. Being the newbie I'am I bought a powder blue tang even though the guy at the LFS stroingly advised me not to because they get ich relly easy. Within the first night in my tank he had ich, so i treated immediatly with the common blue ich medicine, for 3 days as directed.He started looking better. This whole time I was learning that i need a QT- newbies dont even try this hobby without a QT- SO i got a 30g and was letting it cycle, I couldn't put anything in there yet cause it was right in the middle of cycling.Then the ich exploded in my big tank again so I treated again. I also forgot to mention that the first time I saw the ich I went out and bought a 15 watt UV sterilizer. So now the QT is done cycling so i took all the LR out of the 30g and put it in the big tank so that i can treat the QT with copper. I tried Freswater dips on the powder blue but lost him, I lost my yellow eyed tang the next day. So ther remaining fish are in the QT tank with copper and are looking much better they are a blue jaw trigger, an engineer, a Goby, and a green corris wrasse. Needless to say after dumping all of those fish into the new small tank my bio load is HUGH my nitrites are soaring, I am changing 4 to 5 gallons/day and readding the copper each time. The copper says it will treat the water for a month but how long should I keep these fish in the 30g under these conditions of the high nitries? I've also heard alot of different things on how long the ich lifecycle is I've heard 7-15 days, 30 days, and 4-6 weeks. How long should I wait to put the fish back in the 80g if iam using a UV sterilizer and treat the tank with the blue med for ich? Also should i just keep doing my daily water changes on the 30g to keep the nitrites managable until i can remove the fish. Also how long do I need to treat the fish with the copper, its been 5 days and they looking better and eating again. But i don't want to risk another ich flare up so shoul I wait as long as possible? My green chromis never got the ich so i left all 4 of them in the big tank, is it possible they have it and i cant tell, they are acting normal and the guy at the LFS said they are pretty resilient to the ich any ideas on that? Thanks for all your help this is a sweet site full of info thanks to all who make it possible. *celebrate
