ich again!!

[Nu2Reefs]

I used the water from my tank when I set mine up. If your parameters are all good it is supposed to help cycle the new tank. ( or thats what I read, I still had a cycle but I had some pretty large fish going into a 10 and 20 gal. tank)
Maybe someone with more exp. will answer since this is my first Qt also. We had one about 15 years ago that we set up when we first set up our tank but after so long with no need for it well. . .

[jhnrb]

You can put your fish back in after 3 weeks but there could still be some ich in the system dormant. anyways if the fish are healthy and if you have several cleaner shrimp and maybe a cleaner gobie or two you should be fine. 3 months is just to make sure. if you cant go that long put um back in. good luck keep us posted.

[Nu2Reefs]

Thanks for the reply, Yes the fish seem healthy. No signs of ich or anything else. They have been at 1.016 for the last 2.5 weeks. Was going to drop it to 1.012 but have been waiting on a refractometer before I took it that low just to be sure of accuracy. I thought another 3 weeks at the lower salinity just to make sure then slowly bring it back up.
Just a thought.
Do I have to reintroduce the fish one at a time to keep the big tank from cycling or will it still be up to the bioload?

No cleaner shrimp and no gobies unfortunately, I have two triggers and a rather large lunar wrasse.

[jhnrb]

If the main tank has not been disrupted you should be able to put the fish back in. just reclimate and you should be fine. there may be some sort of cycle but feed lightly until the cycle passes.

[hibye]

you should make new water

[hibye]

you could clean the gravel with a sipon so the ich process will be les days

[hibye]

i think everone has had ich