Need some guidance on this... I kind of think I am over-acting to fix problems which may be making things worse. I've watched @Reefahholic videos but I don't have a Hanna checker nor do I have copper. Yesterday I hit the few close stores looking for the Hanna but didn't find it. I know FJW and some of the other sponsors are more likely to have it just getting up into the city is difficult with work schedule.
Thursday Evening:
Bought a very healthy looking Powder Brown Tang. No signs of ich or parasites, but given the nature of this hobby I expected it to have some disease.
Floated bag for 30 minutes, then acclimated it to the QT water. After that I did a safety stop bath (45 minutes of Formalin and then 45 minutes of Methylene Blue). The fish was very calm during the process and showed no signs of stress. Following the dip I moved it into the QT tank (10g). It ate brine shrimp just fine.
Friday Afternoon: I noticed his fins were showing signs of ich, but it wasn't very "major" so I continued with things as normal and decided I would do the tank transfer method to remove the ich. I went to Petco and bought another 10g tank.
Friday Night: He was completely covered with Ich. It looked pretty bad but he was still acting normal, swimming fine etc. So I read online some suggested to do a fresh water dip as it would provide quick relief to him. So I fed him then did a 5 minute FW dip. During the dip he swam around a lot, but didn't play dead like a lot of the videos I've seen before.
Friday Night (2 hours later): No sign of Ich dropping off, so I decided to utilize the only "medicine" I have on hand Hikari Ich-X (low dosage formalin (<5%), Methanol (<2%), Malachite green (<0.1%)). I didn't try to feed him at this point because I figured he'd been through so much. Also did about a 30% water change prior to the dosage to clean out any garbage in the tank.
Saturday Morning (now as of this post): A lot of the Ich has fallen off and has accumulated on the bottom of the tank. He looks like his skin looks pretty beat up from the Ich. While the lights were off he was just kinda swimming in a circle but as the lights came on he became more active. I just gave him some brine shrimp and he devoured it.
So now I'm at the point where I don't know the direction to go from here:
-Do I try to get something for the sores on the skin (like Acriflavine MS / alternative that can be found at Petco/Petsmart) or am I causing additional stress and just need to calm down and let things run it's course?
-Do I continue Ich-X Treatment? (It recommends 1 dose every 24 hours for four days, but in severe cases it can be done every 8 hours).
-Do I switch to TTM?
Thursday Evening:
Bought a very healthy looking Powder Brown Tang. No signs of ich or parasites, but given the nature of this hobby I expected it to have some disease.
Floated bag for 30 minutes, then acclimated it to the QT water. After that I did a safety stop bath (45 minutes of Formalin and then 45 minutes of Methylene Blue). The fish was very calm during the process and showed no signs of stress. Following the dip I moved it into the QT tank (10g). It ate brine shrimp just fine.
Friday Afternoon: I noticed his fins were showing signs of ich, but it wasn't very "major" so I continued with things as normal and decided I would do the tank transfer method to remove the ich. I went to Petco and bought another 10g tank.
Friday Night: He was completely covered with Ich. It looked pretty bad but he was still acting normal, swimming fine etc. So I read online some suggested to do a fresh water dip as it would provide quick relief to him. So I fed him then did a 5 minute FW dip. During the dip he swam around a lot, but didn't play dead like a lot of the videos I've seen before.
Friday Night (2 hours later): No sign of Ich dropping off, so I decided to utilize the only "medicine" I have on hand Hikari Ich-X (low dosage formalin (<5%), Methanol (<2%), Malachite green (<0.1%)). I didn't try to feed him at this point because I figured he'd been through so much. Also did about a 30% water change prior to the dosage to clean out any garbage in the tank.
Saturday Morning (now as of this post): A lot of the Ich has fallen off and has accumulated on the bottom of the tank. He looks like his skin looks pretty beat up from the Ich. While the lights were off he was just kinda swimming in a circle but as the lights came on he became more active. I just gave him some brine shrimp and he devoured it.
So now I'm at the point where I don't know the direction to go from here:
-Do I try to get something for the sores on the skin (like Acriflavine MS / alternative that can be found at Petco/Petsmart) or am I causing additional stress and just need to calm down and let things run it's course?
-Do I continue Ich-X Treatment? (It recommends 1 dose every 24 hours for four days, but in severe cases it can be done every 8 hours).
-Do I switch to TTM?