Quarantine Help?

[Hookman]

My neon goby has ich, so I caught him and put him in a 5 gallon bucket with a airstone and a heater. I put some coppersafe ich treatment in the bucket today. How long should I medicate the bucket for, the directions don't say anything. I am also using a little Kent Rx parasite treatment in my tank, my clown looks like he might have one or two white dots on him. Any help appreciated!

[dralarms]

Copper safe treats the tank for 1 month, if you have any other fish in the tank you need to [acronym:325ab78b98="quarantine or quart depending on context"]QT[/acronym:325ab78b98] them also and let your tank be fallow for 6 weeks. (This will allow the ich parasite to die off out of the tank). Otherwize you wil just have a reoccurance of ick.

[electrikat]

They also say to vacuum your substrate good to get all the (eggs?) out.

[phases99]

If you are treating your fish in a bucket without biological filtration you better watch the ammonia level very closely. You could try a [acronym:bfd244765e="Freshwater"]FW[/acronym:bfd244765e] dip on your fish and cross your fingers. Most likely you will need to run fallow and treat your fish in [acronym:bfd244765e="quarantine or quart depending on context"]QT[/acronym:bfd244765e]. Unless you are running [acronym:bfd244765e="Fish only"]FO[/acronym:bfd244765e] you should never treat the main tank.