surge408
Aquarium Advice Newbie
i just started my salt water set up about 1 month ago. It is a 50 gal tall tank with 20lbs live rock and live sand. temp is at 78F i have a jbo skimmer and a flovol 304 filter. i got the water tested at the LFS and said all i needed was some more enzymes in the water but everything else was fine. At first i had 4 damsels and a clown fish that seem to be living good they ate and everything. Then i put a flame angle, yellow tang, and blue tang. in a week the yellow tang was rubing itself against the rocks. then i saw lots of spots on the blue tang and yellow tang. all 3 big fish died in a week. i was treating to main tank with kick ich and it didnt seem to woork. then i read the big label on the container of how i was suppose to remove the carbon filtration. i moved the remaining fish to hospitol tank and put some kind of copper medication. i left a cleaner shrimp and 2 starfish in the main tank and im still treating the main tank with kick ich i. i also lower the the salt level to 1.020. iknow it helps when it is lower than 1.015 but i did not want to kill my inverts. right now the main tank is fishless. what can i do to get the ick to go away. should i let it satay fishless for 4-6 weeks? anything ells to speed it up? anu help would be appreaciated thanks