Well, I am frustrated. I had my Coral Beauty in QT for almost 2 months, and he was healthy, so I began setting up and cycling my 46-gallon. About a week into my cycle, my Coral Beauty came down with ich! Over 2 months after getting him! On the recommendation of my LFS, I treated him with a product called Coral-Vital, which turned out now to be a waste of time...a week later, it is not as bad, but there are still a few spots, and he is back to scraping himself.
Here's my problem: My 46-gallon is ready for a fish, and I don't have a healthy fish to put in there. And now I have wasted an entire week attempting this Coral-Vital treatment.
I treated for 6 days like the LFS said, and the Coral Beauty got better, but never really looked normal. I did not treat yesterday, and now today I see a few tiny spots on his head and see him scraping himself against my heater and my rocks. I know that the best treatment would be hyposalinity, but with that method, my 46-gallon will "uncycle." How can I keep the bacteria alive in the 46-gallon while I get this Coral Beauty healthy in QT? I don't want to put a fish with ich in my display tank, but purchasing a fish from my LFS and putting him directly in there seems just as dangerous?
I put this question in this forum instead of sick fish because my question is not so much how to treat the ich, my question is how to avoid wasting my cycle in my 46-gallon. I suppose it was too much to hope that everything would go perfectly, but still, how frustrating! Any advice?
Here's my problem: My 46-gallon is ready for a fish, and I don't have a healthy fish to put in there. And now I have wasted an entire week attempting this Coral-Vital treatment.
I treated for 6 days like the LFS said, and the Coral Beauty got better, but never really looked normal. I did not treat yesterday, and now today I see a few tiny spots on his head and see him scraping himself against my heater and my rocks. I know that the best treatment would be hyposalinity, but with that method, my 46-gallon will "uncycle." How can I keep the bacteria alive in the 46-gallon while I get this Coral Beauty healthy in QT? I don't want to put a fish with ich in my display tank, but purchasing a fish from my LFS and putting him directly in there seems just as dangerous?
I put this question in this forum instead of sick fish because my question is not so much how to treat the ich, my question is how to avoid wasting my cycle in my 46-gallon. I suppose it was too much to hope that everything would go perfectly, but still, how frustrating! Any advice?