Moving fish to treat Ich help?

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Hello again SCR,
Sorry for all these threads... I'm a total newbie to this hobby so please bear with me. Title says all. Now, ich got into my DT a while back. It disappeared for 2 months, and now all my fish have it. I want to use hyposalinity and leave the DT fishless to kill off all ich before I move them back. I have a QT ready to go. Problem is. How the heck do I move my fish over to the QT? I've tried netting them, but they knew what I was up to and headed straight into the rocks... Any ideas on how to move them over? Fish are: 2 Percs [I'll catch them later when they're asleep out in the open] 2 lyretail anthias [sleeps in the rockwork] and 1 Firefish [sleeps in rockwork]... Any ideas on how to move? Or better, treat them somehow in the DT.
 
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Fish trap or remove all your rock into a brute trash can. Net them all out, than re-scape your rocks...
 
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Blublubub said:
Hello again SCR,
Sorry for all these threads... I'm a total newbie to this hobby so please bear with me. Title says all. Now, ich got into my DT a while back. It disappeared for 2 months, and now all my fish have it. I want to use hyposalinity and leave the DT fishless to kill off all ich before I move them back. I have a QT ready to go. Problem is. How the heck do I move my fish over to the QT? I've tried netting them, but they knew what I was up to and headed straight into the rocks... Any ideas on how to move them over? Fish are: 2 Percs [I'll catch them later when they're asleep out in the open] 2 lyretail anthias [sleeps in the rockwork] and 1 Firefish [sleeps in rockwork]... Any ideas on how to move? Or better, treat them somehow in the DT.
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are the fish still eating?
 
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can you come to my shop on wed we can talk I have antibiotics that work well on parasites as long as the fish are still eating, no need to go through all the work of tear down to catch the fish that will make matter worse
 
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Sure, I can stop by. I go to school close by, so I'll stop by after school. But as I've said, I'd rather not use any meds to cure... I lost quite a few tanks back in the freshwater world to meds, so i don't really trust meds [I'm also really poor as a high school student so I can't afford meds]
 
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Blublubub said:
Sure, I can stop by. I go to school close by, so I'll stop by after school. But as I've said, I'd rather not use any meds to cure... I lost quite a few tanks back in the freshwater world to meds, so i don't really trust meds [I'm also really poor as a high school student so I can't afford meds]
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I understand but I do not like use harsh treatments such as copper this is a reef safe remedy and is put in the food and works from the inside and out
 
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and we can work out something with the price , I feel the investment you have made and the life of the fish come first
 
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I'm very relieved to hear that this works. I got some new fish in QT that's been in there for a while [for observation{Yes, I've learned my lesson with this ich outbreak}]... Should I continue to keep them in the QT or is it safe to move them over to the DT while the 40 day treatment is underway?
 
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