FOWLR, no inverts to speak of. 3 Fish: cowfish, puffer, foxface. Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 10. No aggression to speak of. I have a UV that I unfortunately did not realize was clogged, but which is now running again.
Long story short, got a new fish about a week ago, this morning my cowfish is showing signs of ich. Not terribly, but definitely there. Cowfish (not the new fish) is the only fish exhibiting signs. Eating fine, if not for the spots I wouldnt know anything is wrong.
Unfortunately (and I know this is said too often by everyone) I do not have the ability to run a hospital tank. The reason for this is I am getting married in 2 weeks, and will be going on a 7 day honeymoon. This basically means that my tank will not be getting a lot of attention over the next three weeks, and certainly not the attention that hospital tanks would require. So accepting that I am a stupid dumbass for not QTing (but please feel free to berate me) how should I handle this?
A. Keep up water quality, feed varied foods and hope that the newly unclogged UV and water quality allow the cowfish to fight off the ich and the other fish to avoid it. I am leaning towards this option initially.
B. Hypo the main tank. I have no inverts to speak of and no coraline on my LR. I could hypo, keep up water changes to deal with any die off from little LR critters, and keep the tank that way for a couple of months.
C. Use one of the useless Kick-Ich type medicines. I know these are worthless, but I would feel like I was DOING something.
D. Postpone the wedding and honeymoon so I can devote the necessary attention to set up a hospital tank.
E. Forfeit my fish-keeping license and give my fish away. Anyone too stupid to QT is too stupid to own a tank!
Thoughts? I am more interested on people's opinions on the problems I will encounter hypoing the main tank. I know its not ideal, and I'm not happy with myself, but I may as well try to do what I can.
Long story short, got a new fish about a week ago, this morning my cowfish is showing signs of ich. Not terribly, but definitely there. Cowfish (not the new fish) is the only fish exhibiting signs. Eating fine, if not for the spots I wouldnt know anything is wrong.
Unfortunately (and I know this is said too often by everyone) I do not have the ability to run a hospital tank. The reason for this is I am getting married in 2 weeks, and will be going on a 7 day honeymoon. This basically means that my tank will not be getting a lot of attention over the next three weeks, and certainly not the attention that hospital tanks would require. So accepting that I am a stupid dumbass for not QTing (but please feel free to berate me) how should I handle this?
A. Keep up water quality, feed varied foods and hope that the newly unclogged UV and water quality allow the cowfish to fight off the ich and the other fish to avoid it. I am leaning towards this option initially.
B. Hypo the main tank. I have no inverts to speak of and no coraline on my LR. I could hypo, keep up water changes to deal with any die off from little LR critters, and keep the tank that way for a couple of months.
C. Use one of the useless Kick-Ich type medicines. I know these are worthless, but I would feel like I was DOING something.
D. Postpone the wedding and honeymoon so I can devote the necessary attention to set up a hospital tank.
E. Forfeit my fish-keeping license and give my fish away. Anyone too stupid to QT is too stupid to own a tank!
Thoughts? I am more interested on people's opinions on the problems I will encounter hypoing the main tank. I know its not ideal, and I'm not happy with myself, but I may as well try to do what I can.
