Setting Up A Qt Without Mature Filter Media?

[xxBarneyxx]

Well I thought the fish move had gone to smoothly. Over the weekend we noticed my clown had a really bad outbreak of white spot. I moved him to a 10g tank with a small chunk of LR and an external canister filter with polyfilter in and a small UV unit.

The first problem is that I cant treat him with copper meds with eithre LR or the poly filter in the system (as both will absorb the copper) and I dont have any mature filter media that I can use.

The second problem is that it now looks like my Royal gramma may have it as well and my lyretail anthias has also not been acting the same as normal (has not be very active but has not marks on him and hasnt lost colour).

Any suggestions on what I should do? without filter media I cant really move all the fish into seperate tanks and treat with copper (unless anyone ha an idea) so FW dip or hypersalinity? Which would be better? Should I just just treat the fish I can see that are affected or treat all of them (I know ideally I need to get all the fish out the display for long enough that the Ich dies off).

 

[ben1987]

they all need treating mate.

I got all my fish in a tiny tank at the minute too, its all i had room for. Got a big UV ready to go on the big tank as soon as i can get the pipes for it.
I have 1 chunk of live rock in there which i will boil and wash repeatadly after. They are on meds...the wrong ones i think
Im just not feeding them anywhere near as much as before and keeping an eye on the stats.
What i will do in the future is buy a couple of small internals and cycle one set of media in the sump, then when i need the QT il move that media over to the other internal in the QT and bin it after.

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yeah thats what im planning to do as well now (I was actually planning on putting some bio balls/rings in the sump once it was running for emergency use). Might have to go get some ammonia lock in the short term (not ideal but all I can think of). Going to be fun having 8 fish in a 10g tank for 8 weeks

 

[ben1987]

thats the same as what i have!
8 fish in 10G
if i lose them all it could be the end of my tank

 

[JoshH]

Really hope things turn out for the best for you both

 

[SkiFletch]

If you have one, consider something like a garbage can or a big plastic bin. Better than a 10g.

Good luck guys.