10 weeks fishless DT... All new fishes week have to go into QT for 4 weeks as well... I've never used copper before... I've only been using hyposalinity... With UV...
Angel Keeper
With luck, they may recover from ich and probably become immune to the strain... However, ich will still be present in the tank... So your safest bet if you hope for such a thing to happen, is never to add any fish ever again...
Angel Keeper
Nothing can kill ich except for copper, hyposalinity and level 1 sterilisation from UV... All other folklore of fish or shrimps getting rid of ich is nonsense... What they do is only nibble at dead skin, and maybe relieve a bit of 'whatever they're feeling'...
Angel Keeper
I siphoned as much out as possible... And placed filters at every outlet... And blasted the wavemakers for about an hour... And siphonedaga again... That got rid of most... Mine erupted due to me forgetting to switch on my skimmer after coral feeding...
Angel Keeper
That means your tank specific gravity will be at least 1.024... Temperature should be about 29 degrees... Not much media to grow nitrifying bacteria plus no RODI would probably mean high nitrates and phosphates after cycling... I hate to be an ice bucket but you may have much problems... You probably should consider running biopellets and Rowasphos / Ultraphos in reactors...
Angel Keeper