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[George]

Sorry about your lost.
There must be an explanation as to why your ich re-occurs in your previously fallow tank. From all the scientific paper and numerous expert articles on marine ich, they all say ich needs a fish host during free swimming stage otherwise it will die after a day or two. And the cyst stage of ich is up to 28 days.
If you want to get to the bottom of this, tell us a little bit more about how you QT your harlequin tusk. How long is the copper treatment. Did you test for level of copper during the treatment? How long is the QT period after the copper treatment?

[ottoman]

Try feed the fish a lot. I used garlic on seaweed and NLS Thera-A anti parasitic pellet. As soon as fishes are healthy, no stress, then should be fine. I had tangs with ick before, not possible to do fishless or copper, ick went away heavily feeding and skimming. Good luck.

[apex82]

He was not stressed at all... super active and loving life. It was the jumping from tank and then near death as it took awhile for me to get him from the back of the tank back into the water. This brought out the ich but I followed everything to the tee with quarantine and fishless tank to rid the ich prior to that event.

QT was 1-2 ppm of copper checked every 3 days. He was in there for a solid 5 weeks. I did not wean him off copper in the qt, it was just an hour drip and then into main tank.

Main tank was fishless for 7 weeks except for cleaners, crabs, anemone and corals... I didnt let a drop of water get into that display tank in 7 weeks to make sure there was no contamination.

I just dont understand how he got it even though he was super stressed from the jump... I am going to continue to make sure he eats lots of variety, selcon, garlic etc... I just feel like it was a lot of wasted time and extra effort to maintain the quarantine as well as an empty tank for almost 2 months! All for nothing.