fin rot

[donduncan]

This is a long story. I bought an established tank. Moved it and set it back up. I never checked the water quality as there were fish alreay in the set up (135 reef set up). I added some additional fish and all was fine for about 2 weeks. One of the new fish started to get ick. I checked the water and the Nitrates were 180+. Did several water changes over 2 weeks (50 gallons each time). Nitrates started to come down, but still not in acceptabel levels. I decided to remove the liverock and fish. Set up a QT tank to treat the fish with copper for ick? Drained the tank to the sand and refilled. Left the tank fallow for 4 weeks. Tested the nitrates and they were 0.

In the QT tank (40 gallon) i did water changes (10-15 gallons) every 4 days and moniter the water quality. The amonia was never greater than 10. The ick was cured, but the fish seemed stressed as some started to develope fin rot. The fin rot on my maroon sail fin started to subside and seems better. My Koran still has his fins frayed.

I have already returned them to the tank in hopes that better H20 quality would help. My coral beauty has slight pop eye. Should I treat them or see if things get better. They are in a reef tank that has some inverts and coral in it. Any help would be great.

Sorry for the long explanation, but I wanted the full extent understood.

Thanks

[Jeff]

if you have a skimmer, then skim wet. other than water quality, make sure they are fed well and add some live macro algea for them to graze on. a well fed fish in clean water is the best cure, you are on the right track.

[mozartkt]

I agree, keep water quality up and feed possibly in smaller quantities, more often (same total amount). This could help keep stress down.