Hello I just recently discovered MAAST and once i can locate when/where the next meeting will be held, I can't wait to become a ful fledged member. Great to see such a helpful aquarium community in the SA area. So on with my "Emergency"...

My daughter has a very small 12G tank with a small clown, blue damsel, and a pseudochromis. No corals or live rock "thankfully!!" and pink fiji aragonite as a substrate. Of course like any small child she could not wait to just set up her tank and get it going instead of going the quarantine route and now I guess we are paying the price. The pseudo is now showing "physical symtoms" of Ich.

I just finished reading the Ich article posted ealier in this forum.

I guess I'm look more for opinions of should we vacuum out all the substrate and water and try to convert this tank to a hospital tank and dose it with the copper treatments recommended in the article? We were recommended the "all natural" Ich-Attackr manufactured by Kordon by a local aquarium store in the area. However, after reading the Ich article I have my doubts that this wil only prolong the fish's suffering and waste time.

Or being such a small tank should I just trash the tank move the fish to a new tank for "hospitalization" and then start over with a new tank going the QT route this time to avoid this in the future?

Thanks for any help or opinions.