main tank has ick..help?

[ant81]

ok i have a 55gal tank running for 5 months now and my whole tank got ick so i bought a 10gal hospital tank...i wanna know if im going on the right track? i took out all the fishes out (1 yellow tang, 1 six bar angel fish, 1 flame angel and 2 small clown fishes) added them in the 10 gal tank with a power head, aquaclear filter and a heater and added my first dose of Cupramine 1ml today sep 22 ...cleaned my main tank ...now what else do i do.? how do i go about doing the rest...do i have to do water changes? how often? like i really wanna save these fishes so i would need a bit of help ...thanks

[psiico]

5 fish in a 10g? I'd say you have to do water changes. Keep a very close eye on water quality with that many fish in there. Test the water to see how often to do the changes.

[cmkr.jackson]

Seems like you are on the right track but that 10 gal will keep you busy with water changes...from what I've read it will take a good six weeks before the display tank will be ick free...even then who really knows...keep us posted...were all the fish infected?

[TheFallenAngel]

Have to agree on this one. Way too small for that many fish. I was lucky enough to have a 75 that I was selling, already set up. Prolonged selling it because I had to keep the fish in there for 6 weeks while I let the ick die off in the reef tank. Good luck with it all. I would recommend at least a 30 for hospital tank though. I'm picking mine up this week.