Well here we go now... Angel's Auriga Butterfly started showing signs of ich, Garlic seemed to be helping for a while and started coming around, think the bugs were just waiting to attack again, but she crashed last night really bad and we lost her this morning. We decided to treat all remaining fish and to rid every possible chance of any ich parasites that could be left in the 55, all fish were removed (what a job, had to tear the whole reef up to get them) they are now not quite so happily relocated to the 29G tank, now the process of dropping the salinty over the next couple days then maintaining water params as stable as possible for at least the next 6 weeks and we'll see how everyone fairs. Baby Dory is looking a bit shell shocked, Clarkii is going nuts without his Sabae, the blennies and goby aren't too thrilled either but just a little heavy beathing, I drip acclimated them for over an hour hoping that would help ease the transition from 1.025 to 1.023 SG. We'll see what the morning brings.

The poor 55 looks kinda barren being minus the fish, but with no hosts present for them the dirty little bugs should be dead in a single life cycle, but they'll get at least two months worth of no fish to infect just for good measure.

You can bet this will be the LAST time a fish makes into any display tank without spending at least a month in a new QT. Except for the pair of Clarkii's weds, but they will have the entire 180 to themselves for a while as I get the new lighting, more rock and all that good stuff, cleaning crew, so I guess that'll server as a BIG QT.

One question for ya'll, can you think of anything else besides weekly or more 10-15% water changes once the Sg is down to 1.009. Skimmer will be useless, afraid nitrates may get out of control and stir up more issues.