Very Tired of dealing with parasites...

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Long story but ever since my move about 7 months ago, things have never been the same with my tank. I have not been able to get rid of the ich in the system. Before the move, I QT'd everything that went into the tank even corals. I never had ich. That was about a year ich free.

After a disaster of a move where I lost a bunch of fish and all my corals, the fish that did make it, suddenly had ich! Where the heck did it come from all of a sudden???? Nothing was added. They were stressed though. So it must have been there all along. I QT's them in hypo for 6 weeks. LR was QT'd in a different tank and some was even dry. Two weeks after setting up the display, ich again. So I figured 6 weeks was not enough. I did it all over again for 8 weeks. After the 8 weeks, nothing new added, I put them all back in the display. After about two weeks, ich again! So I decided to just try to let them fight it off. They have done very well and the outbreaks are now very, very minor and only effect the two puffers. I don't understand why hypo is not working this time. I have calibrated my refractometer so many times and used my brothers as well. Got 1.008 every time. Im sure the salinity was low enough. It seemed to have gone. I never saw white spots for three to four weeks. But it always comes back.

Anyways I am sick of dealing with this and think I may give up saltwater for a while. I am traveling for work quite often now and may be away for 3 months at a time. I don't want to leave my fiance in charge of a tank with parasites...its not fair to her. I just don't have the time or energy for this right now.

So I think I am going to try to go back to freshwater puffers for now. I love Fahaka Puffers and think my tank would be perfect for one. Way cheaper to maintain and WAY less disease to ever deal with.

Anyways, how would you guys go about this? I need to first find homes for my fish and corals I guess and then sell my skimmer and whatever equipment I won't need. My dilemma is though, how do I find homes for fish that need to be QT'd again??? Should I do it myself before selling them? I just can't figure out how to go about this. Most of the fish have no signs of ich but I don't want to sell them and not tell people they have been exposed. What would you guys do?

And then the biggest dilemma for me is that I am very attached to my fish. Its going to be so hard to let them go even though I think its for their own good because I don't have the time to help them. But how likely is it that I can find a good home for them? I think I know of someone who may be able to take the Burrfish and I know will give her a great home! But as for the others I have no idea. I don't want to just post an ad and have them go to random homes. Man I have no idea what to do

Any advice or suggestions would be great right now. I don't know where to start to get these guys to a good home.

This is whats in the tank now:

4" Burrfish
5" Dogface
6" Niger Trigger
5" Blue Spotted Rabbitfish
2" Coral Beauty (will talk to original owner about him though)
3" Cleaner Wrasse
5" Fu Manchu Lion
4" Stripped Cardinal
A bunch of damsels

After writing this I am not even sure I can let them go...Maybe another shot at QT? I just don't have the space to QT them all. And I don't mean tanks, I mean physically in my place I can't set up a bunch of rubbermaids again. Not to mention I will be away a lot and not able to monitor QT which is so important.