Lost Coral Beauty to Ick- next step?

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Ruth

Lorna if you have a sump just throw a piece of sponge - make sure it is just sponge and preferably get it at a LFS - in your sump (or tank if you don't have a sump) for 3 or 4 days and it should colonize with bacteria that you can then move into your quarentine tank.

If you are going to colonize a sponge or two with bacteria, do it in a tank/sump/refugium that does NOT have ich in it. There is a great likelihood that ich will travel with the sponge.