lesleybird
Active Member
Well, Hi guys....I had ich in my 90 gallon and took all the live rock out last week to treat the tank with hypo and it was a real mess as I tried to get all the live sand out (have lots of worms that would not survive hypo). I was going to start hypo but got scared as I have been reading on line that it is stressful to the fish and often does not completely get rid of the ich. Well, to get on with my story, I had a Majestic Angel in the 90 gallon that I have had for 4 years and was to get a 180 gallon for next week to put him and the goldflake angel $360, that I have in a quarenteen tank upstairs in an extra bedroom. When the Majestic angel was stressed from the ich and stopped eating I thought that I should do something fast or he would not recover. I read up on line and found that quinine and malachate green in the old Greenex that is no longer made was safe for live rock and live sand. I found some Greenex that a local fish store still had in stock and went home and added 80 drops to the 90 gallon tank. Went reading online after that and found that a handful of people had used Greenex and said it killed all their fish. Well, I had already added it and the next morning all my fish were dead except for the two clowns and a royal gramma. I did a 25 percent water change and added some carbon.
My Majestic angelfish of 4 years who I was buying the 180 gallon for was dead, bicolor blenny dead, red wrasse dead, sixline dead, lyretail antheas dead. I don't have a clue why the clowns are still fine. I also treated my goldflake angel in the 29 gallon quarenteen with the same Greenex and he is fine but still with ich, still eating.
Anyway, I had to call in sick to work that day and cried all day about the Majestic angel named Loushu. The other fish did not really matter as much, but my Majestic angel dying was heartbreaking to me. I burried him in the backyard with a large seashell as a grave marker.
I am doing better and have decided that I will really try to save my new goldflake angel and the clowns. I have decided to cure the ich using the transfer method. I will change them from one 18 gallon rubbermaid to another every two days for about 10 days to two weeks while drying and cleaning each rubbermaid inbetween and using new water. I have some duplicate stuff for the tanks like two heaters, two sets of pvc, and two powerheads. I think I will run a little bleach inbetween and put antichlorine and empty and dry every other day.
I have read that this method will work because the ich grows on the fish for 5 to 7 days and then falls off and sits in the tank for 3 to 21 plus days to mature before hatching into swimmers to re-infect the fish. If one cleans and changes to a new tank with new water every two days this cycle is broken and the fish are not reinfected and after a week or two no longer have ich. I plan to do this for about 10 days or maybe a little longer while having lots of saltwater on hand to do the changes. Will acculimate them in a one gallon bucket inbetween changes and not take any of this water into the newly cleaned rubbermaid. I will use both hands cupped around each fish to transfer as everytime I net my fish they get their face or gills or something caught in the net. I will add a lot of cycle bacteria and some Aquamel to keep the amonia from getting out of hand in the uncycled rubbermaids inbetween the every other day complete water changes.
In the mean time I am going to tear down the 29 gallon and start to re-cycle the tank so that the two clowns, the 3 inch goldflake, and royal gramma can live in their while I return the live rock to the 90 gallon for two months of fallow. Never again to not quarenteen fish! Lesley
My Majestic angelfish of 4 years who I was buying the 180 gallon for was dead, bicolor blenny dead, red wrasse dead, sixline dead, lyretail antheas dead. I don't have a clue why the clowns are still fine. I also treated my goldflake angel in the 29 gallon quarenteen with the same Greenex and he is fine but still with ich, still eating.
Anyway, I had to call in sick to work that day and cried all day about the Majestic angel named Loushu. The other fish did not really matter as much, but my Majestic angel dying was heartbreaking to me. I burried him in the backyard with a large seashell as a grave marker.
I am doing better and have decided that I will really try to save my new goldflake angel and the clowns. I have decided to cure the ich using the transfer method. I will change them from one 18 gallon rubbermaid to another every two days for about 10 days to two weeks while drying and cleaning each rubbermaid inbetween and using new water. I have some duplicate stuff for the tanks like two heaters, two sets of pvc, and two powerheads. I think I will run a little bleach inbetween and put antichlorine and empty and dry every other day.
I have read that this method will work because the ich grows on the fish for 5 to 7 days and then falls off and sits in the tank for 3 to 21 plus days to mature before hatching into swimmers to re-infect the fish. If one cleans and changes to a new tank with new water every two days this cycle is broken and the fish are not reinfected and after a week or two no longer have ich. I plan to do this for about 10 days or maybe a little longer while having lots of saltwater on hand to do the changes. Will acculimate them in a one gallon bucket inbetween changes and not take any of this water into the newly cleaned rubbermaid. I will use both hands cupped around each fish to transfer as everytime I net my fish they get their face or gills or something caught in the net. I will add a lot of cycle bacteria and some Aquamel to keep the amonia from getting out of hand in the uncycled rubbermaids inbetween the every other day complete water changes.
In the mean time I am going to tear down the 29 gallon and start to re-cycle the tank so that the two clowns, the 3 inch goldflake, and royal gramma can live in their while I return the live rock to the 90 gallon for two months of fallow. Never again to not quarenteen fish! Lesley
