Advice Please!!!!

[looneytoons]

I've had my 75 gal. tank for about 7 weeks. It went through a mild cycle. I started out with 30 lbs of live rock and have slowly added to it. I'm now up to 50 lbs. I have the two original damsels that I cycled the tank, 1 cleaner shrimp, two peppermint shrimp, one emerald crab, at least 30 various crabs (hermits) and 4 snails (conch), mushrooms, 330 VHO, and CC (probaly not best choice). I've had a spike of any sort in the aquarium. I check the water all the time it always right where it should be. THis scares me. Is it the calm before the storm?????Too top it all off, my new yellow tang is fighting ICH. He's putting up a great fight. I can't catch him to treat him, I tried garlic, whats next??? Where do I go from here????

 

[beth]

Well, you keep trying to catch the tang. If you can't, eventually he will die in the tank. In the meantime, you must not add any more fish to this system. In fact, I'd recommend not adding anything else for the time being until the ick problem is resolved one way or the the other.
Of course, if you are able to catch the tang, then you will need to place the fish in isolation for a month and administer hyposalinity. Your main tank must remain fishless for 4-6 wks in order to clear it of the parasite for future fish.
If you need more help with disease problem, please visit us at the Disease Forum.

 

[shootonsite]

Ich will always be present in a tank. Treating can often make things worse. It really depends on the condition of the fish and the quality of the water. When they are stressed, they are more susceptible to it. That is why you'll find so many infected at your lfs (because of shipping for example). Concentrate more on enhancing the strength of the fish through proper food and vitamins. Often, ich will get out of hand and cause more stress leaving the fish vulnerable to terminal diseases. It's not really the ich that kills it. Think of it as an approach to deal with it from the inside out. Proper diet and water quality is the safest way to deal with ich.

 

[tropicalreefs]

Anthem is right. That's problem with not using a QT. One fish infects the rest and there's no easy way of catching them after you've put them in your reef to treat them and they continue to pass it around.

 

[salty james]

i concur

 

[shootonsite]

Those are the answers I would expect from amateurs. Ich is a parasite that can have a long incubation period. If water quality decreases combined with a stressed fish, the incubation ends and the attack begins. Just because fish aren't infected, doesn't mean its not there.
Damn, I work great under pressure.

 

[tropicalreefs]

You are such a loser.

 

[fishfreek]

shootsonsite, hypo REALLY WORKS TO RID YOUR TANK OF ******!!! I've tried it and successfully compleated the prosess a few months back. These guys are not amatures and i know where you are comming from (old school of thought). Before joining ths board i thought the same. Now i KNOW this is very possable in any contained reef system. I have read your posts and think you definatly have alot to contribute to this board, just try to have an open mind and listen to what others here have learned. IMO ,this hobby is an ever on going learning process and always will be. That is what really keeps me so intrested in it.

 

[salty james]

Geez...
Cant we all just get along..
IMO Hypo is the only *fish* safe cure for ich. Some meds work, but shorten the life of your fish.
Again IMO
SJ

 

[m1rodrig]

As far as I understood and have read ick is not present in the water all the time but actually on the fish,and when they get stressed out it erupts on the fish and then get into the tank and transfer onto other fish.Please correct me if I'm wrong.Another thing that pops into my head is how do you explain a fish that you have had for a long time breaking out with ick without introducing any new fish.

 

[papafish]

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[papafish]

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