lutz493
Member
Hello -
Just some history here - Year and 2 Months ago my tank got Ick. I had no QT at the time. For the sake of my fish, I simply returned them all to the LFS and he took care of the situation, nothing died and I let him sell them all while my tank sat.
My tank sat _fishless_ for 45 calendar days. During this period I set-up a QT tank for my new additions 15H.
The last fish added to my tank was in July of 03. All of them QT'd.
No signs of ick - Everyone is healthy.
In the last 4 weeks I've started to purchase corals. I've added an anemone and ruffly 4-5 corals to my tank during that time.
I've added 2 Emerald Crabs.
My PH was a tad low as was my calc, so I have in the last 5 days started adding Alk Buffer (Superbuffer dKH by Kent) and Liquid Calcium (Kent). I've also added some Essential Elements to the tank.
Two days ago I noticed my Yellow Tang had some white spots that would look like ick on his left side. I read this forum and found that it could be some sand grains My Tang does bump into the sandbed picking at the algae growing towards the bottom of the rockwork so I assumed that to be it.
Last night my Tang was covered in over a dozen white spots both sides and some spots on his fins. They are fuzzy and protruding from the scales.
Obviously these are not sand particles.
So now I must Hypo all of my fish yes? Let the tank sit for 30+ days again so all the ick can die off.
Because of past experiences I have taken the proper pre-cautions so that a situation such as this one would not happen again.
I do not even have a QT set-up to hold all of my fish so I need to figure out a way to get 40+ gal tank set-up to hypo my livestock.
Could the corals have brought the ick larvae into the tank simply by the larvae being on the branches or on the polyps?
I will assume adding the Alk Buffer is what stressed the Tang out.
I read ick is always in our tanks dorment. If I let the tank sit for 45 days how could it survive?
What can you do differently so this stuff doesn't happen? Perform Hypo on every fish you ever QT with a UV on the QT and have an UV on the display just for extra insurance...
It seems unless you Hypo every single fish you put in the tank you are still gonna bring ick into the system..... I've been told a wrasse such as a 6-line has a thicker slime coat then something like a Tang so he could never ever show signs of Ick but bring the parasite into your display for others to become infected.
What should I be doing here? I can Hypo just the Yellow in my 15H but since I have other fish in the display the Yellow is gonna just get infected when I put'm back in.....
It it flustering to know I've taken the proper measures to protect my animals from this and it failed.
Recently Tested Water -
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate >10
PH 8.0 (3 hours after lights turned on)
Calcium 400
Just some history here - Year and 2 Months ago my tank got Ick. I had no QT at the time. For the sake of my fish, I simply returned them all to the LFS and he took care of the situation, nothing died and I let him sell them all while my tank sat.
My tank sat _fishless_ for 45 calendar days. During this period I set-up a QT tank for my new additions 15H.
The last fish added to my tank was in July of 03. All of them QT'd.
No signs of ick - Everyone is healthy.
In the last 4 weeks I've started to purchase corals. I've added an anemone and ruffly 4-5 corals to my tank during that time.
I've added 2 Emerald Crabs.
My PH was a tad low as was my calc, so I have in the last 5 days started adding Alk Buffer (Superbuffer dKH by Kent) and Liquid Calcium (Kent). I've also added some Essential Elements to the tank.
Two days ago I noticed my Yellow Tang had some white spots that would look like ick on his left side. I read this forum and found that it could be some sand grains My Tang does bump into the sandbed picking at the algae growing towards the bottom of the rockwork so I assumed that to be it.
Last night my Tang was covered in over a dozen white spots both sides and some spots on his fins. They are fuzzy and protruding from the scales.
Obviously these are not sand particles.
So now I must Hypo all of my fish yes? Let the tank sit for 30+ days again so all the ick can die off.
Because of past experiences I have taken the proper pre-cautions so that a situation such as this one would not happen again.
I do not even have a QT set-up to hold all of my fish so I need to figure out a way to get 40+ gal tank set-up to hypo my livestock.
Could the corals have brought the ick larvae into the tank simply by the larvae being on the branches or on the polyps?
I will assume adding the Alk Buffer is what stressed the Tang out.
I read ick is always in our tanks dorment. If I let the tank sit for 45 days how could it survive?
What can you do differently so this stuff doesn't happen? Perform Hypo on every fish you ever QT with a UV on the QT and have an UV on the display just for extra insurance...
It seems unless you Hypo every single fish you put in the tank you are still gonna bring ick into the system..... I've been told a wrasse such as a 6-line has a thicker slime coat then something like a Tang so he could never ever show signs of Ick but bring the parasite into your display for others to become infected.
What should I be doing here? I can Hypo just the Yellow in my 15H but since I have other fish in the display the Yellow is gonna just get infected when I put'm back in.....
It it flustering to know I've taken the proper measures to protect my animals from this and it failed.
Recently Tested Water -
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate >10
PH 8.0 (3 hours after lights turned on)
Calcium 400
