Disaster!
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imarkspeed
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WELL...... same thing happen to me
i couldnt say anything works unless u put them in a seprate tank with nothing in it and putting the BLUE STUFF sorry dont know the name but u cant use it with corals. i didnt have luck . i tried everything even uv light . now if they all passed away best advise is DONT PUT ANY FISH FOR LIKE A MONTH OR MORE. The ick is still in ur tank and the only way they will die is if there is no fish. i havnt put any fish for like 3 months and i put a baby blue tang and it still got it . something that could trigger it is the temp flux. check it all the time . it cant flux over or under 2-3 dgrees . and check ur water . tangs and angels and to easy to get sick and kill everything . good luck
imarkspeed
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Ich is commonly treated using hybosalinity or copper. Cupramine is the most stable copper product. It requires a compatible copper test kit.
flower
Well-Known Member
Originally Posted by imarkspeed
http:///forum/post/3103968
WELL...... same thing happen to me
i couldnt say anything works unless u put them in a seprate tank with nothing in it and putting the BLUE STUFF sorry dont know the name but u cant use it with corals. i didnt have luck . i tried everything even uv light . now if they all passed away best advise is DONT PUT ANY FISH FOR LIKE A MONTH OR MORE. The ick is still in ur tank and the only way they will die is if there is no fish. i havnt put any fish for like 3 months and i put a baby blue tang and it still got it . something that could trigger it is the temp flux. check it all the time . it cant flux over or under 2-3 dgrees . and check ur water . tangs and angels and to easy to get sick and kill everything . good luck
at the risk of upsetting some people..I answer, can't help myself...
So sorry to hear of your losses...Your advice is right on..if everything is dead let it sit empty..but inverts, and coral are not affected by ich so something else is going on.
As for ich in a reef...The only thing I was able to do was to give my hippo tang, shrimp soaked in fresh garlic...I upped the heat to 82-84 to help boost its immunity and purchased two large cleaner shrimps. It has been quite awhile and my tang has been ich free...I think 6 months now...your hippo may have had ich from where you bought it from and you may have reintroduced ich into the DT...
http:///forum/post/3103968
WELL...... same thing happen to me
at the risk of upsetting some people..I answer, can't help myself...
So sorry to hear of your losses...Your advice is right on..if everything is dead let it sit empty..but inverts, and coral are not affected by ich so something else is going on.
As for ich in a reef...The only thing I was able to do was to give my hippo tang, shrimp soaked in fresh garlic...I upped the heat to 82-84 to help boost its immunity and purchased two large cleaner shrimps. It has been quite awhile and my tang has been ich free...I think 6 months now...your hippo may have had ich from where you bought it from and you may have reintroduced ich into the DT...
imarkspeed
Member
well they told me to drop the temp because it slows ick down from growing and lower the salinity but not to much because of the corals . and yea corals and inverts dont get anything .
flower
Well-Known Member
Originally Posted by imarkspeed
http:///forum/post/3103978
well they told me to drop the temp because it slows ick down from growing and lower the salinity but not to much because of the corals . and yea corals and inverts dont get anything .
No, no...you misunderstood me....
ich does not affect inverts or corals..if they are dying than it isn't ich that killed them.
Lower the salinity is hypo which works very well but you can't do that in a reef.
Cooler temps do slow everything down, that’s why people keep the tank at 79-80.
However the fish ..Hippo Tangs in particular...likes warm water, so upping the temp, and offering fresh garlic soaked shrimp boosts the fishes natural immunity to be able to fight off the ich...if ich can't attach to a healthy fish the ich dies off in the tank...in a reef it is just about the only thing to do.
A reef with ich is the worst case scenario...you can't use meds and you can't do hypo. Putting all your fish in a tiny QT just compounds the problem and stresses them more.
I had given up...tried boosting the immunity...and just left it alone. I expected all my fish to die...then I would wait 8 weeks before adding any fish so ich would die out...but no fish died...it worked.
http:///forum/post/3103978
well they told me to drop the temp because it slows ick down from growing and lower the salinity but not to much because of the corals . and yea corals and inverts dont get anything .
No, no...you misunderstood me....
ich does not affect inverts or corals..if they are dying than it isn't ich that killed them.
Lower the salinity is hypo which works very well but you can't do that in a reef.
Cooler temps do slow everything down, that’s why people keep the tank at 79-80.
However the fish ..Hippo Tangs in particular...likes warm water, so upping the temp, and offering fresh garlic soaked shrimp boosts the fishes natural immunity to be able to fight off the ich...if ich can't attach to a healthy fish the ich dies off in the tank...in a reef it is just about the only thing to do.
A reef with ich is the worst case scenario...you can't use meds and you can't do hypo. Putting all your fish in a tiny QT just compounds the problem and stresses them more.
I had given up...tried boosting the immunity...and just left it alone. I expected all my fish to die...then I would wait 8 weeks before adding any fish so ich would die out...but no fish died...it worked.
spanko
Active Member
Originally Posted by UgotKTFO
I recently lost all my fish in a period of two days.
If there are no fish in the tank now just leave it that way for at least 6 weeks, longer is better. This is called leaving the tank fallow (without fish)
This will break the life cycle of the Ich as it will have no fish to act as a host and will die out.
I recently lost all my fish in a period of two days.
If there are no fish in the tank now just leave it that way for at least 6 weeks, longer is better. This is called leaving the tank fallow (without fish)
This will break the life cycle of the Ich as it will have no fish to act as a host and will die out.
