Got ICK my fish are DYING, HELP PLEASE GUYS

eddiesamuil

eddiesamuil

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HI
I am new here on the site, any way please guys help me because I already lost my saddleback and my Heniochus already the stuff is all over my 2 percula, blue hippo and my long horn cowfish. I have a 55gal reef with inverts. a sump system. up for a year. which method should I use or what products should I buy to get rid of this
 
rngr175

rngr175

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try soaking frozen brine in one of the liquid garlic supplements. if that does not work you could try no sick fish i have had success with both
 
mess88

mess88

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me myself i do a fresh water drip. two minute is fresh water should kill the ich. If fish are still healthy go for it. ich be gone in 10 minutes.. If fish are weak you may have to try something else. If they ate today i go for it. I got a clown trigger had ich . two minute in fresh water. it was gone bye next day. My fish had eye fluke two in fresh water. gone. I have great luck with fresh water drips. Some don't like it.
 
mess88

mess88

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If you go with the drip. I would also put marine- max in your tank. This is what i treated ich in a 90 gal with live rock. Marine-max is safe reef tanks. like i said some may not like this way. If fish are health and eating i go for it. good luck.
 
eddiesamuil

eddiesamuil

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Originally Posted by mess88
me myself i do a fresh water drip. two minute is fresh water should kill the ich. If fish are still healthy go for it. ich be gone in 10 minutes.. If fish are weak you may have to try something else. If they ate today i go for it. I got a clown trigger had ich . two minute in fresh water. it was gone bye next day. My fish had eye fluke two in fresh water. gone. I have great luck with fresh water drips. Some don't like it.
what is fresh water dips, please give me steps, thanks for the replys guys
 
mess88

mess88

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you got a fresh water tank running. like cidlid tank. take that water and put in a bowl . put fish in bowl for two minute and put him back into the salt water tank. you should see the ich fall off.
 
eddiesamuil

eddiesamuil

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Originally Posted by mess88
you got a fresh water tank running. like cidlid tank. take that water and put in a bowl . put fish in bowl for two minute and put him back into the salt water tank. you should see the ich fall off.
put a saltwater fish in a fresh water bowl and it won't die!!!!!!!
 
mess88

mess88

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10-4 two minute only search fresh water drip. water should be same ph if you can every time i have got the water from my cidlid tank
 
eddiesamuil

eddiesamuil

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Originally Posted by mess88
10-4 two minute only search fresh water drip. water should be same ph if you can every time i have got the water from my cidlid tank
please just be patient with me but I don't get what you mean in what you said in last post
 
mess88

mess88

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can you get fresh water from a fish tank and if so. The water need to have a PH reading close to yours. thats the first thing to do. than get a bowl with that water catch fish , than put in bowl for two minute and than put him back in your tank. do this with ever fish.
 
mess88

mess88

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I' m not a pro at this stuff. but i hate to ever lose a fish. this is what worked best for me. try one fish and see if it work. right noe i have 50 cidlids and 3 salt water fish. So have have treated alot of fish. If you didn't have the live rock you could go with rid ick.(good stuff) you could qt them and you that stuff. try the drip if you don't want to qt them
 
eddiesamuil

eddiesamuil

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Originally Posted by mess88
I' m not a pro at this stuff. but i hate to ever lose a fish. this is what worked best for me. try one fish and see if it work. right noe i have 50 cidlids and 3 salt water fish. So have have treated alot of fish. If you didn't have the live rock you could go with rid ick.(good stuff) you could qt them and you that stuff. try the drip if you don't want to qt them
I just lost one more fish right now tiger watchman goby, fu**
:scared: :mad: I will do the dip tomorrow morning
 
mess88

mess88

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if fish are weak i would not do the dip. never did drip on weak fish. if they are weak put rock in bucket for a couple of week and treat with rid ick on tank the rid ick will hurt the live rock.
 
eddiesamuil

eddiesamuil

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Originally Posted by mess88
if fish are weak i would not do the dip. never did drip on weak fish. if they are weak put rock in bucket for a couple of week and treat with rid ick on tank the rid ick will hurt the live rock.
if I use marine max, and the garlic and the sick fish all on my tank will this work :notsure:
 
f14peter

f14peter

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Please note that FW dips and bottled treatments will only remove the ich parasites from the fish . . . it will not kill the ich in the tank. Odds are nearly 100% that the ich will at some point return to the fish since the parasite will still be in the tank.
Garlic is presumed to boost a fish's immune system and allow it to resist ich, again it will not cure (as in kill) ich.
Hyposalinty or copper treatments in a QT, while having the tank run fallow (fishless) will truly get rid of the parasite from the tank, and QT new specimens to determine if they have ich will keep it away.
Please refer to this thread for all you want to know about ich and how to deal with it . . .
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=127007
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

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Originally Posted by f14peter
Please note that FW dips and bottled treatments will only remove the ich parasites from the fish . . . it will not kill the ich in the tank. Odds are nearly 100% that the ich will at some point return to the fish since the parasite will still be in the tank.
Garlic is presumed to boost a fish's immune system and allow it to resist ich, again it will not cure (as in kill) ich.
Hyposalinty or copper treatments in a QT, while having the tank run fallow (fishless) will truly get rid of the parasite from the tank, and QT new specimens to determine if they have ich will keep it away.
Please refer to this thread for all you want to know about ich and how to deal with it . . .
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=127007
Well put!! Also please note that FW dips can be very stressfull to the fish if you do not know what you are doing and, as stated, will only remove the parasites from the fish's body. Some fish are very sensitive to copper treatments. Hyposalinity is the preferred method. There are directions for that in the above link.
 
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