I hate ICK....
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al mc
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Your best options:
1. If you have FOLR DT then hyposaline the DT.
2. If you have coral/inverts then you can move the coral/inverts to a QT tank as long as you have good lighting/water quality/water flow and then hypo the DT or move the fish to QT for hypo and leave the DT without fish for a minimum for 6 weeks.
Many swear by UV lights and other treatment regimes but hypo is the best and safest IMHO. I have been where you are.
...It is not fun, but I now have an ICK free system (I hope!) Good luck
1. If you have FOLR DT then hyposaline the DT.
2. If you have coral/inverts then you can move the coral/inverts to a QT tank as long as you have good lighting/water quality/water flow and then hypo the DT or move the fish to QT for hypo and leave the DT without fish for a minimum for 6 weeks.
Many swear by UV lights and other treatment regimes but hypo is the best and safest IMHO. I have been where you are.
sepulatian
Moderator
Please tell us what all is in your DT. How much rock do you have? Do you have LS, inverts, coral, ect.? Do you have a cycled QT tank?
lion_crazz
Active Member
Yep, as Sepulatian asked, please list everything you have in your display tank.
mtennant
Member
ok.... Well I have about 325LB of rock and 180LB of sand yes I do have lots of corals and maybe 4 inverts.. I'm starting to use a UV lights..
My QT is not ready..
Yes I do have good lights. I have 5 MH 250Watts each. My water quality is very good.. Nothing is wrong so far. And my water flow is good too.. I have so much stuff in it I can't get all the fish out or the corals out... I can maybe get all my inverts out.. Thay are much easyer. I'm I missing any thing? :thinking:
My QT is not ready..
Yes I do have good lights. I have 5 MH 250Watts each. My water quality is very good.. Nothing is wrong so far. And my water flow is good too.. I have so much stuff in it I can't get all the fish out or the corals out... I can maybe get all my inverts out.. Thay are much easyer. I'm I missing any thing? :thinking:
mtennant
Member
ok here is the list...
Keyhole Angel
Rusty Angel
yellow blennie
Clarkii Clown
blue damsel
5- 4wheel drive goby
Mandarin Dragonet
Foxface
blue hippo tang
2-yellow tangs
dotor tang
2-Wrasses
INVERTS
Bubble tip anemone
5-Clams
TONS of hermit crabs
10-Emerald crab
8-feather dusters
cleaner shrimp
I think thats it... AND LOTS OF CORAL :notsure:
Keyhole Angel
Rusty Angel
yellow blennie
Clarkii Clown
blue damsel
5- 4wheel drive goby
Mandarin Dragonet
Foxface
blue hippo tang
2-yellow tangs
dotor tang
2-Wrasses
INVERTS
Bubble tip anemone
5-Clams
TONS of hermit crabs
10-Emerald crab
8-feather dusters
cleaner shrimp
I think thats it... AND LOTS OF CORAL :notsure:
nicetry
Active Member
You have a couple of options, neither of which are easy but workable.
It's not practical to quarantine all of these fish together in one tank, unless it would be in the 100 gallon range. You can either purchase several large rubbermaid bins to house your rock, corals and inverts, and perform hyposalinity in your main tank, or you could use a couple of these bins to house/treat the fish, leaving the DT intact with rock/corals. If you opt for plan B, you need to remove the fish anyway. Drain about half the water out into containers. Remove the rock.corals from about a third of the tank leaving a large open spot. Get a helper. I fashioned a tank divider from a piece of eggcrate. Have your helper use a net to gently herd one fish at a time into the open area. Use the divider to trap the fish into this area. Once he can't get back to the rocks to hide, use the net and a capture container to gently catch the fish, and remove it to the quarantine tank. Do this for each fish. It's not hard, just time consuming. The drawback to bins as quarantine is that it's difficult to observe for symptoms from the top down. Each container, whether it housed rock or fish will need a heater and powerhead. You'll also need to have ample lighting for the corals, which is why I would suggest leaving these in the main tank, and treating the fish in separate bins. How big is your QT btw?
Once all fish are removed, replace your rock and corals to the DT.
I'd also ask, on the tang with ich, how many spots are you seeing? Have any fish been added recently, and when was the last fish added? What species of tang has the ich? A possible third approach, and while not popular, is to take a wait and see approach. I would only suggest this if the fish with visible symptoms has a very light infestation (only a few spots). Sometimes, otherwise healthy fish can stave off a parasitic outbreak, so a few spots does not always trigger a full blown outbreak. I've seen it work with success but if your fish is heavily infested, treatment is advisable.
It's not practical to quarantine all of these fish together in one tank, unless it would be in the 100 gallon range. You can either purchase several large rubbermaid bins to house your rock, corals and inverts, and perform hyposalinity in your main tank, or you could use a couple of these bins to house/treat the fish, leaving the DT intact with rock/corals. If you opt for plan B, you need to remove the fish anyway. Drain about half the water out into containers. Remove the rock.corals from about a third of the tank leaving a large open spot. Get a helper. I fashioned a tank divider from a piece of eggcrate. Have your helper use a net to gently herd one fish at a time into the open area. Use the divider to trap the fish into this area. Once he can't get back to the rocks to hide, use the net and a capture container to gently catch the fish, and remove it to the quarantine tank. Do this for each fish. It's not hard, just time consuming. The drawback to bins as quarantine is that it's difficult to observe for symptoms from the top down. Each container, whether it housed rock or fish will need a heater and powerhead. You'll also need to have ample lighting for the corals, which is why I would suggest leaving these in the main tank, and treating the fish in separate bins. How big is your QT btw?
Once all fish are removed, replace your rock and corals to the DT.
I'd also ask, on the tang with ich, how many spots are you seeing? Have any fish been added recently, and when was the last fish added? What species of tang has the ich? A possible third approach, and while not popular, is to take a wait and see approach. I would only suggest this if the fish with visible symptoms has a very light infestation (only a few spots). Sometimes, otherwise healthy fish can stave off a parasitic outbreak, so a few spots does not always trigger a full blown outbreak. I've seen it work with success but if your fish is heavily infested, treatment is advisable.
mtennant
Member
Well I got all the tangs out and in the QT tank... Its a 75 gallon i know its small for them but so far the ICK is going away... But its been about almost a week so far... And i'm happy to say that thay are looking very good so far... I can't wait to put them back to my DT tank.... Thank you people for all your help... I'm useing eveything that I have to get the ICK off of them...
mtennant
Member
the only fish that as ICK is my 7" blue hippo tang... And when I frist saw the ICK on him it was all over him and now its about 5 spots now.... And he is my newest fish... So yea I will naver order a fish from a web site. I would say the web site but I don't think the SWF.com will let me... And no its not them... SWF.com as been very good to me and it will be the only place I will get my fish from now on!!!!!!!!! Thank you SWF.com
mtennant
Member
Originally Posted by nicetry
You have a couple of options, neither of which are easy but workable.
It's not practical to quarantine all of these fish together in one tank, unless it would be in the 100 gallon range. You can either purchase several large rubbermaid bins to house your rock, corals and inverts, and perform hyposalinity in your main tank, or you could use a couple of these bins to house/treat the fish, leaving the DT intact with rock/corals. If you opt for plan B, you need to remove the fish anyway. Drain about half the water out into containers. Remove the rock.corals from about a third of the tank leaving a large open spot. Get a helper. I fashioned a tank divider from a piece of eggcrate. Have your helper use a net to gently herd one fish at a time into the open area. Use the divider to trap the fish into this area. Once he can't get back to the rocks to hide, use the net and a capture container to gently catch the fish, and remove it to the quarantine tank. Do this for each fish. It's not hard, just time consuming. The drawback to bins as quarantine is that it's difficult to observe for symptoms from the top down. Each container, whether it housed rock or fish will need a heater and powerhead. You'll also need to have ample lighting for the corals, which is why I would suggest leaving these in the main tank, and treating the fish in separate bins. How big is your QT btw?
Once all fish are removed, replace your rock and corals to the DT.
I'd also ask, on the tang with ich, how many spots are you seeing? Have any fish been added recently, and when was the last fish added? What species of tang has the ich? A possible third approach, and while not popular, is to take a wait and see approach. I would only suggest this if the fish with visible symptoms has a very light infestation (only a few spots). Sometimes, otherwise healthy fish can stave off a parasitic outbreak, so a few spots does not always trigger a full blown outbreak. I've seen it work with success but if your fish is heavily infested, treatment is advisable.
Thank you so much.. The eggcrate and net help me alot!!!!!
You have a couple of options, neither of which are easy but workable.
It's not practical to quarantine all of these fish together in one tank, unless it would be in the 100 gallon range. You can either purchase several large rubbermaid bins to house your rock, corals and inverts, and perform hyposalinity in your main tank, or you could use a couple of these bins to house/treat the fish, leaving the DT intact with rock/corals. If you opt for plan B, you need to remove the fish anyway. Drain about half the water out into containers. Remove the rock.corals from about a third of the tank leaving a large open spot. Get a helper. I fashioned a tank divider from a piece of eggcrate. Have your helper use a net to gently herd one fish at a time into the open area. Use the divider to trap the fish into this area. Once he can't get back to the rocks to hide, use the net and a capture container to gently catch the fish, and remove it to the quarantine tank. Do this for each fish. It's not hard, just time consuming. The drawback to bins as quarantine is that it's difficult to observe for symptoms from the top down. Each container, whether it housed rock or fish will need a heater and powerhead. You'll also need to have ample lighting for the corals, which is why I would suggest leaving these in the main tank, and treating the fish in separate bins. How big is your QT btw?
Once all fish are removed, replace your rock and corals to the DT.
I'd also ask, on the tang with ich, how many spots are you seeing? Have any fish been added recently, and when was the last fish added? What species of tang has the ich? A possible third approach, and while not popular, is to take a wait and see approach. I would only suggest this if the fish with visible symptoms has a very light infestation (only a few spots). Sometimes, otherwise healthy fish can stave off a parasitic outbreak, so a few spots does not always trigger a full blown outbreak. I've seen it work with success but if your fish is heavily infested, treatment is advisable.
Thank you so much.. The eggcrate and net help me alot!!!!!
mtennant
Member
Originally Posted by K-ROK
Heres what I do - get a large net and place it in the tank (standing up) so the fish get used to it being there. Then, at feeding time when all the fish come out of the rock scoop them up. May not work as well for you as you have many fish. Worth a try though.
Thanks I will keep that in mind!!!!
Heres what I do - get a large net and place it in the tank (standing up) so the fish get used to it being there. Then, at feeding time when all the fish come out of the rock scoop them up. May not work as well for you as you have many fish. Worth a try though.
Thanks I will keep that in mind!!!!
sepulatian
Moderator
Did you catch them to hypo them?
sepulatian
Moderator
Great, keep us posted on your progress and ask any questions you may have.