i thought it was ich

[hartman413]

well i thought i had ich... but now i am not sure. can anyone tell me does ich only show up on fish @ certain times of the day. i was pretty sure i had ich so i rasied the temp and treated my tank seeming how i dont have any corals. THe first time i thought i saw it my two clowns were covered. it was late so i wasn't able to get to the LFS. when i woke up in the AM all they spots were gona. But just to be safe i went to the LFS and got some ich treatment. I figured better safe than sorry maybe the ich had already moved onto the next stage. so i removed my carbon and added the treatment. and like i said all the spots were gone from my clowns... That night i came home from dinner and bam white spots again... but not as many as the first time. so i check the water parametes. everything was perfect ph=8.3 trate=10 trite=0 SG=1.024 Am=0. so i went to bed and woke up and its a miracle no more spots. anyways what i am getting @ is the spots only seem to appear @ night.... i had a slight outbreak of hydroid jellyfish. could i still have them and they are stinging my clowns( btw the fiance' named them john and dawn... until she found out the female isthe fat one lol) anyways i am just not sure kind of confused unless the ich is just falling off onto the next stage in the middle of the night. could my light be causing this?????? i am just wondering

 

[hot883]

Does not sound like ich to me. It will not go away and come back so soon. Could they be digging around in the sand at night? look in there with the lights off at night and see what they are doing. If you have live rock, live sand, you have now probably killed it with the medication.

 

[hartman413]

my buddy said the meds is lr and ls safe... my lr has tons of feather dusters on it and they r still alive. i do have one lr that they hide under and they seem to pick @ it and sumtimes dig in the sand. but i dunno i think i am going to stop treatment

 

[hartman413]

great now my purple algae is getting all these red and orange spots all over it i think i killed everything in my tank with these meds. ???
i dunno guess it is time to start over

 

[xdave]

This is ich, real bad case I might add.

 

[hartman413]

see it looks similar to that but seriously when i turn the lights off and go to bed it is like the ich fairy comes and takes it all away cause in a matter of 8 hours of sleep it is gone totally. and alot of people say that ich doesn't do that

 

[hartman413]

anyone ever seen white patched on your LR???? i got a few small white patches but i can't seem to remember if there was any purple there.. you know in all honesty i just ordered a 48 x 96 piece of 1/2 acrylic... maybe i will just build a new tank and maybe turn my 20 into the fuge...... speaking of which i have a ton of questions about a fuge. but i will post a new thread for that

 

[my way]

Look in the Equipment Diy forums there have been a ton of Sump/Fuge threads, chances are you will find all the info you want.

 

[hartman413]

yeai have been actually found a great website for one lots of ideas and options.so i am golden plus i have worked with acrylic before in making su

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