Ick in reef tank

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by Katz
http:///forum/post/2490615
Florida Joe,
I have never had ich in my system before this. I have always QT my fish for six weeks. All of my fish except the two mention died over a period on four days due to stray voltage.
I think all the stress of losing all of his tank mates caused him to get ich along with the chromis.
I had the blue green chromis for almost two years and the Sailfin for almost four months..
Sepulatian,
I will be starting the hypo process tomorrow after I give them a day to get use to going from a 125 to a 20g tank.
I fresh water dipped both of them before putting them in the QT, so hopefuly that got some germs off of them.
I am sure that I will have a lot of questions as I start this process.
Katz
We will be here.

 

[florida joe]

Maybe this is something you should consider if you never had ick in your tank and you QT all your fish for 6 weeks with no signs of ick IMO “ there can be no ick in your tank” but it may be another parasite that is mimicking the white spots of ick in that case you may have to use a chemical treatment Stress can lower a fish’s ability to fight off the disease but it has to be present. It cannot manifest its self from stress alone