coral keeper
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How do i get rid of ich? I have a stars and strips puffer, foxface, coral beauty, and 2 yellow tailed damsels.
Need help with ich!
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sepulatian
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Originally Posted by Coral Keeper
How do i get rid of ich? I have a stars and strips puffer, foxface, coral beauty, and 2 yellow tailed damsels.
What do you have in your display and how large is it? How much LR and LS do you have? Is the LS true LS or live in bacteria?
How do i get rid of ich? I have a stars and strips puffer, foxface, coral beauty, and 2 yellow tailed damsels.
What do you have in your display and how large is it? How much LR and LS do you have? Is the LS true LS or live in bacteria?
coral keeper
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Its a 25 gallon fish only tank, its got 7 lb of live rock and about 30 lb of sand.And there is a stars and strips puffer, foxface, coral beauty angel, and 2 yellow tailed damsels. They all have ich exept the foxface i doont see it scraching and i dont see any white spots.
1journeyman
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Good Heavens... the stress from overstocking in the tank is clearly not helping the issue.
Read the thread at the top of this forum on "hyposalinty" treatment. You will need to use a QT tank as hyposalinity will kill your rock and sand.
Read the thread at the top of this forum on "hyposalinty" treatment. You will need to use a QT tank as hyposalinity will kill your rock and sand.
coral keeper
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So hyposalinty is getting the salinity to 1.009 right?
coral keeper
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So this is how it gos, (tell me if im rong) you get the fish and put it in a diff tank and get the salt lvl down to 1.009, and in the main tank there is no fish so the ich dies because there is no fish in the main tank right?
1journeyman
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Originally Posted by Coral Keeper
So this is how it gos, (tell me if im rong) you get the fish and put it in a diff tank and get the salt lvl down to 1.009, and in the main tank there is no fish so the ich dies because there is no fish in the main tank right?
You lower salinity in seperate tank over the course of a couple of days. If this tank is not currently set up and cycled then that will need to be addressed.
Then, yes, if your display tank is "fallow" (no fish of any kind) for 4 weeks or so the ich's life cycle is destroyed.
So this is how it gos, (tell me if im rong) you get the fish and put it in a diff tank and get the salt lvl down to 1.009, and in the main tank there is no fish so the ich dies because there is no fish in the main tank right?
You lower salinity in seperate tank over the course of a couple of days. If this tank is not currently set up and cycled then that will need to be addressed.
Then, yes, if your display tank is "fallow" (no fish of any kind) for 4 weeks or so the ich's life cycle is destroyed.
coral keeper
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YAY!!! But will the salinity at 1.009 kill the ich off the fish in the QT tank?
1journeyman
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Originally Posted by Coral Keeper
YAY!!! But will the salinity at 1.009 kill the ich off the fish in the QT tank?
Yes, over time.
Read Beth's post I referred you too. She's the expert.
YAY!!! But will the salinity at 1.009 kill the ich off the fish in the QT tank?
Yes, over time.
Read Beth's post I referred you too. She's the expert.
coral keeper
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I did read it.
coral keeper
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Can i just get the salt lvl down to 1.009 in the main tank?
coral keeper
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The biggest tank i have is a empty 10 gall, so can i just get the salt lvl down to 1.009 in the main tank?
coral keeper
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Anyone!?!? I need some help as fast as possible!!!! PLZZZZZZZZZZZZ HELP!!!!!!!
donice
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I had ick on my blue tang and I have a reef tank, I'm useing (Kyolic aged garlic extract liquid) It's been 3 days and I am noticeing it is going away. You soad there food in it. I used a cube of brine and been feeding a little bit a few times a day so I make sure there eating it. It looks alot better. Oh and also I found the garlic at a gnc.
hocky
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Originally Posted by donice
I had ick on my blue tang and I have a reef tank, I'm useing (Kyolic aged garlic extract liquid) It's been 3 days and I am noticeing it is going away. You soad there food in it. I used a cube of brine and been feeding a little bit a few times a day so I make sure there eating it. It looks alot better. Oh and also I found the garlic at a gnc.
It probably looks better because it is naturally starting to drop off. It will come back much worse.
If you do hypo in the display, all of your inverts/rock/sand will die.
I had ick on my blue tang and I have a reef tank, I'm useing (Kyolic aged garlic extract liquid) It's been 3 days and I am noticeing it is going away. You soad there food in it. I used a cube of brine and been feeding a little bit a few times a day so I make sure there eating it. It looks alot better. Oh and also I found the garlic at a gnc.
It probably looks better because it is naturally starting to drop off. It will come back much worse.
If you do hypo in the display, all of your inverts/rock/sand will die.
