RED ALERT. I have ich

[cveach]

Man this sucks. My 75gal reef with ZERO Nitrate,Nitrites, amonia. Established for 6years. For no apparent reason my fish have broken out with Cryptocarion, ICH. I have delt with ICH and plan on treating with removing my fish from the reef for 45 days placing them in 2 20gal longs for the period of time and treat them with copper. My fish are: 1 Yellow Tang show no Spots. 1 Hippo Regal Tang, spots on head and side. 1 Sailfin Tang Spots on left fin. and 1 Tomato Clown with one spot on left side and cleaner wrasse. Any ideas on new treatment would be apreciated although I do rule out Hypo salinty I do not like that form of treatment. There were NO spots this morning and now there are I will begin treatment tomrrow. TREY - what would you do. I feed Zoo Plankton soaked in Kent Zoe. Seaweed slects soaked in Zoe. Krill in zoe Formula 2 they feed freely on Macro Algae all health is PERFECT except for the spots that have appeared not even ITCHING.
[ May 11, 2001: Message edited by: cveach ]

 

[cveach]

After sleeping on it I decided to go alittle unorthodox and left the the fish in the reef. I am trying to increase there feeding and protein intake while I purchashed a Aqua UV sterilizer. The fish are in excellent health so I hope there imune system can fight it off with the help of the UV. ANY input from experiences with UV and ICH would we aprreciated.

 

[dseiler]

It may be a coincidence, but since I added my UV I have not had an outbreak of ICK. I had a couple of outbreaks before I put it on so it works for me!

 

[angie118]

I also use a uv and have not seen any ick on any of the fish since.

 

[jimi]

Cveach why not hyposalinity? I thought you liked that method? Did you add anything new betwwen now and your last ich outbreak? Maybe you did not get them all from your last outbreak.

 

[cveach]

My Sailfin Tang does NOT like hyposalinty at all for some reason. Very bad reactions. Plus I find it hard on the fish when they go back to 1.025 which I keep my reef at. On the plus side the fish show no signs of the parasite in 24hrs never itched and I now have the UV. I currently have the cleaner wrasse I may add a cleaner shrimp as well if I notice a relapse I will treat in qt tanks for 45days. The salifin will have to be treated with copper.

 

[pufferlover]

My Sailfin which I have had since Dec 99 has had 3 Ick outbreaks and each time with copper has come back strong. I use seacure at a 0.15 content for 21 to 30 days depending on how the fish cleans up. The one time the poor thing was a mess and I gave it no hope but within days of treating it was its old self.

 

[cveach]

Happy to report no further sypmtoms of ICH. Everyone seems just fine so I will just keep a close eye.