sailfin tang with ich in my reef!!!

[komet]

Is there a chance my tang will recover??? I also have a flame angel, coral beauty, cleaner wrasse, canary wrasse and 4 stripe damsel. Is ich lethal to corals and inverts??? What should I do?? My tank is 100 gallons and I have around 10 types of soft corals.

 

[fishfreek]

If you can't or don't want to remove all your fish from your reef for treatment, try using garlic soaked foods. This will boost immune systems and help the fish fight the ick off. I use kyolic brand liquid garlic from GNC health food stores. This is totally reef safe! Add 6-8 drops to nori, seaweed selects or any frozen foods. Let the garlic soak in the food good for 20 min or so and feed. I suggest using garlic on all foods for six weeks, after that, use it one or twice a week as a prevenitive measure. HTH

 

[wingnut]

and get a clearner shrimp or 2

 

[y2says]

How come your cleaner wrasse doesn't clean him off? Use garlic soaked foods to help rid of it. I'm going through the same thing with my coral beauty. I just noticed it tonight that there are a few white specks on him. Hopefully my cleaner shrimp will clean him. If not I have some foods that is soaking in water with chopped up garlic overnight. This usually works for me. Cleaners shrimps are great since once in a while my blue tang has ick and the next day it's gone.

 

[y2says]

I agree with you Terry, but one thing is trying to get the fish out of the tank. Granted the sailfin should be pretty easy to get out, but smaller fishes like dwarf angels are tough. You'll have to tear the whole tank apart. I have over 200lbs of LR in my tank and there's no way I'll be able to get my coral beauty out. Cleaners shrimps help rid the disease and garlic help prevents it, but you have to look at what's causing it; lack of foods/vitamins, aggresiveness from other inhabitants, poor water quality or just a bad specimen. I have a sailfin myself for over a year and I've seen this fish go through hell and back where most others didn't make it. They're one of the hardier tangs out there. Komet, what are you feeding it, other fishes, water quality?

 

[y2says]

I guess mine is easy since he will eat off my hand.

 

[pstanley]

Well you are always "able" to get fish out...it is just a question as to whether or not you want to destroy your tank that you spent so long getting just right

 

[pstanley]

I tried draining my tank down that far trying to catch a damsel. They get into the smallest cracks and crevices. I still had to remove most of my live rock to get him out. Draining might work for you but it definately didn't work for me lol.

 

[miner]

What works for me is
Make up a devider that fits in the tank at one end. Get the fish to that end and trap him. It is very easy to get him out then. I just remove my rock to the opposite end of the tank. It takes very little time and you don't have to remove all of your rock. HTH