time to kick the ick...
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mavgi
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Originally Posted by hana
WOW! Do i do the Hypo, and the formalin bath at the same time? and how do i go about that? ALL fish? or just the ones with spots. hippo tang,yellow tang, and then theres my clown. The strange thing about the clown is she was never breathing hard. She would just go up to the top and lay sidesways and then swim really fast to the other side with her head going in and out of the water. She never rubed on rocks. Is this norm for brook?
1 do hypo to all the fish
2 do formalin bath just to the yellow tang that have a black spot you rains the fish put him back at the QT.because you said the he have white spot to and this is ich, and just this fish need 2 type of treatment.
3. clown fish always like to be in the top and my lay sideways to (if she don't breath hard so it wasn't brook or start of it .it was just ich )
what i realy suggest to you because your yellow tang need to treat by formalin bath and hypo to so first treat the yellow tang with the formalin bath for 4 days and after put the other fish in the QT and start to treat all with hypo it will be more easy and less strees to the yellow tang. when you treat him put him back in the Qt not in the main tank.please follow the direction of the formalin bath it's very important.
WOW! Do i do the Hypo, and the formalin bath at the same time? and how do i go about that? ALL fish? or just the ones with spots. hippo tang,yellow tang, and then theres my clown. The strange thing about the clown is she was never breathing hard. She would just go up to the top and lay sidesways and then swim really fast to the other side with her head going in and out of the water. She never rubed on rocks. Is this norm for brook?
1 do hypo to all the fish
2 do formalin bath just to the yellow tang that have a black spot you rains the fish put him back at the QT.because you said the he have white spot to and this is ich, and just this fish need 2 type of treatment.
3. clown fish always like to be in the top and my lay sideways to (if she don't breath hard so it wasn't brook or start of it .it was just ich )
what i realy suggest to you because your yellow tang need to treat by formalin bath and hypo to so first treat the yellow tang with the formalin bath for 4 days and after put the other fish in the QT and start to treat all with hypo it will be more easy and less strees to the yellow tang. when you treat him put him back in the Qt not in the main tank.please follow the direction of the formalin bath it's very important.
mavgi
Member
Originally Posted by hana
One more Q. Can i put stop paraste or kick ick in my main tank?
hippo tang
yellow tang
mandarine
sand sifter
lawnmower
wrasse
clown
4 sm. light blue group fish(?)
2 cleaner shrimp
anemone
i am sorry but when i type one line you can type one page :joy:
no do not put any of this medication on your main tank .
and again the clown do not have brook it's just ich.
One more Q. Can i put stop paraste or kick ick in my main tank?
hippo tang
yellow tang
mandarine
sand sifter
lawnmower
wrasse
clown
4 sm. light blue group fish(?)
2 cleaner shrimp
anemone
i am sorry but when i type one line you can type one page :joy:
no do not put any of this medication on your main tank .
and again the clown do not have brook it's just ich.
hana
Member
Loin. she hasnt looked like that. she might have a a couple of spots, but to me looks like something else, but very close to the pic. and only a few spots on her side.
as for her being at the top of the tank, she never did that until the spots came. Started out with her at the botton of the tank swimming in cyrcles, then she went to swimming up and down the front of the tank, then she went to staying at the top side ways, now she is up right swimming at the top. she now sleeps at the top also. she had anemone (small) a while back. and it tried to split to soon and died. So after that she always slept on the rock in the same spot her anemone was.(was very depressed
) the lfs said to get her another one. dont no if they wanted to make a sale or not, they knew she was sick, they said would make her happy. But she hasnt gone to the new one yet. Shes always at the top. I wish i could get a good picture so you could see. i will keep trying. Thanks!!!!
as for her being at the top of the tank, she never did that until the spots came. Started out with her at the botton of the tank swimming in cyrcles, then she went to swimming up and down the front of the tank, then she went to staying at the top side ways, now she is up right swimming at the top. she now sleeps at the top also. she had anemone (small) a while back. and it tried to split to soon and died. So after that she always slept on the rock in the same spot her anemone was.(was very depressed
lion_crazz
Active Member
I have used Stop Parasite with fantastic results. I have never lost a fish to ich and none of my inverts were ever affected the two times I used it on my 75 gallon tank. I recommend it to all of my customers who do not have access to a quarantine tank and they have never had negative results either. The only thing is that you need to have a pH and kH test kit in order to use Stop Parasite because it is a semi-acidic product, so if your kH is low, it will affect your pH.
The problem with QTing all of those fish at the same time is that you would need to set up a quarantine tank that is nearly as big as your display tank. I am not sure you are able to do that. Most people cannot just go out and buy a totally new tank, equipment, filters, etc.
The problem with QTing all of those fish at the same time is that you would need to set up a quarantine tank that is nearly as big as your display tank. I am not sure you are able to do that. Most people cannot just go out and buy a totally new tank, equipment, filters, etc.
lion_crazz
Active Member
As I said, I have never used Stop Parasite for black ich, but PSUSocr1, a poster who I talk to on this message board frequently, had black ich on his unicorn tang and used Stop Parasite and it got rid of it wonderfully.
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...+Stop+Parasite
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...+Stop+Parasite
lion_crazz
Active Member
Originally Posted by hana
just a thought, seems like the local collages should have a 101 class on saltwater fish keeping
some marine bio schools do actually have classes on aquarium upkeep
just a thought, seems like the local collages should have a 101 class on saltwater fish keeping
some marine bio schools do actually have classes on aquarium upkeep
lion_crazz
Active Member
Remember what I said though if you do decide to take that route. KNOW your alk and pH and test them frequently.
hana
Member
well just got back from town, and couldnt find ANY of the stuff i went to get for my fish. 
. Take that back, i did find a calcium test kit. But nothing else...
And to top it all off, i just found out that we might have to leave town for a week. So now im really not sure what to do. the person checking my fish does NOT know how to treat them for a prob. Any thoughts on this one???? :help: :help: :help: :help: :help:
. Take that back, i did find a calcium test kit. But nothing else...And to top it all off, i just found out that we might have to leave town for a week. So now im really not sure what to do. the person checking my fish does NOT know how to treat them for a prob. Any thoughts on this one???? :help: :help: :help: :help: :help:
mavgi
Member
Originally Posted by hana
Well peeps, looks like im going to loose my yellow tang. He is now laying at the bottom of the tank breathing Very hard..
Couldnt find the stop parisite today. the only thing i have is kick ick. Im so sad
Dont know if there is anything i can do at this point.
Any ideas???
sorry about that but again stop parasite will never help to cure black ich . as i said before to treat black ich you need to treat the fish with formalin bath. i donn't know how is the fish because i can't see and it's a chance that you can take it's very hard for me to tell because the fish can die because that or he will die later on (i did that with my royal grama he was almost die and he suck to the ph i decide to take the chance and i have the luck but i can not tell that it is can happend to your fish and i don't want that you blame me on that )you can try and do now a fresh water deep it can relief the fish and give hime more day till you treat him with black ich and it's can kill the fish to if he already near to that.you need to decide and to take the chance if you do it please let me know and i will give you more information but again no one can be sure in 100% what is the position of the fish now and you can lost him to.
Well peeps, looks like im going to loose my yellow tang. He is now laying at the bottom of the tank breathing Very hard..
Couldnt find the stop parisite today. the only thing i have is kick ick. Im so sad
Any ideas???
sorry about that but again stop parasite will never help to cure black ich . as i said before to treat black ich you need to treat the fish with formalin bath. i donn't know how is the fish because i can't see and it's a chance that you can take it's very hard for me to tell because the fish can die because that or he will die later on (i did that with my royal grama he was almost die and he suck to the ph i decide to take the chance and i have the luck but i can not tell that it is can happend to your fish and i don't want that you blame me on that )you can try and do now a fresh water deep it can relief the fish and give hime more day till you treat him with black ich and it's can kill the fish to if he already near to that.you need to decide and to take the chance if you do it please let me know and i will give you more information but again no one can be sure in 100% what is the position of the fish now and you can lost him to.
hana
Member
I looked every place today for the form. bath. but no one had it. at this point i will loose the fish tonight if i dont do anything, or i will loose it for stressing it out. but i would rather try something to help him. (because sitting there watching it die really sucks, and thats really what im doing)so yes give me info. please.
mavgi
Member
Originally Posted by hana
I looked every place today for the form. bath. but no one had it. at this point i will loose the fish tonight if i dont do anything, or i will loose it for stressing it out. but i would rather try something to help him. (because sitting there watching it die really sucks, and thats really what im doing)so yes give me info. please.
ok hana since the fish very sick we can not do the regular fresh water deep .
i need to know if you have air pump with air stone? you need one bucket even (minral water) and r/o water.
I looked every place today for the form. bath. but no one had it. at this point i will loose the fish tonight if i dont do anything, or i will loose it for stressing it out. but i would rather try something to help him. (because sitting there watching it die really sucks, and thats really what im doing)so yes give me info. please.
ok hana since the fish very sick we can not do the regular fresh water deep .
i need to know if you have air pump with air stone? you need one bucket even (minral water) and r/o water.