Achilles being Achilles
- Thread starter wickedfish
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The best thing to do for the fish right now is not to stress him out anymore. Unfortuantely ich is an issue we have all dealt with in this hobby. Feed him as much as you can with food soaked in garlic guard. I have had ich outbreaks in my tanks many times and I have been able to save my fish including 2 yellow bellied tangs and purple tangs. This was before I set up my QT tank. I have since then removed all the fish from my DT and put them all in QT let the tank stay fishless for 6 weeks and treated all my fish with cupramine and put them all back. NO FISH goes in my tank now before they are QT. QT is your friend. Good luck and hope your fish pulls through
If you approach fish ich like any human disease, the "cure" is going to be a number of things, including all the little things you do as an aquarist... such as:
specimen selection
water quality
food quality
tank mates
isolation or company
antibiotics, copper, magic bullets
etc.
etc.
For example, if your kid had a cold you would give him/her rest, good food, antibiotics, herbal remedies, chicken soup. If anyone, even a doctor, said to you: "this one thing is the cure, if you give it he/she will be good as new tomorrow" you would laugh.
Most of what everyone here is saying has validity. I dont know any experienced aquarist (like 10+) years, who really stress out about ich. Sure, they will still lose a fish here or there, or even have a tank outbreak, but its not that first date feeling of death anymore.
More blah, blah, blah from me...
specimen selection
water quality
food quality
tank mates
isolation or company
antibiotics, copper, magic bullets
etc.
etc.
For example, if your kid had a cold you would give him/her rest, good food, antibiotics, herbal remedies, chicken soup. If anyone, even a doctor, said to you: "this one thing is the cure, if you give it he/she will be good as new tomorrow" you would laugh.
Most of what everyone here is saying has validity. I dont know any experienced aquarist (like 10+) years, who really stress out about ich. Sure, they will still lose a fish here or there, or even have a tank outbreak, but its not that first date feeling of death anymore.
More blah, blah, blah from me...
I feel what your saying. The choice I made is what I'm perplexed about. Such a dumb butt. It's like you know that you shouldn't and then you do it cause "man never seen such a fat one before."
I'm not a betting man but his behavior dictates he will recover fine. Now to see what happens with the rest of the crew.
I'm not a betting man but his behavior dictates he will recover fine. Now to see what happens with the rest of the crew.
I have the answer!!!
You need to buy some of this new stuff that is a stress relief for fish, My LFS said this stuff is from the UK and everybody is talking about it, and when they started selling it, everyone had great results, and guess what I used it, and low and behold it worked.
Here is the link, oh and by the way its called Voogle
http://www.easylife.nl/english/marine_aquarium_products/voogle_marine.html
You need to buy some of this new stuff that is a stress relief for fish, My LFS said this stuff is from the UK and everybody is talking about it, and when they started selling it, everyone had great results, and guess what I used it, and low and behold it worked.
Here is the link, oh and by the way its called Voogle
http://www.easylife.nl/english/marine_aquarium_products/voogle_marine.html
So whatever it was he's looking alot better.
Last night around 1230am, the cleaner gobies gave him a licking.
It was the coolest, achilles changed colors to a pale grey after the shovel nose gobies hopped on and went to work.
Until one guy went around his junk and he or she got mad and swam
Off. Tiny lil suckers but I think they do a bang up job.
Last night around 1230am, the cleaner gobies gave him a licking.
It was the coolest, achilles changed colors to a pale grey after the shovel nose gobies hopped on and went to work.
Until one guy went around his junk and he or she got mad and swam
Off. Tiny lil suckers but I think they do a bang up job.
I think the only disheartening thing is that there's always the chance this might be in cycles.
I remember 18 months ago I setup a new 90 gallon and I had ich A week later in half of the fish. 3 weeks later with heavy feedings and kick ich(dont know if it works??) the fish were clean. Two weeks later, same thing. They got ich again.
I don't have any fish currently struggling and or not eating. Which that tells me is a good sign.
Medications: I used antibiotics in their food and in their water column. I was hesitant to add it to the water as
I have easily 5 times the $ invested in corals than fish. But oh well don't want any of my scaley bros to die.
I also use vita chem and garlic drops in their food. I have nori and romaine available all day since the Achilles loves both.
I also added ich attack last night. Ya it is dicey (especially with the corals) but man.... so is not doing anything.
So far no funny breathers or
Weird swimmers. Knock on
wood.
Since this was a new build i Still have more colonies to stick on the rocks. I don't wanna introduce my dirty hands in the tank and scare them during this ich cycle.
I remember 18 months ago I setup a new 90 gallon and I had ich A week later in half of the fish. 3 weeks later with heavy feedings and kick ich(dont know if it works??) the fish were clean. Two weeks later, same thing. They got ich again.
I don't have any fish currently struggling and or not eating. Which that tells me is a good sign.
Medications: I used antibiotics in their food and in their water column. I was hesitant to add it to the water as
I have easily 5 times the $ invested in corals than fish. But oh well don't want any of my scaley bros to die.
I also use vita chem and garlic drops in their food. I have nori and romaine available all day since the Achilles loves both.
I also added ich attack last night. Ya it is dicey (especially with the corals) but man.... so is not doing anything.
So far no funny breathers or
Weird swimmers. Knock on
wood.
Since this was a new build i Still have more colonies to stick on the rocks. I don't wanna introduce my dirty hands in the tank and scare them during this ich cycle.
