Ich

[Adrock]

If all the fish are eating Don't sweat it feed good food, keep good water and you'll be fine.

+1 good advise!

 

[Adrock]

here is one of my fav refrences from that book

 

[Adrock]

here is another book that I love kinda expensive

 

[pgr11]

Adrock also has a good recipe for ich

 

[Adrock]

yes check out my sponsor thread and check it out
I found it to be a very effective treatment for fish in reef aquariums when they cant be removed and put into a Hospital qt for treatment

 

[Assyrian fish guy]

I used to do copper when I first got in to the hobby and rushed everything and had a bunch of sick fish. Then I tried hypo a few months ago when I had one sick fish, which is supposed to be much easier on the fish. I treated all fish in the tank immediately - do not waste time thinking you don't need to treat them all, I have made this mistake. None of the other fish ever got it and they first fish recovered within a couple of days and never showed white spot since.

In my experience hypo results in much less stress on the fish if caught early, ich will literally fall off the fish overnight, although you must keep them in hypo for several weeks to make sure the parasites die. The fish get healthy quickly with less stress (most fish do fine in 1.010 SG), which results in lower mortality rates.

so say am setting up a new qt. I get the water to 1.10. how long would have have to run a drip line to acclimate the new fish going into the hypo tank?

 

[Zoarder]

so say am setting up a new qt. I get the water to 1.10. how long would have have to run a drip line to acclimate the new fish going into the hypo tank?

No.... you start with regular saltwater level, then slowly add freshwater to lower the salinity. that take days...

 

[DGAR]

Yeah they are all eating like pigs twice a day and seaweed. He looks better, the others haven't got it yet. Except the other two petco fish. I do 15g water change a week.

Hopefully he doesn't die.

 

[DGAR]

I have my corals in the frag tank, never put them in for that reason. I had a feeling the petco fish would cause me some problems.

I saw that receipt on the forum if it starts to spread I'm going to try it.

 

[RileysReef]

I don't think ich hurts your corals


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[JasonG]

No inverts at all including snails and crabs

With clowns I drop the salinity quickly over a few hours (they are ok with it), it basically makes any parasites on the surface explode, but this will also shock your bio filter for a few days so you have to watch ammonia.

The biggest thing is maintaining ph, you must check it twice a day and make adjustments with sodium carbonate or soda ash. Marine ph buffers don't work at this salinity

Do not do water changes at low ph this will sky rocket ammonia toxicity, get your ph right first

Be sure to use a refractometer not a hydrometer

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[DGAR]

Well I just lost the powder tang. Just over night. Now the ich has spread. Stupid petco fish. I'm thinking of just hypo the whole tank.

 

[RileysReef]

Do it, don't wait.


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[pandimus]

Don't use copper in a tank you eventually plan on putting core and inverts in, I can leach into the Silicon and kill stuff later. I would start your Hypo now.

 

[swiftstang04]

How did you acclimate him? Im sry to hear, did you drop some of the petco water into your tank? Since all those tanks share the same water at petco, I have purchased fish from that petco and I aquired ich myself in the past from them, it was with a powder brown tang. Id recommend copper in a quarantine tank for all your fish if you can get one, im still new and learning myself as well.