Well, here are some lame pictures.

[Paranoiattack91]

This is turning up on my fish and they are losing their appetite. I don't have a hospital / QT tank. Someone should start a hospital tank business where I can house my fish!!

 

[jesuses]

Looks bad, real bad. Qt next time. I've learned my lesson finally after killing many fish. If anything survives your going to have to take it out and leave the tank fallow and Qt.

 

[Smite]

**** that sucks. Been there before

 

[Paranoiattack91]

Looks bad, real bad. Qt next time. I've learned my lesson finally after killing many fish. If anything survives your going to have to take it out and leave the tank fallow and Qt.

I don't have a place to qt. I'm not setting up a qt because I would need to run a chiller on it with how hot it gets up here. I have a chiller on my 120 and that is pricey enough. I guess I'll have to only buy qt'd fish from here on out.

 

[e92Monster]

Try garlic foods might help bring back appetite

 

[barbazoid]

[MENTION=3047]Adrock[/MENTION] dont you have a combo cocktail that combats ich ?

 

[reeferside]

[MENTION=3047]Adrock[/MENTION] dont you have a combo cocktail that combats ich ?

Think OP has tried it already

 

[Jetsetter57]

Use seachem prime and soak the pellets. That brought my fish back.

 

[LAreefguy]

[MENTION=3047]Adrock[/MENTION] dont you have a combo cocktail that combats ich ?

He most deff does! may be 2 late but its a mix of metro,focus, garlic x, selcon. prob more but thats what i can think of

 

[Paranoiattack91]

[MENTION=3047]Adrock[/MENTION] dont you have a combo cocktail that combats ich ?

I've been using that from the first day of symptoms. No luck

 

[kevin.st]

I also tried the cocktail and didnt help at all. It seriously sucks! You gotta buy from people on the forums/friends and acclimate perfectly, if you cant quarantine.

I feel your pain, dog. I just lost a bunch of awesome fish to ich.

 

[LAreefguy]

I also tried the cocktail and didnt help at all. It seriously sucks! You gotta buy from people on the forums/friends and acclimate perfectly, if you cant quarantine.

I feel your pain, dog. I just lost a bunch of awesome fish to ich.

I would say that it's mostly a preventative for all sorts of disease. Once Ich has already hit, it's hard to rebound from it.


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[barbazoid]

I am lucky to say I've only dealt with a minor ich issue and since my fish were fat they were able to overcome it

 

[kevin.st]

I am lucky to say I've only dealt with a minor ich issue and since my fish were fat they were able to overcome it

But doesn't that mean you have dormant ich in your tank forever?

 

[Paranoiattack91]

Well they didn't make it through the night. Sailfin, purple, and chevron tang all within 72 hours.
At least my carpet anemone makes them easy to get out of the tank without having to look for them.
Here is the chevron

Purple tang

So today I decided to go get a QT to hopefully avoid this happening again. 40 gallon.

 

[gonumber24]

Ich will be in your d.t. forever unless you remove all fish for a fallow period. The period ranges from 30 to 90 days. I would stick with the 90 days.

 

[Paranoiattack91]

Ich will be in your d.t. forever unless you remove all fish for a fallow period. The period ranges from 30 to 90 days. I would stick with the 90 days.

Yea. That's why I got a 40 gallon QT. So I can put my remaining fish in there

 

[jessegarcia28]

Uv?


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[wickedfish]

Best advice I can give anyone in the hobby is to be patient and wait for veterans to sell their livestock. Either too big for their tanks or they are getting out or who cares....! Either way you are getting good buddy's. I know stocking is rush time but trust that it pays. And if not you have to have a permanent qt tank off and on to monitor those sob's. Learn from Mike the volleyball shorts guy

 

[playaslk]

Glad to see you got a qt tank. Since you have time now, I would grab a sponge filter and seed it w some slush from the bottom of the tank to get bacteria going. That's all you need in a qt tank other than some PVC fittings for fish to hide in. Some people who use the tank transfer method dont even use the filters and just have PVC fittings and powerheads for flow.

Once you have the fish eating in the qt, you can start the tank transfer fairly easily.

Ps remember that since you dt is affected, you have to run it fallow for 72-90 days as mentioned so you have a lot of time to "observe" and treat fish in the qt. don't reintroduce fish to dt early because this would allow the ich that is still present in the dt to survive and one day strike again