ahhh...ick??!?!?
- Thread starter gsusfreak
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waynesworld
Premium Member
do you have a cleaner shrimp? I just got 5 of them for my tanks. of course I got a few fish for them to clean.
pitbullpooch
Member
do a search for ick on here and do some reading. theres alot of info about it on here and to much for just one of us to answer. cleaner shrimp isnt an easy way out of it so dont just depend on buying one and its cured. theres alot that goes into ick then just a simple cure. if only it was as easy as a cleaner shrimp lol. not to sound rude but alot of times you get more out of searching then expecting a good answer from posting a question .its always better to read alot of different sugestions then just a few. thats why reefcentral is so usefull. theres alot of good info here but theres some bad to so you cant expect to always get the right answer. we here on mtrc dont know it all 
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pitbullpooch
Member
gsusfreak heres some good reading, paul b has alot of knowledge and i trust in and have had alot of sucess from his info.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1024582
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1024582
gsusfreak
New member
i dont know what happened...but they are completely gone from the clowns......however, my yellow clown goby still has them ....and looks like he's dying....ive had him for 2 weeks, and never once did i see the little guy eat....usually he just chills at the bottom....now he's just chillin at the top....and not too happy lookin either....i already have 1 peppermint shrimp in there to kill the aptasia
p.s. thanks pitbull for the link....ive search other forums for this answer already...practically all last night ....no ZzzZzZz's at all......but they are much smaller forums.....unlike reefcentral.....im never able to search here...because i always get an error
p.s. thanks pitbull for the link....ive search other forums for this answer already...practically all last night ....no ZzzZzZz's at all......but they are much smaller forums.....unlike reefcentral.....im never able to search here...because i always get an error
turboex901
New member
gsus, i sent you a pm that may help you. best of luck!<~~steve
pitbullpooch
Member
thats what i have to do to search to. I just had a bad outbreak of ick myself and learned more about it then i ever knew. my clown made it through the ick...well so far atleast but i had a royal gramma and a damsel die from it before i could do anything. It happened so fast and i was surprised my clown made it. He looked bad for a few days but he pulled through...hopefully. I never had this much trouble with it untill now in any of my nanos so i learned my lesson and im gonna quarintine for now on. good luck with it.
NeveSSL
Got tubes?
gsusfreak
New member
well, from what ive read....i QT is just a tank to put the fish in and monitor it for 3-4 weeks......just saltwater and lights....and pvc pipes so the fish can hide....bare bottom....powerhead for flow and i heater.....if im missing something else..anyone feel free to add
p.s. right now i have some liverock in it...cus i had nowhere else to put the rock
p.s. right now i have some liverock in it...cus i had nowhere else to put the rock
DMBillies
Active member
It's fine to put rock in a qt (in fact, some people qt rock to make sure no pests hitch hiked in). The only thing is, if your fish in qt does have something, you'll want to remove the rock before you treat the fish and depending on what your fish has you probably wouldn't want to move the rock to a display tank... so you can get into a bad position that way. In a perfect world, we would all have 10 qt tanks that we could qt everything seperately in isolated systems. Obviously, most people can't do that.
crumbletop
New member
QT is a good idea.
Here is a link about quarantine tanks:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-10/sp/feature/index.php
Here are a couple of good ones on ich:
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/marineich.html
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php
Good one on hyposalinity treatment:
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/hyposalinity.html
For nitrates, I have a biowheel, and many people use a sponge that they keep in the sump of the main display, and then when you fire up the QT tank, you toss in the sponge/biowheel. If you do copper treatment, you'll kill the bacteria and will need to keep up by doing water changes. I use a 12 gallon tank for my QT, so it isn't too hard to keep up if I need to.
I've got mine running right now, so if you come to the meeting next Saturday you can see how I have mine set up. It's pretty simple.
Here is a link about quarantine tanks:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-10/sp/feature/index.php
Here are a couple of good ones on ich:
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/marineich.html
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php
Good one on hyposalinity treatment:
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/hyposalinity.html
For nitrates, I have a biowheel, and many people use a sponge that they keep in the sump of the main display, and then when you fire up the QT tank, you toss in the sponge/biowheel. If you do copper treatment, you'll kill the bacteria and will need to keep up by doing water changes. I use a 12 gallon tank for my QT, so it isn't too hard to keep up if I need to.
I've got mine running right now, so if you come to the meeting next Saturday you can see how I have mine set up. It's pretty simple.
pitbullpooch
Member
gsusfreak, how are your fish doing? my clown was the only one thats made it so far. I lost a damsel and a royal gramma. I noticed on your tank thread that you have 2 clowns. did they make it so far? mine only had a few spots on it all together and the others were covered in it. Im just surprised out of all the nano's ive had ive never had a problem like this. I guess i could have had ick before in them but it just never got bad enough to notice it. lesson learned though. Im just glad it wasnt down the road when i had a full stock.
gsusfreak
New member
pitbull...all the fish are doing good....i lost a green chromis early on, but that was due to the ick,....my clowns decided to go after him for some reason ....i had that little sucker for only 2 days, before he was shredded to pieces......i picked up the yellow clown goby to replace him since he was a bottom dweller......and for the last 2 weeks, i never saw him eat....i think thats the reason why he has the most ick right now.......but he's still alive....he doesnt look as good as the clowns though
pitbullpooch
Member
the main reason i think i lost the gramma was because he wouldnt eat either and was just coevered in ick. I havnt seen him come out of the rock work so i take it he didnt make it.
