Clown fish has Ich

[TTSupra]

What are the best possible methods of clearing ich? This is my first encounter with ich. Salinity is at 0.023, water temp is at 79, but I just upped it a few degree's on the heater a moment ago being I heard that adjusting the temperature higher or lower can sometimes kill off the ich host. Not too sure how high it will get, I'm waiting for the temperature to balance at the moment.

I just did an 18 gallon water change a few hours ago.

55 gallon tank in total.

Anyone have any good links or methods?

Only other fish in the tank is a wrasse, which doesn't care at all about the clown fish.

Ammonia was almost 0.5 earlier, give or take (Crappy test kits), but the water change should of helped a lot with that tonight.

Tank is going on 3 months old.

Currently the fish is hugging a corner of my tank, half way up the side, just balancing itself there..not really moving much, but not struggling to fight death at the bottom. I noticed the ich yesterday when another clown fish was very near death (died 2 hours after I noticed). I noticed it after waking up, so I'm not too sure how long he had been fighting it.

The fish are 3-4 days old from a LFS, which had them for over a week. I noticed no signs of ich when purchasing it.

 

[GSMguy]

take all fish out of display and set up a QT tank treat it with copper do not add fish back to the display for 1 month no less.

 

[SVXH6]

treating with copper is not always the best. i would remove fish to QT and do a hypo salinity treatment, maybe even a FW dip. keep the tank fishless for a month to be sure ich life cycle is complete.

 

[Freed]

Copper must be monitored more closely than hypo. A fresh water dip can usually do more harm than good. Hypo is all you need in a QT. Much easier to control than copper as well.

 

[TTSupra]

I didnt have access to a good copper solution being the town I live in is lacking mostly anything but a wal-mart. Last night I went up to Wal-Mart and setup a 10 gallon with a mixture of RO water and a salt mix and brought the salinity down to around .018, got the water temp to 78, and put in this chemical called Quick Cure.

Sadly by the time I had it up and going he didnt seem to be doing to well, I moved him over and he swam around for a bit, then just settled at a spot on the bottom and kept breathing really fast. A more knowledgable person was here last night, and said he had never seen a fish recover when their stomach looks slightly pinched in.

Hopefully he'll last. I havent been home yet to check on him since this morning.

 

[Freed]

hypo is 1.009ppm salinity

 

[TTSupra]

I was going to drop it down that low, but my roomie is one who I look to for a lot of my advice, and he manages some LFS...and told me that moving him from .023 to .009 would just throw more stress than needed on him when he's already sick as hell.

Clown fish was dead when I came home this afternoon. Depressing to lose 2 fish like that right off the bat when trying to establish a good tank. The wrasse seems to be fine, very active with no dots or signs of sickness.