Finally got a Volitans!

[StephLionfish]

Man, I really want this other Vol. at the store....but the two inch difference between the two...don't want to push it :I
When will I be able to tell that he's getting better? Just when the spots go away? Cause I had a fish once with ich, and the spots went away but it died the next day...

 

[Barfly]

Man, I really want this other Vol. at the store....but the two inch difference between the two...don't want to push it :I
When will I be able to tell that he's getting better? Just when the spots go away? Cause I had a fish once with ich, and the spots went away but it died the next day...

Hello Steph! I think you already know this from chat, but in case you don't, even if the lionfish recovers and show no signs of ich, the disease is still present in the tank and will most likely reappear at a later time. The ONLY way to rid your system of ich is to place the fish in QT and treat if necessary. Also, you must run the tank fallow (without fish) for about 8 weeks. This is the only way to break the life cycle of ich and get rid of it once and for all.

BTW, I don't think bleach would be a good solution. :wave::uhoh3:

HTH

 

[namxas]

To be honest, I think crypto is kind of always lurking, 8 weeks or not. Our volitans has had a couple of bouts with it (we used extended hypo treatments of at least 10 weeks), which should be PLENTY of time to be rid of the stuff once and for all, but the fish does get the odd cyst on occasion.

In fact, over the years, I've had healthy, unstressed fish get the odd cyst or two, kick it to the curb and are fine thereafter. Where did it come from if not the tank itself?

 

[Barfly]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php

 

[Barfly]

To be honest, I think crypto is kind of always lurking, 8 weeks or not. Our volitans has had a couple of bouts with it (we used extended hypo treatments of at least 10 weeks), which should be PLENTY of time to be rid of the stuff once and for all, but the fish does get the odd cyst on occasion.

In fact, over the years, I've had healthy, unstressed fish get the odd cyst or two, kick it to the curb and are fine thereafter. Where did it come from if not the tank itself?

Were the fish removed to a qt for the treatment? As I stated, the tank must remain fallow for a minimum of 8 weeks.Treating the fish in the DT is not going to work, IMHO.

 

[namxas]

Dood...I had a 65 gal QT/hypo set up...

 

[Barfly]

Dood...I had a 65 gal QT/hypo set up...

Well then one of two things happened then...
1) you did not properly treat
or
2) it was not ich to begin with

Unless of course you are telling me that the life cycle of ich is different in your tank than it is anywhere else on earth.

 

[seahorsedreams]

Well then one of two things happened then...
1) you did not properly treat
or
2) it was not ich to begin with

Unless of course you are telling me that the life cycle of ich is different in your tank than it is anywhere else on earth.

There's a lot of people experiencing resistant Ich, for whatever the reason. It's hard to misdiagnose when you get skin scrapping, as we did, and have it identified professionally. There's zero change of the hypo not being done properly.... zero. It's really a no brainer to keep a tank at 1.008.

I think he left the treatment Ich-free, but the display tank, even after the extended fallow period, still had it. There are scientific studies out there in journals that speak of cysts that were viable a lot longer than the standard 8 weeks. It's something I can't prove in my particular case, but it's a hypothesis.