Help! Copperband Has Ich, What Do I Do?>

Is it in your display tank or in a QT tank? If it is in your display tank I would try and remove it ASAP (I know that sometimes that is not possible). If it is in a QT tank or you can remove it to a QT tank then I would do a hyposalinity treatment and probably raise the temp to 82 or so. There is really good information in the Fish Disease forum. If it is in your display tank and you have inverts and you can't get it out your choices are very limited. You can try garlic (some claim suscess) or you can try one of the "Reef Safe" cures (do a search) but these seem to have limited sucess. Or you can pray and just feed well and hope the fish can fight it off. Keep water quality good and if the fish is healthy otherwise they can recover. Just hope that it dosen't infect your other fish.
 
First of all how did he get it? Did the tank temp change, poor acclimation, or just stress from the trip home. I would first make sure the tank temp is stable. If your tank parameters are in check and your temp is stable then I would use a natural means of treatment, i.e. cleaner shrimp, neon goby, or cleaner wrasse. As long as he is eating he should pull through.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6766182#post6766182 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishykid9212
Ok do I use hypo or copper???
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Well i guess if your asking this then its not in a reef. I always use Seachem Cupramine for quarentine. It doesn't have as much of an inpact on the bio filter and is much easier to remove. DO NOT use a UV sterilizer if you use it. It cause the cupramine to elevate to toxic levels!!!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6766182#post6766182 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishykid9212
Ok do I use hypo or copper???
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If it is in a "Non-Reef" tank (no inverts) I would use hypo. I don't know how well CBB's tolerate either copper or hypo but I think hypo is safer. Copper is very hard to dose correctly and the test kits for it are not very accurate. High doses of copper can cause lasting damage to fish being treated. The difference between a dose that kills the Ich and one that damages the fish are not great in my understanding.
 
Get some neon gobies. Mine had ich when I put him in my reef.:)
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6766223#post6766223 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishykid9212
well he's in a reef but I can take him out if I have to I just dont want him to die on me
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I hate to see an animal in my charge die too. I hate even more for one to die and take out the rest of my tank. If it is in a display tank and you can get it out and you have a place to put it I would make that my first priority. Many have had luck with different cleaners. Neon gobies will help, but they can also succumb to ich. I would remove and treat as my first option.
 
If you have some spare time this works for me. Take the fish and do several fresh water dips during a 2 hour period. Dip it for a couple minutes, then move it back to the salt tank for like 15 minutes. I usually do around 5 in a 2 hour period. The fish will sit in my huge cichlid catching net (like an 8" aquarium net) in the fresh, then I remove the net with the fish in it, and place it in the salt tank. It may sound crazy, but I have killed both white and black ick this way and never lost a fish yet.
 
ok wait so, get a busket of fresh water, net the fish from the tank, put him in the bucket of fresh water for 2 minutes, then put him back into the tank for 15, then into the freshwater bucket for 2 minutes etc etc

do I do that of do I quaranteen
 
Freshwater dips can be effective but are also very stressful to fish. If you do go for it donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t use the regular green nets. The copperband will get stuck in it. Use a white or fine mesh net sometimes sold as brine shrimp nets.

I would still go for a natural method. You donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t have to move the fish or stress him out more.
 
Iââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢m for the natural way. :) I never treated for ich since being in the hobby. I buy fish small and sold a lot of show size fish back to the aquarium stores. I have a seven year old hippo tang in my tank now, along with other tangs that are form two to five years in the tank. They all had ich. I have four cleaner gobies and keep the fish well feed, with low stress and try to keep them uncrowded. My problem is I like a lot of fish! :D A copper band butterfly has a handicap they donââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t always except prepared food and are a delicate fish. Mine only ate aptasias luckily I had a lot of them and tube worms they lasted him a year and a half, once he ran out of food he starved. I wonââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t buy another one unless I see it eat frozen food. I hope he eats for you, Good Luck.
 
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Now when I say this thing is covered with ich IT IS COVERED, I have never seen this much before well Im starting fresh water dips lets hope for the best
 
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