HELP Hippotang with ich?!?!?!?!

fishykid9212

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He has had ich for a few days and it's getting worse, I tried garlic with no luck, should I pull him and use copper. I don't have a refractometer so I can't do hypo. What would you do????? I need help ASAP he's going down quick :(
 
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its he still eating? if he is then keep feeding him

i wouldnt try to pull him out unless you really need to because chasing him with a net through the rock work and everything will stress it out and might make things worse.

what do you have in the tank?
 
keep feeding him, one thing that has worked really well for me int he past has been cleaner shrimps, i dont' like to use any type of medication as this cuts the life span of the fish.
 
you have two options IMO.

1 pull and treat with copper.
2 pull and treat with hypo.

Anything else just treats the symptoms or even worse, does nothing and will not cure the ICH.

If you "baby" the fish in its current environment the best you can hope for is the fish will stop displaying symptoms, but in all likelyhood, will still have ICK and transmit to any new arrivals and/or flare up the enxt time they are stressed.

IMO do what is most humane and remove the fish to CURE THE PARASITE!!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6818007#post6818007 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Julio
keep feeding him, one thing that has worked really well for me int he past has been cleaner shrimps, i dont' like to use any type of medication as this cuts the life span of the fish.

Cleaner shrimps are not able to bore into the fish to remove the parasites. They will "clean" the fish sure, but not cure the parasite.
 
If you do not want to treat with copper, pull him and freshwater dip him. Also people do not noramlly use this but Maricin has worked great for me, by just putting small amounts in the tank, if you have alot of coral be very careful with it.
 
A refractometer cost less than another Hippo, I got one last week and it's worth every cent. (less than $40.)
 
Freshwater dip is also an ineffective way to kill ICH. The parasites deep in the fish are unaffected.

Seriously you have two real options to cure it. Not to be harsh but all other options are anecdotal at best and witch doctoring at worse.
 
Not to mention that you will have to leave your display FISHLESS to ensure all of the various life cycles of the parasite die off. So fresh water dip = stress your fish out to make it worse.
 
There is no cure for Ich, you will never get rid of it once it shows up in yoru tank, you can control it but you will never get rid of it.
 
Chasing a sick fish is only going to stress it more. If it's still eating well, you can leave it, watch it, and hope for the best. If you decide to remove it, you need to limit his avenues of escape and avoid chasing or injuring him. Since it's a Hippo Tang, means you've probably got a fairly large tank. You might try using a piece of clear plexiglass and see if you can coral him behind the partition on one end of the tank. You might even get someone to help you by using a second net. Of course he'll run like the dickens as soon as a net breaks the water. I had to remove a perc clown once, but they sleep like the dead and I simply got him at night after the lights went out. The horse is out of the barn now, but if you decide to pull him, hopefully you've got an adequate size QT. Match pH, SG, and temp in the QT with your DT. I had good success treating ich with hypo in a QT. It just needs to be done gradually Needless to say, don't dump meds in your display. Good luck.
 
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