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lpsluver

lpsluver

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I had a small Regal (yellow belly blue) tang in my RSM for a couples of weeks to help with algae. All it did the entire time was beat up its' reflection. It ate no algae. All the while looking to be healthy. I decided, against my better judgement, to place it in my 90, which was going to be its' eventual home anyway. The 90 has shown no signs of ich since it was set up and all fish have remained healthy and happy. Likewise, the RSM has shown no signs of ich.

(I should have prefaced this by saying that I have avoided tangs for years because they have given me nothing but grief with ich).

Parameters in both tanks are identical. Having said this, the stupid tang now has ich and it is slowly progressing. I'm soaking their food in garlic but have done nothing else yet.

I'd like to capture it and freshwater dip it but I'd have to tear the tank down to do it. Any other advise? Would a skunk cleaner shrimp do anything or is it too late to add it, especially to an established tank?

Please be gentle with the criticism because, believe me, you can't beat me up any more or worse than I am doing to myself right now.

I should have listened to my gut from the beginning and avoided the tang.:mad2:
 
I've had great luck with cleaner shrimp until I interceptored my tank. I know that there is ich in my tank, but it has never been a problem as far as fish showing signs of it, not since about a year or more ago when I first put the maroon clown into the 120, he showed some brief ich, but noone else has had it since then.

I think that as long as he is eating, especially eating healthy food soaked in garlic or selcon, that he should be okay and can ward off the ich by himself over time. A cleaner might help, but it's really hit or miss.

I do know people who have been in the hobby for almost 2 decades, and in their tank, their fish are covered with ich in the morning, but by mid day it's already gone, and the fish are all doing just fine.
 
Hey Bob I have a 100% solution to your ich problems.















Get rid of your tangs! LOL

Ich is just part of the hobby such as water is part of the ocean!
 
Ive had really good luck with my Yellow belly hippo. I got it almost a year ago(last Jan) and it has hardly ever had Ich. My Chevron on the other hand always has a few spots here and there but none of my other fish ever get it. I think its b/c they get feed the spectrum Thera A 4x a day from an Automatic Feeder so they all stay nice and fat but who knows. The best thing you can do is feed feed feed!!! IMO atleast!! But my Hippo is readhing the 3-4" mark....Manny your new tank going to be ready soon or shold I ask Rogger!! Its uderside is starting to turn a nice Yellow!!! LOL
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11284937#post11284937 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bret61081
Ive had really good luck with my Yellow belly hippo. I got it almost a year ago(last Jan) and it has hardly ever had Ich. My Chevron on the other hand always has a few spots here and there but none of my other fish ever get it. I think its b/c they get feed the spectrum Thera A 4x a day from an Automatic Feeder so they all stay nice and fat but who knows. The best thing you can do is feed feed feed!!! IMO atleast!! But my Hippo is readhing the 3-4" mark....Manny your new tank going to be ready soon or shold I ask Rogger!! Its uderside is starting to turn a nice Yellow!!! LOL
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Brett I have a hippo in my tank.
As far as my upgrade I'm 50/50 I go back and forth.
the tank was about to be cut last week but I put it on hold.

At this moment i don't have the balls to start knocking walls and going thru the motions.
I may wait or not I dunno.
 
I would get with Rogger.... ''Chef to the Fishes.''
I have seen his tangs get ich a few times and he hits them with this food mixture that he makes and they clear up fairly quickly.
 
QT your fish NOW with hypo or copper before it gets worse. Please keep us updated on your progress.
 
Thanks Dawg...I have Rogger's Magic food and feed it to this tank. The tang has not developed a taste for it yet. It likes mysis and nori and Cyclopeeze. I'm getting the impression that I need not panick yet. Just keep an eye on things and keep feeding. Should I increase the amounts/# of times per day of food and skim wet for the short term?

I know this sounds like a newbie type situation but I've only had ich in FO systems. Right now I'd be hitting the tank with Copper Safe and not worry about it. This has not happened to me in my reef tanks.
 
All you can do is feed alot of enriched food with garlic and selcon. Put a few peices of nori on a clip each day. Slowly raise the temp. in the tank to 82 degrees F. About that temp, ich drops off the fish. It maybe 83 or 84 F but I don't want to risk losing corals and other fish.

hth

-Matthew

Ich is everywhere in everysystem.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11287891#post11287891 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gasman059
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We did it at Reefs Edge to fish and I guess it speeds up the life cycle and by the next day the ich would be off the fish. It worked on many fish. I don't know the specifics but it worked 75%, everytime. ;) :D

-Matthew
 
Yeah, well if you got the Yellow belly at Big Al's then I feel your pain. I just got one this past weekend from them and it looked super healthy. By Tues it had ich and spread it to my white cheek that was just beginning to eat. Yesterday my white cheek died and the Hippo still looks pretty rough. All my other fish are fine.
I hate stores that medicate their tanks and then the fish go south. Err!
 
It's not the store's fault. It's the fault of the person putting the un QT'd fish into the display tank. Any LFS can have fish that have diseases.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11291341#post11291341 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Freed
It's not the store's fault. It's the fault of the person putting the un QT'd fish into the display tank. Any LFS can have fish that have diseases.
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In my case QT was unnecessary. It was moved from one display tank to another. QT would have been a wasted step.
 
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