Ich after a water change. Why !!!!

Thanks for the input. Have been keeping salt since the days of bleach your coral. Before sand beds. Over the years my tanks seemed to always have ick. I really think taking the sand bed partially out messed up things. Still learning after 28 years. Are there truly ick free tanks. ???or is that reserved for another thread
 
Chicago said:
yes.. a fish was introduced about two weeks ago.. so yes I may have messed up.. argg.. my own fault.. ... some fish look like specs of salt .. one has white like hairs.. but my bet is ick...

going to reduce salinity to 1.020 slowly from 1.025. also introducing glaric food and some food soaked in selcon..

will keep you all advised. really dont see getting 15 plus fish into a holding tank..
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The info sure would have saved folks a lot of trouble if we would have known about this up front. I assume the fish was not quarantined, so all the talk about WCs, sandbeds, etc., was a total waste of time. The ich almost certainly came from the new fish.
 
^^^ +1. The ich came in with the new un-quarantined/treated fish. No doubt about it. Depending on how large your fish are, you may need a big 2-300g QT to properly treat all of the fish. It sounds like a PITA but is the only way to eradicate ich from your system.

Good luck with the treatment. Once this is over, QT and prophylactic treatment all new fish will prevent this big headache from happening again.
 
im bad.. sorry .. thought i mentioned the fish.. just pulled my inverts.. some snails and nice mushrooms.. the mushrooms survived the coral crash of two years ago. doing hypo on main tank.. i read here need to go to 1.0016 local pet store thought i would see some possible rellief at 1.0019. will hypo kill the couple of aptaisia i have in the sump.. i may have some mushrooms to give away if anyone is in need and in chicago area.. there are some on my DT rock that i could not get off. will see if they release as the salinity goes down..

watching the ph as i do this..
 
Chicago said:
Thanks for the info. Will pods , aptasia,snails and hermits all die?
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Probably. Just a heads up; hypo is fairly simple, but has no room for error. Just a brief period with SG above 1.009 can let free swimming ich to find a host and start the whole cycle all over. This can easily happen when water routinely evaporates; so make sure water level is maintained,an ATO really helps. A perfectly calibrated hydrometer is essential too----good luck. Oh yeah,my regular sermon: from now on, use a QT with everything and avoid this giant PITA again. I had to tear apart a large tank many years ago because of ich and have used a QT on everything since. I keep lots of fish and haven't seen ich, or any other protozoan parasite, in any of my DTs since.
 
yep. my fault.. 30 years of experiance in the hobby. fighting ick and other issues. coral crashes and more.. and just goes to show.. I got lazy. I have droped the salinity form 1.024 to 1.020 over the past 48 hours.. dopping more today. just hope it was soon enough.. problable will lose a couple of fish.. most are eating recent addition is not and will most likely not. can I drop to 1.008 over a 24 hour period assuming watching ph. and yes i use ATO and have a refractomer to check the salinity.

Thanks
 
You can drop the salinity very fast as long as you take care in buffing up the pH. Going from 1.024 to 1.008 over 48 hours is fine.
 
Aren't you going to have quite a bit of die off from your rocks and sand when you drop to hypo in the display?

I would be afraid of the bacteria dying as well leaving you with very little biological filtration. to help process all other inverts living in your rocks that die.
 
Ok so finally after days got the salinity down to 1.011. Hope I'm in time. Lost some fish. I now see some slofing of like outer skin on angel. Like after a sunburn. Kinda my as like. Thoughts. How long does it take for some sort of recovery. If possible. Thanks
 
Chicago said:
Ok so finally after days got the salinity down to 1.011. Hope I'm in time. Lost some fish. I now see some slofing of like outer skin on angel. Like after a sunburn. Kinda my as like. Thoughts. How long does it take for some sort of recovery. If possible. Thanks
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Just another possibility: the death rate and skin problem makes it sound like brooklynella or velvet. Can't tell without a pic. As this has been going on for 10 days, you could easily be past the point of being able to cure any fish. If it is brook or velvet, hypo won't help at all.
 
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