ICH- can it transfer to all my other fish?

[misterd]

My purple tang has ich. I introduced a cleaner shrimp and been using garlic gaurd. The tang has been getting cleaned by the shrimp mutliple times and is eating alot nori soaked in garlic. It got ich the second day i introduced him to my system.

Right now i have a yelow headed goby and a spotted grouper, also the purple tang. I was wondering if the tang could transfer its ich to the other fish. The other fish are perfectly fine, and eating well. My tank is about 1 month old and is a 90g FOWLR. Should i quarantine the tang even tho its getting better, so that the other fish dont get sick too?

-Thanks

 

[Jerry W]

Chances are your other fish are already infected. The life cycle of ich is such that it reproduces in your tank and all fish are at risk during the parasites free floating stage. You would do well to quarantine and treat all the fish. The garlic and cleaner shrimp are not going to cure the problem. You will notice the white spots go away. This is simply one stage of the life cycle and it will normally come back even worse.

 

[andrewsmart]

jerry is spot on q/t all fish leave the main tank empty for 6 weeks and use hypo to treat the fish.

do a search for hypo.

 

[Freed]

QT before adding anything that is WET to the tank. And this means anything that is WET to the tank.

 

[edwing206]

Freed- Even corals and inverts?
I thought only fish could carry ich.

 

[misterd]

If the spots are gone, that means the eggs are in the sand right? So if i take the tang out while it still has spots on it then my tank wont have any ick eggs in its substrae, and i can just use a uv sterilizer to kill the free floating ich?

hopefully my logic makes sense

By the way, how big of a qt tank do i need for a tang and what would be the ideal qt tank you would use? (filter, sand LR? lights , no lights)


Thanks for the advice tho.

 

[Freed]

Anything that is WET can carry ich in the water. The ich can't feed off of anything other than fish but the ich can still be transferred in the water no matter how small of an amount of water there is. QT all fish, inverts, corals, sand, live rock, etc...

misterd, no that is incorrect. Ich can be in other stages in other areas of your tank even though you see some spots on one of your fish. There could be ich in forms in the water column, in the substrate, in the gills of the fish, etc...

 

[misterd]

Can i hyposalinity the entire tank? ITs 90g with Fish, LR , LS and a few hermits and snails and blue linkia starfish. If the starfish probably wont make it through, i can put it in my nano tank. If i hyposalinity, will this kill all ich, even babies/ eggs?

ThankS

 

[andrewsmart]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9806275#post9806275 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by misterd
Can i hyposalinity the entire tank? ITs 90g with Fish, LR , LS and a few hermits and snails and blue linkia starfish. If the starfish probably wont make it through, i can put it in my nano tank. If i hyposalinity, will this kill all ich, even babies/ eggs?

ThankS

hypo will kill all your ich but you cant do it in your main tank the fish would be the only ones to survive.

i do not know how it would affect your live rock filtration but you would severly affect you tanks flora and fauna.

 

[andrewsmart]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9804008#post9804008 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by misterd
If the spots are gone, that means the eggs are in the sand right? So if i take the tang out while it still has spots on it then my tank wont have any ick eggs in its substrae, and i can just use a uv sterilizer to kill the free floating ich?

hopefully my logic makes sense

By the way, how big of a qt tank do i need for a tang and what would be the ideal qt tank you would use? (filter, sand LR? lights , no lights)


Thanks for the advice tho.

you want a simple bare botton q/t tank no l/r sand etc a manual filter will be required their is a good suggestion in the stickies for a diy one.

or buy one.