Ich discovered over night. Survival question.

[PatmanM3]

Hello everyone,

I have a fully cycled 40 gallon quarantine that has housed fish for 2 weeks already. I originally planned no meds and just the 9 week recommended observation. However today I discovered that my blue hippo tang has white spots throughout his body. There were spots and some stringy white spots. He ate alot today and so far the other fish have not shown any visible signs.

Info on QT tank:
40 gallon 36"x17"x18"
2 HOB filters
1 sponge filter with air pump
4 PVC piping for fish hiding
Bare bottom no LR

Fish:
Banggai cardinal small 2 inch
Desjardini tang small 3 inch
Yellow tang fat and large 4 inch
Blue hippo tang XL 8 inch
Potters angel small 1.5 inch
Blue-faced wrasse about 5 inch

Before people slam me with how small the tank is for these sized fish, they would be going into an 8ft 300 gallon if they survive treatments.

The past 2 weeks before the ich discovery, all fish even my potters were eating anything I put in the tank (selcon-soaked spirulina, vita chem, nls pellets, and nori). My blue hippo did not appear stressed either.

Anyhow, I have chloroquinine available and will start treatment tomorrow morning when I get home from work.

My question would be will my smaller fish (potters and banggai) survive chloroquinine?

I'm sad that I was able to get my potters nice and happy and active and now ich is present.

Anyhow wish me luck and I will provide updates. Thanks guys for any input and advice.

 

[Mrscribbled]

I recently started using crypto pro and have not witnessed any ill effect on any fish including dwarf angles.

 

[MrTuskfish]

IMO, the tank will do fine as a QT. Its just a temporary home. I've used chloroquinine phosphate a few times now ( a flame angel was included) and, so far, all is great. Chloroquinine phosphate is a close relative of Crypto Pro (Quinine sulfate) and I think either are good choices. CP is said to be easier on the fish, but I doubt there is enough valid info around to know for sure. I haven't considered using anything anything but copper or TT for years; but these two malaria drugs are for real. They are not the reef-safe cure- alls that everyone looks for, though. FWIW I've never seen anything rid a tank of algae faster than CP.

 

[Dmorty217]

Chloroquine phosphate is very effective In treating ich. The angels should be fine in the treatment. You could always start out slow and keep a close eye on the angels. I will tell you as I'm sure you have read time and time again that angels and copper don't mix very well. You can make the chloroquine into a food dose too, to get a broad spectrum treatment, and public aquariums are using it as a food dosing treatment, with good success in reef tanks

 

[Dmorty217]

Obviously there is more to the food dosing then what I mentioned above

 

[Rea17]

Can you post some pictures? I dread hearing about those "stringy spots."

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I have used cp only once,and had great results.I now have 2 quarter size yellow tangs and a small niger trigger in qt dosed at 40mg/g.

 

[PatmanM3]

Thank you everyone for the feedback and for sharing your guys experiences !

I started off woth a 25% water change and started the dosing 40mg/gallon for a total of 1.6gm treatment. So far the fish are swimming normally except for my potters. He seems spooked and swimming frantically up and down. I'm hoping with the tank covered he calms down.

Anyhow ill provide som updates every now and again. Thanks again!

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pic but u can kinda see the white spots towards his tail area. The stringy spots kinda look like peeling.

Wish me luck!