"ICH FREE TANK" Quest Begins

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your killin me,

I'm on day 7 at normal SG, everytime I go by the QT I can almost hear my fish begging,, "we're ready, we want to go home, please, bubble bubble"

Sure is hard to be patient.

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I have a gorgeous coral beauty in my 20g QT that has been at 1.009 for about 5 days now. I didn't see any ich on the fish when I got it a couple weeks ago, but of course wasn't going to risk it. Well, guess what? A white spot appeared on one of his fins a couple days ago. So, he's gonna stay in there for a while now. What an insidious life form !!!
 
Well, while we're sitting around waiting for our parasites to die, check this out. I lifted these slides from a Japanese website. I think the first slide on the upper left are tomites that have attached to something - rock, sand, etc. In the other slides we're looking at various stages of tomonts reproducing.

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Guitarfish, do you hypo your new fish no matter what? BTW, my wife is putting the CD in the mail tomorrow.
Jimmy, hang in there, your virtually there. I have two tanks, one clear, pristine, no Ich, and the other infected and depressing to look at (thankfully it's just a QT doing what it's meant to do). You'll have those fish a long time. :-) I'm actually going to use you as my inspiration to stick to my own story. Theres a group of Bartlets anthias, a blenny and a ghost eel waiting for me at the LFS, and even though I think I have this group thats in the QT cleaned up, I'm going to hold myself to the same standard. It's a good thing I'm friends with the guy's at the store, they said no problem on holding my fish. They even put them all in one tank for me, so I'm counting this as part of the QT time, though they will still have to do 4 weeks once I get them.
 
great drawings...lol

odd how this lifecycle works..my angel has been loaded for 7 straight days.. and now nothing visible on him tonight.. i got to try for a pic.
 
Triggerfish said:
cool watching them in the surge action on the inner reef slopes in Hawaii..awesome.
Funny you should mention that, we saw these on the reef in Kauai earlier this summer. That's when I decided to get one for our tank.

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Triggerfish said:
how long you going to observe after you raise the sg back?
thinking 2 weeks should do it.
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I'll probably keep him in the QT for observation through thanksgiving at least. I've already had this fish 2 months, another few days won't hurt. :D
 
best pics i could get tonight..fish doesn't stay still for very long.

basically what the fish looks like with no visible spots.
i'll take some when he should be loaded up within few days.
any specs you may see are scratches on glass.


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here cleaner goby pokin around.

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sweet pics of the achilles...i just don't think i would have the swimming room for that fish...
 
My summary is fairly straight forward. I bought a Kole Tang, 4 firefish gobies and a Coral Beauty on 10-18 and put them in my QT. The next day the tang, angel and 1 goby showed Ich spots. I immediately used Cupramine. On the 23rd (5 days later) they were clear except for one spot on the tang that I really don't think was Ich (it might have been a small lesion). That spot cleared up on the 12th of November, so just to be safe, that's my start of the 6 week countdown. I check the Cupramine levels every two days, but they are steady now (it took about three weeks of daily checking to get the levels to stay steady). No more spots have been seen since the 12th (if that was Ich), and the tang and gobies are healthy. The angel died around the fourth day.
 
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guitarfish said:
I had heard of the varients of crypto that are resisitent to hypo, but last time I checked, it was never seen in captivity (yet).


involved in another ich thread involving aquarist difficulties with hypo and Terry chimed in with this comment:
TerryB said:

There is a couple of aberrant strains in Taiwan that survive in a salinity as low as 5 and 10ppt. Hyposalinity works extremely well in most instances, but you may be dealing with an unusual strain."

sort of sounds like he is making reference that it may be closer to home than you think...
 
I worked hard on eradicating Ich the first time I encountered it. I'm not a biologist, but I am convinced I had a strain that was Immune to hypo. Theres a chance that I helped it develop that way, as my initial treatments were not perfect, so I might have created a stronger strain. I don't know how long it takes for a strain to adapt, so I can't be conclusive, but to me, I believe it's more common in captivity than we think. It would take more experienced people than me to factually state it though.
 
guyguerra said:
I might have created a stronger strain.

LOL...wow..we're gathering so much info on this thread that some of us are at the point of being able to create new ich c.irritan strains.. although not sure if we need additional ones,,... you have a name for it yet...how bout the
c. guyguerra irritan strain :D
 
Creating our own strain of c. irritans? Let me think about that...
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Yes, yes, IT COULD WORK !!!
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Alive, ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE !!!!!
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Sorry guys, just kinda lost it there for a minute. :lol:
 
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