ICH help!

[Yuckmouth]

My problem.
I have Ich on some of my fish and it seems to be spreading.
I don't have any tanks to set up a hospital tank.

I have live rock and a sand bed. What can I do?

I have no coral, a cleaner shrimp and 2 hermits and a large snail of some sort.

The Dog face, blue tang, foxface and now my banner fish all have spots.

My other fish are all slotless. (2 clowns, lawnmower, watchman)



What can I do to not destroy my live rock and help my fish? I'm up for anything. Have read alot of methods but need your advice!

 

[triton3d]

Check your ALk,PH,Mag.ect.... i had the same problem for 2 months and when i checked my parameters the were all wrong.. please check this first. remember ICK= Stress!!!!!!

 

[Yuckmouth]

Check your ALk,PH,Mag.ect.... i had the same problem for 2 months and when i checked my parameters the were all wrong.. please check this first. remember ICK= Stress!!!!!!

I know I'm prob going at this all wrong having to deal with this reactively but I don't have a test kit for those perameters.

Having gone from fresh to salt i still have the test kit from fresh...will that work?

I will need to find something to test Alk and Mag. The kit I have (freshwater) can test PH.

This is a new tank setup with established live rock with tons of purple on it.
I have a 90g with a 35g sump with refugium, protien skimmer and UV sterilizer.

My fuge doesn't have anything but sand though (for now).

Have read that using no light for a few days may help with stress...the effected fish are all new to the tank. So that explains the stress.

The dogface has been there for a few weeks, it cleared up but now it's back.

Going to let them lay low with no light and hope they get better. They are all eating great and are just doing the normal rubbing against rock because of it. The puffer has been effected the longest but is the best eater.

 

[Yuckmouth]

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=19768

Anyone use this? Seems like my only option at the moment.

 

[coralmojo]

Slow down...ich is no fun, but you don't want to over react...

Stress triggers ich...

1) Catch fish and treat in hospital tank with copper
2) I would spend my money getting appropriate test kits/monitors before I spent anymore money on new fish...
3) Decreasing light
4) Increasing tank temperature
5) Dosing garlic extract(?)
6) Feed well
7) UV sterilizer
8) Leave tank fishless for 8 weeks

I wouldn't spend my money on other tank treatments...snake oils...IMHO

DrMerle

 

[krowleey]

Check your ALk,PH,Mag.ect.... i had the same problem for 2 months and when i checked my parameters the were all wrong.. please check this first. remember ICK= Stress!!!!!!

ich = ich!! ich is introduced into your aquarium. once you treat fish and leave the tank fallow for 8 weeks, stress or no stress = no ich. remove the fish or LR and inverst and perform hyposalinity is what i would do. do you have a refractometer?

 

[triton3d]

ich = ich!! ich is introduced into your aquarium. once you treat fish and leave the tank fallow for 8 weeks, stress or no stress = no ich. remove the fish or LR and inverst and perform hyposalinity is what i would do. do you have a refractometer?

Well, i dont beleive that!! you can leave your tank fallow and your fish in a QT for 1 year if you want, you put your fish back in the DT and everythings OK, you then have a temp. problem or anything that can cause stress and BOOM theres the ICK again!! were did it come from?? it happend to a friend of mine! like i said before, i had that problem for 2 months, and never took a fish out to treat in a QT, i fixed my parameter problem and good bye ick!!! my fish are doing great!!!



Mike

 

[zsqure]

You need to set up a hospital tank, perform hyposalinity, leave your display tank fallow for at least 6 weeks if not 8. The ich bottled solutions are snake oil, sometimes they work and sometimes not. A u/v sterilizer will not kill ich in your DT, it only prevents what goes through it from reproducing. All fish will have it eventually. Get that hospital tank up and running immediately. It can be a 10 dollar tote from china mart, doesn't need to be a tank. no live sand no live rock, some pvc tubing for hiding. There should be a disease section in this forum check it out.