Ich ich ich !!!!!!!!

[Danny91]

Hi

I noticed a couple of white spots on my royal gramma a couple of days ago and today it has got really bad and it's also on my clown goby. I've been treating the tank with polyp lab medic for a couple of days as I don't have a QT. The fish are still eating but their not as active and seen to hide away rubbing in the sand and up against rocks. Should I do water changes whilst treating the tank and also will ich harm any of my corals?

 

[nereefpat]

There isn't anything you can add to your tank to cure ich that won't harm corals.

You need to catch the fish and put them through:
Tank transfer method
Hyposalinity
or copper

You don't need a cycled qt. A royal gramma and clown goby could do tank transfer method in buckets, for example.

 

[Danny91]

Thanks for the reply. I'll have a look on them methods now. Once I've chosen a method and done the treatment will ich not still be in the display tank and then just attach to the fish once I put them back in?

 

[Pdisner]

Hi



I noticed a couple of white spots on my royal gramma a couple of days ago and today it has got really bad and it's also on my clown goby. I've been treating the tank with polyp lab medic for a couple of days as I don't have a QT. The fish are still eating but their not as active and seen to hide away rubbing in the sand and up against rocks. Should I do water changes whilst treating the tank and also will ich harm any of my corals?

Maybe try an actual antibiotic? I have use this, I don't know if that's work here the fish but it's worth a try. You can do a dip as well as put in the food. It's good to have on hand because it treats other parasites, not only Ich. There are some good articles on google scholar. I breed peppermint shrimp copepods clowns and other popular marine fish. Did this come up with a new fish? Anyhow here is a pic of the medicine.

Here's the instructions and Indications

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[ca1ore]

Thanks for the reply. I'll have a look on them methods now. Once I've chosen a method and done the treatment will ich not still be in the display tank and then just attach to the fish once I put them back in?

Indeed it will. In order to clear the tank of the ich, it will need to remain fishless for 72 days. Ich will not harm your corals, though unfortunately there are no effective in reef medications, despite some claims to the contrary.

 

[MrNurse]

Maybe try an actual antibiotic? I have use this, I don't know if that's work here the fish but it's worth a try. You can do a dip as well as put in the food. It's good to have on hand because it treats other parasites, not only Ich. There are some good articles on google scholar. I breed peppermint shrimp copepods clowns and other popular marine fish. Did this come up with a new fish? Anyhow here is a pic of the medicine.

Here's the instructions and Indications

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antibiotics will have zero effect on ich.

 

[Danny91]

Thanks again. I only have 4 fish so I'll catch them tomorrow and start a treatment. Will my snails, hermits and cleaner shrimp need to be take out too or does ich not live in them?

 

[nereefpat]

Thanks again. I only have 4 fish so I'll catch them tomorrow and start a treatment. Will my snails, hermits and cleaner shrimp need to be take out too or does ich not live in them?

Leave the inverts in the tank. They can harbor the ich cysts, but ich can't use them as a host.

But the tank will have to remain fallow (fishless) for 72 days, as ca1ore stated.

Edit: don't dose metro to a tank with inverts.

 

[Danny91]

Thanks alot slot for the advice I appreciate it

 

[Danny91]

Could you recommend a good copper treatment to go with

 

[nereefpat]

Thanks alot slot for the advice I appreciate it

Who you calling a slot!?

Could you recommend a good copper treatment to go with

Sorry. Copper isn't my bag. I would recommend tank transfer. Someone else will have to help you if you want to use copper.

 

[Danny91]

It's my phone I didn't mean to put slot. What's tank transfer?

 

[Sk8r]

THere's another forum called Fish Disease: this contains the information on procedures you need. You'll need another small tank, maybe 2 small tanks, etc, and a bottle of Prime, plus a refractometer and a lot of salt. It's not hard to do, but futzy: two cheap 10 gallon tanks and no rock or sand in the bare tanks. You also must not have fish in the display tank for 72 days. Inverts are ok to be in it.

 

[Bent]

I recommend Chloroquine phosphate for treating ich these days.

I do not recommend the use of copper or hyposalinity anymore due to the difficulty involved.

CP or TTM.

 

[rjjr1963]

Will a UV sterilizer help to remove ich? I know it won't cure the fish but will it kill the ones that are free floating?

 

[Uncle99]

To my knowledge, nothing eradicates Ick except not having a host.
Fallow 72 days.....it's all that ever works.

Fish treat separate, hypo works really good if your good at keeping salinity on point at 1.009 and TTM is excellent and curing fish with the least stress...