Ich in reef tank, help!!

[Hens4Fish]

Help everyone, I just got a shipment of new corals in last night, and acclimated them into my 150 reef tank properly. The problem is that this morning my powder blue, and copperbanded BF both have ich spotes on them. ALl my levels are correct, and I have a cleaner shrimp in the tank. Will he clean it off them? Are there any chemicals that I can add that will not hurt the inverts and coral? Please anyone with advice I need it. Thank you.

 

[thor32766]

if there a only a few spots on them, the shrimp may be able to get rid of them. I had a copperband when i got him that had some spots on him and after a few good cleanings and it disappeared. Keep us updated.

 

[Hens4Fish]

Update, I worked all day, and when I got home the cleaner shrimp was cleaning the powder blue and the copperbanded was completely clean. Good news for me. Thanks for the reply

 

[Sk8r]

Feed food soaked in garlic juice. It occasionally helps. Sounds like a light 'stress' case. Feed well, and keep your alkalinity immaculate.

 

[Kennyboy1984]

Cleaner shrimp getting rid of ich??? That is seriously a big mistake to believe that. Quarantine all of your fish and use hyposalinity or a copper based treatment. Those are the most effective ways to erradicate it. Also do not forget to leave your main display tank empty of fish for up to a month or longer. No fish = no hosts for ich = no ich in the tank.

 

[kraze3]

Keep an eye on both those fish, ich is only visible during one stage of its life cycle. WHen its visible it is right before it drops off into the substrate to reproduce. Ich can also be in the gills of the fish. It is possible the cleaner shrimp cleaned them and your all set. It is also possible that the ich is reproducing so keep an eye out for any more spots on any of your fish.

Just to clarify the main display should be left fishless for 6 - 8 weeks for it to be ich free.

 

[joe18]

i am of the opinion that if it is not to bad, then it should be able to be handled without chemicals.
feed very well withy good foods. garlic soaked or soaked in any other suplement sort of liquid.


keep water quality as good as im sure it is now, and try not to do anything thatll scare them, try to to stick youu hand in the tank also.

this method has always worked for me, and i am yet to loss an ich fish with what i just describbed.

try it out.


joe

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

May not be ich...I too added corals awhile back and it came with some type of parasite....White tiny, tiny dots...not salt like, but flat..Mostly on my Raccoon..My Clown was effected for a short while, looked as though his slime coat was peeling, but that heeled up within a week ....Whatever it was, did not effect the fish enough to warrant treatment ...
If it is ich, however, your cleaner shrimp will not cure it and they will need to be removed and treated and the main left fallow

Always get a positive ID before treating

 

[Hens4Fish]

Thanks for the reply, I think bttrflygrl might be right because they already look better. THanks for the resplonses.

 

[Waxxiemann]

the fish probably always had ich but when you added the corals it stressed them out and the spots appeared.

Thats my guess.