ich?

[doryarlin955]

Raisng the temp won't necessarily fight the ich. It will accelerate it's life cycle. That is it will move from the fish to cysts back to the water more quickly. So if your tank is medicated, it will be exposed more quickly.

That's what I meant, sorry I'm a bit frazzled since I'm having problem with almost all my tanks right now, I just did 4 hours of straight fish work. :mixed:

I've got an airline in teh tank too

I also added some copepods from my cultures, maybe he'll like them enough to try em.

 

[tmz]

Hang in there. It likely won't eat for a while at least untill wahtever ails it is alleviated,

 

[doryarlin955]

Well this morning he was loaded with the parasites, so I immediately began a formalin bath at 200 ppm. it's got about ten minutes left and I can put him back into QT, which I've sanitized. The salinity has been at 1.009 (thanks Josh!) and temp around 80. The dip seems to making a small amount of improvement for him, atleast now I can tell it's breathing. He aslo has oriented himself almost the right way, before he was swimming randomly in circles. Overall it's jsut plain bad and I doubt he'll make it to tomorrow.'

 

[johno4]

Wow, he looks bad. Poor little guy, I hope he pulls through.

 

[tmz]

Thanks for the update. He's in bad shape but wouldn't it be great if you could save him. I'd give him rest for a day and redip if the parasites were still visable or you can try some prazi pro. Good Luck

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

bump

bump

perhaps some useful advice in here

 

[EllieSuz]

Does anybody else wonder if the fish lived?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I'd be surprised if it lived. Look at those last pix.

 

[E_rock]

Its was helpful my tang doesn't look that bad. Except the links on hypo don't work. I don't suppose you have a good link on hyposalinity treatment do you?

 

[NirvanaFan]

check out the stickies on the top of this forum.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=87

 

[BuffaloReef]

If you have a fish covered in parasites would it be a good idea to put a cleaner shrimp (lysmata sp.) with it for a little while before treating it? Most treatments would kill the shrimp too so it might be difficult to do at the same time. It seems like the shrimp might be able to reduce the number of parasites to a more treatable number.

 

[tmz]

Over teh last few years my view on hypo salinity have changed. It works sometimes but often not. Crrpto caryon can survive brackish water and mutate generationaly.; they jhave anew generation every 2 weeks.
I found it interesting to read though at least my views on fromalin baths vs freshwater dips are conssitent. But now I just wouldn't mess with a fresh water dip unless I had no formalin around and a desparate fish.EVen then I don't think it helps much.

Since 2008, I tried hypo, moved on to copper and finally to tank transfer as a prefered method.