Ick...again...just ranting

allendehl

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Yeah, back in Aug last year I got Ich in my DT, I suspect it came with 2 Wrasses I bough from LiveAquaria, since they were the only fish added in a long time. Why they made it straight to the DT is another story.
Lost my 2 tangs to it before I was able to setup my HT and start treatment. Then lost one angel right at the end of treatment...who knows why.
Royal PITA the whole process, from breaking down the tank to remove the fish to the whole continuous WC to the HT, to loosing the fish.

Treatment in HT was done with Cupramine at 0.5mg/L for 30 days.

Well...at the end of the whole fallow process, around 75 days or so, I decided to only keep my two clowns and took the others to the LFS, all clean and shiny, to kind of start over.

Since then, and just like I always do (yes, except for the 2 wrasses) I did TTM on every fish I brought....just to find white sand-like spots covering my Coral B and Flame angels a few days ago. Sh!t!!!! Somethimg most have gone wrong with my treatment, maybe I dropped the Cu concentration for a few mins during a WC or something.

Well, here I am again in fallow. So far no loses, just a nice frustration and an opportunity to redo my rock-scaping in a fish-less tank.

:hmm3:
 
Its possible you have velvet, which TTM doesn't treat. Ich is actually becoming less common nowadays, and velvet more common.
 
Yeah, that was my thought too. It would have already killed everything by now, I think.

Sometimes there are survivors left in the tank which never show symptoms of velvet. These are usually fish protected by a thick mucous coat: clownfish, mandarins, sometimes wrasses...
 
Velvet IME starts killing within 2-3 days and everything that isn't immune will more than likely be dead or almost dead within a week. 6 weeks fallow will take care of velvet, while 72+ days will take care of ich. This is a example of why I proactively treat everything in QT whether I see symptoms or not
 
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