ick question?

keithbou30

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i went out of town for 3 days and someone turned the a/c off. two of my fish died and my blue hippo tang has some nice little white spots, can the tank get that hot with the a/c on it the house? does anyone use chillers on tanks and or recomend one?
 
1st thing is QT all fish doing Hypo salinity. Let the tank be fishless for 2 months and the fish Hypo for at least 3 weeks. We are going through the same thing and have been fishless for almost 2 months and in one week, all the fish return to the tank. Well The goby refused to come out of the tank but they rarely get Ich.

Mike
 
sorry to hear that. i don't use a chiller, but when my ac in my house went out, my tank went from 80 to about 85 degrees in a couple hours....and that was w/about 200 gallons of water. i'm sure it would be a lot quicker in a smaller tank.
 
Sorry to hear about your fish loss :( The heat output from pumps, lights, etc can definitely raise a tank's temperature. A quick temperature swing like that can also be the catalyst of an ich breakout.

Generally speaking if its in your tank, and you get everything under control it will lie dormant again and so long as fish are strong enough for it to fade its not a big deal. The high heat was most definitely a stressor in your situation though.

You can do a quarantine and hyposalinity treatments but I wouldn't recommend doing it like the browns. While a goby may not break out in ich, ich can survive unseen to the naked eye on the fish and its very possible their trouble of QT their fish may be for nought once all fish are reintroduced.

It can hitchhike in on everything so to be completely ich free you need to QT every single thing that goes into your tank once you know for sure its gone.

I find it much easier to live with it and keep stress out of my tank (no aggressors, no temp swings hopefully all equipment works well) etc and most fish will be fine.

While not a cure supplementing food with garlic soaks and vitamins will help bolster the immune system to help the fish fight off the parasite. Also, a cleaner shrimp or goby can often provide comfort if the fish allows the cleaner to pick off the parasite. Again, not cures, but more natural and less stressful things one can do.
 
We had an outbreak last year, the tank is well established with no additions.
I did a couple extra water changes, alternately soaked the food in Garlic Extreme, Zoe Marine, and Selcon.
I also did a couple of water polishing cycles with a diatomaceous earth filter. And got a cleaner Goby.
I can't give any one thing credit, but the outbreak was cleared up in about 3 weeks and hasn't been back.
 
Everyone will have their own opinion on here, I have heard from numerous people that no need to worry about the goby, we shall see, I will give you an update keithbou30.
 
I had an ich problem and left my goby in the tank thinking he won't get it so leave him alone. I cant be certain he was the source, but i left the tank empty besides him for 3 months, and got ich back the first week back in the tank. My opinion is that he was a carrier, but can't be sure. I took him out for the next round and all was good when i finally put all the fish back in the display.

Don't go spend money on Extreme garlic though. Go to the grocery store and by the spice world minced garlic. It's great and way cheaper. The fish will eat it up. Mix it up in thier normal food and let it soak good before you feed. You should always feed the garlic atleast once a week just to keep everyone healthy.
 
Also hypo is only good for ich but not Velvet disease which looks like ich. I did the hypo thing and the spots came back. Later after a copper treatment I got rid of what I found out was Velvet disease. I also used CopperSafe because it is a chelated copper treatment and IMO less stressful on the fish.
 
Thanks everyone for there knowlegde, i have a cleaner shrimp that will most likely help, and when i got home today i noticed that the spots are going away. he also is eating very well and if i see it get worse tommorrow i will look into what everyone has said thanks again.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12632497#post12632497 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by keithbou30
Thanks everyone for there knowlegde, i have a cleaner shrimp that will most likely help, and when i got home today i noticed that the spots are going away. he also is eating very well and if i see it get worse tommorrow i will look into what everyone has said thanks again.

That is the cycle, They will go away and then 3-4 days later, there will be twice as many as the 1st time. QT, QT, QT,......,QT
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12635908#post12635908 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by The_Browns
That is the cycle, They will go away and then 3-4 days later, there will be twice as many as the 1st time. QT, QT, QT,......,QT

Not necessarily.
 
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