Ick

[macawmagic]

So I've bought a yellow tang about 2 weeks ago. since then I've lost my yellow tang, yellow kole eye tang, and a clown.
my engineer goby and pink spotted goby both have ick and the other clowns look like they do too. I've been feeding with garlic but that isn't helping.

Whats the next step? I'm ready to set up a quarantine tank!

PLEASE HELP!!!!!

 

[chinoxl3]

What are your water parameters like? You have to find why your fish are stressed. How are your corals doing?

 

[macawmagic]

corals are stressed also. Somethings been wrong in my tank for a while now, but i've had the water test, tested the water, and nothing is ever wrong! Its really starting to stress me out cuz everything goes good for a while and then drops down hill. I did a 10 gallon water change sunday night. When I get out of work tonight I think im going to reef life to talk to pat about it. hopefully set up a quarantine tank before anything else dies. i'm guessin i'll be doing a bigggg water change soon. probably like 50%

 

[gasman059]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10126405#post10126405 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by macawmagic
corals are stressed also. Somethings been wrong in my tank for a while now, but i've had the water test, tested the water, and nothing is ever wrong! Its really starting to stress me out cuz everything goes good for a while and then drops down hill. I did a 10 gallon water change sunday night. When I get out of work tonight I think im going to reef life to talk to pat about it. hopefully set up a quarantine tank before anything else dies. i'm guessin i'll be doing a bigggg water change soon. probably like 50%

I believe this tank is farily a new setup-correct?
Anyways the ich scenario is very typical for a newly setup aquarium w/o proper QT. Prhaps u should take a step back and re-think the whole process-now is the time.

Patience is a vurtue!
Good luck.

 

[chinoxl3]

Another thing you might want to check is if you have any electric currents in the tank. Sometimes you might not even know that something electrical went bad. Just something you might want to check when you troubleshoot.

 

[ant276]

Whoops it appears I've missed a post (I agree with Chinoxl3).

I used to have issues like that on an old tank of mine with a bad power head in it. If you took a water sample to your LFS to have it tested do you know what they tested for? Mine only does tests for PH/Nitrate/Nitrite and a few others; they don’t test for copper etc.

Just a thought.

Ant

 

[macawmagic]

how would I got about checkin if there was electrical current going through the water? and yea the tanks like a month old...maybe 5 weeks. everything was doing good except for my mushrooms untill about a week ago. now theres very little thats happy and my fish are dieing. after work i'm going to reeflife to get the necessary stuff to set up a QT tank, and then I'll probably be doing about 50 gallons worth of water change on my tank in the next couple days. then if everything settles back down i'll put the fish back in. I hope I don't loose any of my corals as I just bought some really exotic zoos and yuma's. just my luck!!!

 

[chinoxl3]

Do a search for stray voltage on RC. A lot of good info about stray voltages and people experiences.

 

[ReefWreak]

you should be able to check by using a multimeter (use at highest setting and then slowly come down to smaller numbers until you can see the voltage). You put the positive lead into the tank, and the negative into the ground of a power strip. At least I think that would be okay (maybe someone would correct me). That is how I would test. Or you could just stick your whole system on a GFI circuit and see if it pops the breaker. I know my tank does, but I've never tested for stray voltage and my fish don't seem bothered, so for now ::shrug::. If that is your problem, a $15 grounding probe is your best bet. It would also be good to replce the offending electical device. carefully.

 

[chinoxl3]

This might be a useful thread:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1129667&highlight=stray+voltage

 

[gasman059]

I think maturity and notr stray currents is the problem here.
Look for horses not zebras!

 

[compulou]

I'm with Gasman on this one. I just think you did too much way too fast. I didn't introduce any actual fish into my tank until it was about 3 months old. And they were Chromis at that, nothing as large as a tang. I recommend you remove all your fish and have someone hold them or QT them and take things "a lot" slower.

 

[macawmagic]

wait...just so u guys understand. my tank was setup for a year in orlando. It wasn't just a straight setup a month ago. I brought all the live rock down covered in water. made sure the tank wasn't cycling. acclimated everything. dipped all the corals in TMPCC and RO/DI. It wasn't like I just set the tank up and threw everything in. The only fish i've added since then was the yellow tang. I've learned my lesson of QT everything, before it goes in the big tank, but I want to try and fix this before I loose everything!