MrTuskfish
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Nothing that is "reef safe" kills the ich mother-cyst. These can live for 9+ weeks before releasing the next generation of free-swimming parasites.
Need some advice on ich/velvet
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gianluca1970
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Everyone, just to give you an update on my situation, I had removed all of my fish from the main display tank and into a hospital tank. I let the main tank go fallow for 8 weeks. In the hospital tank I started with treating with copper only to kill my flame angel after one dose. I regretted doing that right away since the flame angel was in the best shape of all my fish at the time. I then did a bunch of water changes and treated the hospital tank with hyposalinity. All of my fish cleared up after about a week. My Pink Tail Trigger started struggling with some secondary infections though. First one of his eyes turned milk white. All I did was some more frequest water changes and that cleared up. However, he then started getting what looked like sores on a couple of places on his body. He fought that for about 2 weeks during which time he stopped eating and eventually died. My powder brown tang was doing fine and eating throughout the whole process but for some unknown reason was found dead one morning a couple of weeks before i was planning putting him back in the main tank. The night before he ate fine and had no visible spots and was never bothered by any other fish. That was a weird one. The only thing I can think of was that he had some sort of internal parasite or infection. My 4 remaining fish stayed in the hospital tank another 3 weeks and were finally placed back into the main tank a couple of weeks ago. Everything has been going fine.
To sum everything up, treating with hyposilinity may be a pain in the A$$ but it does work and is the less stressful way of treating ich as long as you have a good refractometer. I will never treat with copper again. I knew it was a bad idea but I got desperate to try and save the fish. This is one of those examples where less is more. I wish there was a magical remedy that was reef safe but until that comes out I think hyposalinity is the best way to go.
To sum everything up, treating with hyposilinity may be a pain in the A$$ but it does work and is the less stressful way of treating ich as long as you have a good refractometer. I will never treat with copper again. I knew it was a bad idea but I got desperate to try and save the fish. This is one of those examples where less is more. I wish there was a magical remedy that was reef safe but until that comes out I think hyposalinity is the best way to go.
I just read through this thread and alot of great info.
I have a fully cycled QT that I never used properly.I have about 10 or so small fish that passed through this tank with only 1-2 weeks of observation and no treatment.
Well my luck ran out and I've lost more fish in this observation tank than I'd like to admit.My worry now is main DT contaminated.
I've started Hypo treatment for the last remaining fish in this QT.
The fish that made it to main tank appear to be doing fine.
My question is:
If fish in DT are doing good,do I need to be concerned about an infestation in future?
This had been a hard lesson on patience.
I have a fully cycled QT that I never used properly.I have about 10 or so small fish that passed through this tank with only 1-2 weeks of observation and no treatment.
Well my luck ran out and I've lost more fish in this observation tank than I'd like to admit.My worry now is main DT contaminated.
I've started Hypo treatment for the last remaining fish in this QT.
The fish that made it to main tank appear to be doing fine.
My question is:
If fish in DT are doing good,do I need to be concerned about an infestation in future?
This had been a hard lesson on patience.
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