ok ***? hypo did not work

[ThrowinRoost89]

so my PBT had ich. i put him and my other 2 fish in QT and did hypo for 5.5weeks. all was good, i put them back in my tank 4 days ago and i started noticing faint white dots on him. they would stay on for a day, and i wasnt shure if it was ich again. well this morning there were just a couple faint spots, and now there is prolly 6 or so. and these look more like ich...

what is the best way to MAKE shure ICH IS GONE?



and yes i used a refractometer, DT was fishless during hypo.

 

[ThrowinRoost89]

hmm...

hmm...

I was thinking of what I could of done wrong...

then I thought maybe while I was feeding the corals,

I was feeding the neme silversides, is it possible for the ick to survive off of a dead fish?

 

[ThrowinRoost89]

copper?


gordons kick ich? i read someone used it in the reef tank and it worked.


5gal of bleach?




Note:
i also have a copper band butterfly and a niger trigger in QT

 

[Kevin1000]

Any possibility that you did not keep the SG at 1.009 for the entire treatment period or that you had "cross contamination" issues between the QT and the ST?

Its also possible that you may have a saline resistant version of ich - it happens on occasion.

If you comfortable that you kept the hypo QT at the correct SG then I would "redo" using copper which unlike hypo works every time so long as you keep the proper level of copper concentration (make sure you have a decent test kit).

 

[ThrowinRoost89]

the only time the SG changed is from evap, i topped off every morning.


but if the ich was never killed off in QT, wouldnt he have still had it during hypo?





is any disease that looks like ich?

 

[oct2274]

5.5 weeks isn't enough sometimes to kill the ich cycle in the display tank. were there any other fish left in the display tank at all? If so then QT'ing did nothing but help them get healthy and then you put them back in a infected tank. Typically when ich is in a display tank you have to let it sit for a minimum of 6 weeks with absolutely no fish in it to kill off the ich. If you left any fish in there at all then your efforts were unfortunately wasted. Sometimes it does take even more then 6 weeks without fish. Some ich is also resistant to hypo. When you hypo'd did you use a properly calibrated refractometer to ensure the salinity was no higher then 1.010? There are alot of variables here and if just one isn't followed reinfection happens.

 

[ThrowinRoost89]

total time was 6.5 weeks, i took a week off for the ich that was on them to die off and to make shure. then i started the countdown.


the refractometer is brand new(and i double checked it with the solution), i used a hydrometer for the first week untill my refrac came in, but the hyd was .01 off. so that may have jeperdized the first week. i tested the tank with the evap, and it was 1.010. then when i topped it off it was 1.009

and yes, i took all 4 fish out. the only fish that went into the tank during hypo were silversides for my anemone and crabs.



i have a small amount of CC in the QT to buffer PH, was that a bad idea? i asked in my original post about this and no-one replied/said not to.



temp in the QT is 81
temp in DT is 82


i also purchased a niger trigger, he was in QT awaiting hypo. is it safe to do hypo on him?