Well our blue tang has gotten ich, it's been about 1.5 weeks or so since we first saw the white spots. We just moved all the fish and corals to a new 46 gallon tank. So seems like the stress from the move, etc.. brought it on. No other fish show any signs at all of ich, just our blue tang. She has been eating normal, but does show fast breathing at times, and here and there rubbing on the sand and rocks. We don't have a qt tank setup to be able to do a hypo salinity treatment in, and scared that setting one up from scratch etc.. would be more stressful for her that's if we could catch her which would be stressful in itself. So far all we've done has been soaking food in garlic every day, and did a 10gallon water change last Sunday. Any suggestions of anything else we can do to try and treat her?
Our blue tang has ich any help?
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thelostrican
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Small tank... But feed it a lot...use greens seaweed...pellets from spectrum<----best fish food ever....be sure nothing is pestering him...got pics? More info...
MrTuskfish
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Ditto on thelostrican's "small tank" comment. IMO, tangs can be "stressed' by tanks that are too small very easily. The fish can't have ich unless it was introduced. Any fish with a bad infestation of ich is in a lot more "stress" (IMO, the most over-used term in the hobby) from the ich than he would be from the move to a QT. Without a QT, about all you can do in reef tank is feed well, use vitamins, keep pristine water, and hope. There is a good chance all your fish will see this parasite sooner or later. Maybe the fish will fight it off, maybe not. Any fish, in the early stages of ich, can certainly handle the 'stress" of being moved to a QT. I don't mean to sound cold; but you asked for suggestions after you've ruled the only real cures out. (Copper, hypo, possibly quinine sulfate).
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Not rulling naything out, but figured that transfering the fish again to a new tank that would just be setup from scratch would be worse then just leaving her in the display tank. I'd do copper but have corals etc... so can't. If doing a qt tank is the best I can do that, just have to pull all the rock/corals out to be able to catch her.
MrTuskfish
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I guess that's the choice. Sometimes fish fight ich off on their own; but its still in the tank and will re-surface sooner or later. Maybe you can get lucky and keep it under control until a truly reef same ich cure comes along. I'd sure QT everything from now on; as bad as ich can be, there are parasites that are much worse.
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