So when is it time to worry about Ich?

[PowermanKW]

I moved my tank a couple of months ago from the guy I bought it from. No cycle. Waters params good. decided to put a Blue Hippo in, it now has Ich.

90g reef with two tangs, coral beauty, clown, 6-line, bleny, and a couple of chromis. At first, the coral beauty looked like it was getting nipped. It's fins were ragged. Bought a cleaner shrimp to help.

Added a hippo, and it seemed healthy. Saw a couple of spots, none, then a lot more. Fed live food once, but stopped that. Now the beauty looks like it has Ich on it's fins.

So when do I worry??? Do I just wait and see, try some reef safe medicine, or go nuclear and try to net him and put in QT? I don't have a QT tank right now.

 

[troyman]

my blue hippo had ick really bad fed him garlic extreme from kent put it in frozen food let it soak awhile gave him multiple feedings a day it worked it really worked

 

[shelburn61]

A few spots aren't deadly, but if the fish are showing increasing stress and numbers of spots I think you will have to treat to avoid mortality.

I recently got lazy with a powder blue in QT and now have a few spots showing up every few days on the PBT, a yellow tang, and bluethroat trigger. The fish seem to be tolerating it pretty well so I'm hoping I can beat it with extra food, garlic, and selcon rather than removing them all...

 

[PowermanKW]

So still don't know if it time to worry.

Thanks for the replies.

So it had say 7-8 little specs. Went away. Next day, it had say 10 or so big specs. Looked later, half were gone, but had dark spots left. Yesterday, one little spec. Today, 10 or so big specs

Doesn't look stressed, eating well. Just worried. the other fish are fine. A Scopas had a couple of specs, but they are gone for now.

Got a bottle of Sea Chem garlic, but it just says it is "garlic scented"???

Don't know what to do. Wait it out??? or am I watching it die???