tang with ich

[DiSkuStiNg]

I got a purple tang and at the store it looked perfectly healthy. Then i got him in the tank and he looked like he had ich. He has small white spots all over him. Hes eating fine and I dont have any other expensive fish in there. Just a firefish, madrine, and clown. Are all these suceptable to the ich? He obviously got it at the fish store will it fade away over time now that hes in a larger less stressful tank? Are there any treatments i can do without quarantining him in a different tank. I have some soft corals so if there are treatments that wont harm them please inform me. I would really like to save him for two reasons.
1. store doesnt take returns :-\
2. hes a bad *** fish and i like him.

Is this a bad case? Is death soon?

 

[DiSkuStiNg]

took him out of the tank and put him in a 10 gallon , dont know if the ich would have got in the water in an hour. really ****ed right now, what is hydrosaltinity or whatever and how do you do it.

 

[flameangel88]

Looks like we started our 75g around the same time. My fishes came down with ich and removing them was not an option with 130lbs of LR so I decided to find something reef-safe to cure ich. I used Chem-Marin Stop Parasite and dosed 2x a day for five days back on 8/21 and ended on 8/26 and happy to say all the fishes are doing well and shroom, polyp rocks and all inverts are alive. But made sure you also soak their food in Selcon and Vitachem so they can get strong and fight the parasite. I've been soaking nori and frozen food everyday since 8/21 and they are all very fat now but I may have too much nutrient in the tank as red slime algae is building up on the rocks and sand. Marine Depot has it and you can get the 16oz bottle to treat your 75g but would recommend you buy the larger size for maintanence use after you finish treating for ich.

Good luck.

 

[jeffbrig]

IMO, there is no such thing as a reef-safe medication, and I would never attempt to treat anything inside my display tank. Proven cures for ich are copper and hyposalinity.

With copper, it's critical to have a good copper test that accurate measures the level of copper in the water. Too little is ineffective, too much is toxic. Cupramine w/Seachem copper test is generally a well recommended combination, but recently there have been some issues with there test kits.

Hyposalinity is a little easier, assuming you have a refractometer. Over a 3 day period, gradually lower sg to 1.009 and keep the fish there for a minimum of 4 weeks (better to do 4 weeks after the last spot disappears). Then, gradually raise them back to normal salinity. I do this with all my fish as an ich preventative before they go in the display tank.

You also need to read up and educate yourself about the disease...here's a good place to start:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php