Ich question

[Reef lover24]

I have a blue hippo tang that hides in one of my rocks.. He came out last night covered with white spots, I think it was parts of the rock but my dad was telling me otherwise. I am going to examine him today when the lights are on. if it is ich, how do I go about treating it. Since now it is in the tank, and I have live corals and etc obviously so I cannot just dose the tank. Help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Reef lover24]

Please help!!! URGENT

 

[lnevo]

You can either feed a lot and hope he makes it through and your other fish as well...

Or you can remove him and all your other fish and start a hospital tank using one of the three proven methods

a) hyposalinity
b) copper
c) transfer method

Either one will be a lot of work and if you want it to be meaningful it involves leaving your DT fishless for 12 weeks. Good luck however you go. Here's some information that will be handy

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/reefs-beginners/38671-ich-information.html

 

[Reef lover24]

Don't have a hospital tank to put them in.. That's the problem. Brought this kick-ich stuff have to do a 15 day cycle. Hopefully it works. Have some high end clowns in the tank I cant lose them. No other fish seem to be effected at this point. Thanks.

 

[Reef lover24]

Seems to be only my blue hippo tang right now.. Going to try this treatment and see what happens. I cant have it spread I have some high end clowns I cant afford to lose right now. Fingers crossed.

 

[thanktank]

i have the same thing and keep loosing my fish all the time?

 

[Reef lover24]

First outbreak I have ever experienced so I don't know. My hippo is really active still though and still eating like a pig so I am hoping for the best. We will see what happens

 

[Pimentinha]

i have used kick ich and unfortunately it just doesn't work.
How big is your tank? At this point, ALL of your fish will have ich.
IME clownfish can pull thru ich fairly easily. Feed them well, meaning, vitamins, selco etc and hope for the best.

hope you succeed.

 

[oh207]

Good luck with the treatment. I've tried all the Reef safe ich treatment and none worked.
You will need to treat all fishes in a hospital tank and leave the main tank fishless for 12 weeks in order to kill out the ich or at least 99% of it.

A few months after I setup my tank I started seeing signs of ich on a blue hippo I had recently added. Over the next 4 months it would appear and dissappear for about a week once a month. During that time I dose the tank with kick ich, Rid-ich, and no-ich. I had about 10 bottles of the rid ich and it was always discoloring the tank and smelled bad. And I couldnt run the skimmer either, so that made things worse. For a while I thought I was beating it, but I noticed that with every reappearance each month it came back stronger than before. I now know that is because of the normal life cycle of the ich parasite. Fishes that didn't show signs before were now showing signs of ich. Finally last November when it got cold the outbreak hit my tank hard and I lost all my fishes except for my clowns.
Since then I started to QT everything as a precaution.

 

[Reef lover24]

I honestly don't know what to do at this point. Going to try the treatment and see what happens. I know for a fact my other fish don't have it. Honestly not that worried about them more worried about my clowns then anything but they are always more hardy so we will see how it goes. In the process of looking for a tank now for QT. And ill just throw my high end clowns in there and leave the rest.

 

[Reef lover24]

and my tank is a 57g

 

[Nandez13]

I know for a fact my other fish don't have it.

If there's ich in the tank, then all of your fish have been exposed to it. Just because a fish is not showing white spots, swimming funny or has a lack of appetite doesn't mean they don't have ich. That's what makes ich so devastating, you can't just treat the fish you think have ich and expect the rest to be the fine. All fish just respond to it in a different way.

Good luck with whatever route you choose.

 

[Reef lover24]

I understand that man but at this point theres not much I can do. I can't catch them with what I have in the tank since it is a reef tank.. So I have to try what I can try. Reviews are different on different things so I guess ill wait and see. if everything gets wiped out it gets wiped out nothing I can do. Just hope not I love my clowns.

 

[Reef lover24]

Looking for a QT tank now to get setup and going.. hopefully these guys pull through where I can get them into a QT once cycled and treat them with copper.

 

[Pimentinha]

As Nandez mentioned... We know for a fact that ALL your fish has ich. Wether they show it or not...

You may not have time to let the tank cycle. The very first time I had it I decided to do the same thing and it took just too long to cycle. Read about tank transfer. It might be the best option.

Whatever you decide to do best of luck!!!

We all know it sucks to loose fish...

 

[B.BASH]

i have beat ich a couple of times ime the best method is to keep the fish healthy I soak nori sheets with vitachem several times a week a varied diet with good quality food is a must and feed several different types of food nobody likes to eat the same thing every day a cleaner wrasse and or shrimp will also help unfortunately its in your system keep The fish as healthy as you can and ride it out is what i would do it probably will take 6-8 weeks to clear up the good news is the fish that survive will build a certain tolerance also keep up with your water quality thus keEping the fish as stress free as possible

 

[LongIslandPetVet]

Don't mean to hijack but have a question regarding ich and adding new corals to the system. I understand that you set up a QT tank for fish 4-6 weeks but what about with corals? How do you add them to a system without potentially introducing ich to the tank?

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Don't mean to hijack but have a question regarding ich and adding new corals to the system. I understand that you set up a QT tank for fish 4-6 weeks but what about with corals? How do you add them to a system without potentially introducing ich to the tank?

Consider 3 day transfer method, bare bottom to minimize surface for encrusting.

 

[Mattl22]

If it's still just the hippo keep feeding it really well feed seaweed and hope it pulls through!
Good luck

I'm learning how to qt myself but I've had ick a few times and fish that otherwise healthy can fight it off

 

[oseymour]

Had a friend with Ick and it just kept re-appearing even after going fishless for 10 to 12 weeks. He had to break down the tank and start over.