I have a bad problem

[Danasfish]

I have a 55gal going. I have a puffer, trigger, snow flake eel. I just put a tang in about 5 or 6 days ago. He know appears to have ICH. none of the others have any signs about it. I would like to use hyposalinty but I am getting ready to go on vacation for 10 days. The person feeding while I am gone has no idea about taking care of fish. What do you suggest I do so I don't come home to dead fish.

 

[K9coral]

1. Bring him back to the fish store.

2. Dig the grave before you leave so you have less work when you get home.

Seriously, how long until you leave?

 

[mountainbiker619]

If your tang has Ick, it is just a matter of time before the puffer and possibly the trigger gets it. Is your tank a fish only? Does it have live rock? If it is a fish only with or without live rock, then you can treat with copper. If you do have live rock, the use of copper will kill the live rock. You could remove the fish into a seperate aquarium or substitute and treat them with copper away from the main tank if your setup is a reef. There are quite a few ways and different methods to treating ick, some work better than others on a case by case basis. You also need to ask yourself what caused the ick. Did you qt the tang for atleast a month before you entered it into your main tank? Is the trigger picking on the tang, which could have stressed the tang, thus causing ick. Do a search in these forums for "ick" and you will have numerous hits and very usfull information to assist you in your battle.

 

[Anonymous]

Overstocked, to put it simply. You're likely going way too fast to boot. Give serious consideration to DLART's suggestion, as there's no way you can hope to keep that tang in there with ALL those other fish for any length of time.

 

[K9coral]

Isn't 55 gallon kinda small for any tang? I've heard that a 75gal or better will normally sustain a tang or two. The only tang I ever tried was a yellow and he disappeared in my 46 gallon w/o a trace. He did have ich @ the time of his disappearance. When this happened I didnt even use R/O water (rookie mistake) so God only knows what really happened to him.

Seamaiden, will you sell me that picture of the stickman crashing and burning!!! Thats SO COOL!!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

It's small for each of the fish listed, even if each one had a tank that size to itself.

You shall recieve a pm shortly, my friend.

 

[Anonymous]

Hire someone who does tank maintanance to babysit your tank. You may not need to dig that grave.

SM & DLART are right. You have too many large fish in a tank that is to small to house any one of them.

 

[Danasfish]

I am leaving in 3 days. I do have live rock. My LPS say's that keeping these fish in my 55 gal. will be fine thay just will not get very large. But I am going to call about 125 gallon today. anyway back to the ich. what to do

 

[psiico]

Never take advice from someone with something to gain. The LFS says you can keep them so you will buy them, then when they die you buy more. More profit for them. Tangs need a lot of room to swim or they stress easily, they should be in 6 foot tanks from what I've read. Leaving fish in small tanks to stunt their growth doesn't work, either. It may stunt them a little, but they will still grow too large. And it's cruel.

I hope that didn't come off as rude, it wasn't meant to be, just some friendly advice, I have nothing to gain.

 

[K9coral]

If you are leaving in three days, you could set up a QT tank and treat the ich with copper or meds BUUTTT - as soon as you put the fish back in the original tank the ich will return IMO.

 

[Anonymous]

Danasfish, this problem is SO common that there are already volumes of information already written. Please, just search our library - http://www.reefs.org/library , Google, and http://www.wetwebmedia.com

 

[nanocat]

Your LFS treats their sick fish for ich, so let them take care of your tang while your gone. They owe you one if you're a good customer.

 

[hillbilly]

It's already been said, but every single one of those fish need an aquarium larger than 55 gal. Start digging those graves, or remove them please. It's such a waste to stress out fish to the point of death!

 

[Anonymous]

Danasfish, is the person thats going to be feeding your fish have the mental capacity to use an eye-dropper bottle? If so, two words (if I might so boldly solicit a certain product in this venerated forum [humbly submits]): Garlic Extreme. Made by Kent Marine; just have the guy/girl thats gonna feed your fish drop some of that stuff into the water if the tang isnt feeding, or use it with the regualr food, as per the normal instructions. That stuff is great: my Mandarin Gobys are more vigorously feeding after three drops! It is safe for reef and live rock tanks, it increases fish-appetites (from what I have observed), it will definitely help the odds of your other fish staying healthy and Ick-free, and its cheap!
Garlic Xtreme, or Garlic Extreme, forgot which. Great stuff