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[Vern212]

Hay guys i have a new tank thats been runing for a month i have a nice blue tang and a bia color angle fish that i thing geting ick well i dont want them to die so any one,who thinjs thay can save them their yours just come get them my number is 1646 229 0348 and im in elizabeth nj thanks

 

[ecchybridLE]

Do water changes with salt mixture with ro/di.


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[xxxAngeloxxx]

Which tang u have the hippo blue tang or the atlantic blue tang n r both of them wit ich n one more thing how big is the tang also.


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[albano]

If those are your only fish...IMO, I'd leave them alone. Moving/netting will just be more stress, and the ick is in your tank, anyway.

Also the bi color angel was not a good choice, even for a more established tank...if it doesn't survive, don't replace it.

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

If those are your only fish...IMO, I'd leave them alone. Moving/netting will just be more stress, and the ick is in your tank, anyway.

Also the bi color angel was not a good choice, even for a more established tank...if it doesn't survive, don't replace it.

Alfie has a great point cant agru wit that


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[Vern212]

Which tang u have the hippo blue tang or the atlantic blue tang n r both of them wit ich n one more thing how big is the tang also.


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Powder blue

 

[Vern212]

What sould i do u said leave the fish how do i get the ick out

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

What sould i do u said leave the fish how do i get the ick out

I would catch him n keep him a separate tank QT for a while till hes a lil bit better


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[fishman1069]

Leave the fish in there and feed them a variety of food soaked in a garlic supplement. Do you have corals or inverts in the tank? If not, you can research hyposalinity and maybe do nthat in your DT

 

[Domboski]

If you want to bring them to me I'll treat them for you. You have to leave your tank empty (fishless) for 6 weeks and start over with fish slowly.

Hypo is a real PITA and there is still no guarantees. Best bet is to get the fish out, leave tank fishless, and treat the fish in a separate system. It makes no sense to leave the fish in a new system and always have ich in it

 

[ecchybridLE]

Now that u have introduced ich into your tank , u will always have it. How bad is the ich? Covering whole fish? Small spots? Just the way or is. Cycling a new tank with fish is fine, but u probably could have started with a cheap low end fish like damsel. U need to feed them some flake with garlic and do 25% water changes each week if not every 5 days or so and u should see it go away on it's own. I have ich in my tank , having constant alk and good water qwality should take care of the problem.


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[ecchybridLE]

Also, you should post if u run skimmer, what lighting, your nitrate, alk, calcium levels as well. All factors here.


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[xxxAngeloxxx]

If you want to bring them to me I'll treat them for you. You have to leave your tank empty (fishless) for 6 weeks and start over with fish slowly.

Hypo is a real PITA and there is still no guarantees. Best bet is to get the fish out, leave tank fishless, and treat the fish in a separate system. It makes no sense to leave the fish in a new system and always have ich in it

1+ for dom


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[Andyv2004]

There is a hyposalintyy treatment reference in atj's marine aquarium site. I actually had an ich problem when I first started my saltwater tank. I followed this reference to a tee and have been ich free for over 7 years. You don't have to live with ich and remember the parasite needs a host to survive or it will die so let the DT go fishless for 4-6 weeks. Hope this helps

 

[tentacles]

Cycling a new tank with fish is fine, but u probably could have started with a cheap low end fish like damsel.
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:sigh: This is a terrible idea. Don't do this.

 

[ryangrieder]

Now that u have introduced ich into your tank , u will always have it. How bad is the ich? Covering whole fish? Small spots? Just the way or is. Cycling a new tank with fish is fine, but u probably could have started with a cheap low end fish like damsel. U need to feed them some flake with garlic and do 25% water changes each week if not every 5 days or so and u should see it go away on it's own. I have ich in my tank , having constant alk and good water qwality should take care of the problem.


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not true. you will not ALWAYS have it. if you took all the hosts out of the tank and let the ick naturally die after the 48 days, there will be no ick. and cycling a new tank with fish in it is fine? well yeah its fine if you want to kill that fish. and the damsel thing is a horrible idea too because 2 reasons. damsels are extremely hardy fish, its not accurate to see if a damsel makes it or not, and the fact that if you put the damsels in your tank, then your stuck with that damsel.

and why flakes with garlic?

 

[Og Drogon]

not true. you will not ALWAYS have it. if you took all the hosts out of the tank and let the ick naturally die after the 48 days, there will be no ick. and cycling a new tank with fish in it is fine? well yeah its fine if you want to kill that fish. and the damsel thing is a horrible idea too because 2 reasons. damsels are extremely hardy fish, its not accurate to see if a damsel makes it or not, and the fact that if you put the damsels in your tank, then your stuck with that damsel.

and why flakes with garlic?

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Since you don't know much about ich I do suggest letting somebody else give it a shot or give it a shot for you at taking care of fish....... And the starting over with the cycle "fish-less"
Add a shrimp like the one from the food market that people eat or some other method. Good luck .

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

I'm w/ you Jenine! (Did I spell that right?) People who don't know what they are talking about should really not give advice. SMH

Cycling a tank w/ fish,always having ich and worrying about params in an ich outbreak? What do params have to do with ich? Ich will live in anything but hyposalinity. Parameters are irrelevant.

 

[skene]

If you need to you can always raise the temps in your tank to speed up the ich's life cycle. Thus putting an end to ich in your tank. The fish are probably stressed because of new tank cycle. Thus even bringing them to someone else or transporting the fish will just allow the fish to continue being stressed.
Leave the fish in the tank and raise the temp to 83* don't introduce anything new into the tank.
GL.

 

[Domboski]

If you need to you can always raise the temps in your tank to speed up the ich's life cycle. Thus putting an end to ich in your tank. The fish are probably stressed because of new tank cycle. Thus even bringing them to someone else or transporting the fish will just allow the fish to continue being stressed.
Leave the fish in the tank and raise the temp to 83* don't introduce anything new into the tank.
GL.

Are you saying if you keep your tank at 83 degrees ich will go away for good? If so, that's not true at all.

I'm also having a hard time understanding why moving fish out of a stressful environment and putting them in one much more healthy is more stressful on the fish?