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ich yuck...

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by mbeaty, Jan 26, 2010.

  1. mbeaty

    mbeaty Inactive User

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    So my boyfriend was trying to be nice today and surprised me with a new little goby of some sort. He had it in the tank before I even knew he had gotten it. The thing has ich. I don't have a hospital tank, I'm really as a loss what I even need to do to treat it in a saltwater tank. I'm highly annoyed because he bought it at Petco cause it was cheap and their fish always seem to have ich. What's the best way to deal with this before it spreads to my other fish? Thanks!
     
  2. bobsfish

    bobsfish Experienced Reefkeeper

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    get it out of there...quick. take it back. anything.


     
  3. saltwaternewbee

    saltwaternewbee Inactive User

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    You may try and feed the tank food with garlic in it to keep up the health of the other fish.
     
  4. Guest

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    There is a reef safe ick treatment I have used in the past. It seemed to work really well, I had to buy it online however. It was on bigalsonline or fosters and smith, I can't remember.
     
  5. jtesdall

    jtesdall Expert Reefkeeper

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    You said this is a salt water tank but you said nothing about reef. So do you have corals and other inverts? If not get Coppersafe but make sure all fish are copper safe. I would not trust any reef safe Ich treatments as too many club members have had extremely bad luck with so called reef safe treatments. However there have been people who had luck with such treatments like N3Gen but why risk it.
    If you have corals the best treatment is to remove all fish to a hospital tank and treat with either copper or hypo-salinity depending on the if the fish are sopper safe. Then run the tank fallow (without fish) for 6-9 weeks. The length differes based on opinion and the length of the Ich Parasites lifcycle. This is the only way to truly rid the tank of the parasite forever in a reef environment.
     
  6. jtesdall

    jtesdall Expert Reefkeeper

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    The other option I reccomend and have used  is what saltwaternewbee mention. I am very convinced that garlic is very effective at combating the ich parasite. If your fish are healthy their immune system can usually fight off the parasite on its own and the Garlic helps this situation. But if the parasite appears to be taking over get copper or hypo-salinity involved quickly.
    Do your research, there are a lot of articles on this topic.
     
  7. Guest

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    If you do use any treatments make sure to follow directions. Some, if not most require you remove any charcoal from your filters (if you use) otherwise the medication will be filtered out if you leave charcoal in.
     
  8. ninjazx777 Experienced Reefkeeper

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    if its a reef tank dont use any ich medicine even if it says reef safe its like playing russian roulet trust me i know and i lost
     
  9. mbeaty

    mbeaty Inactive User

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    Well, ended up setting up an emergency hospital tank to get him the heck out of there asap. Not ideal but I wasn't willing to risk my whole tank of fish and corals and invertebrates for what was probably a
     
  10. mbeaty

    mbeaty Inactive User

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    And going to work on having the hospital tank set up permanently, I don't want to deal with this again.
     
  11. Big Country

    Big Country Inactive User

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    I have an unopened container of Ruby Reef - Kick Ich if you are anywhere near the QC and have any interest in trying it...mail ordered for it, but it turned out the fish didn't have ich (never tried the stuff, but it claims to be reef safe)...permanent hostipal/quaranteen tank is the way to go with all future additions!
     

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