red slime + fish with ich?

Lady Blast

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I am having trouble with red slime but I am treating my clown for ich for 6 days down with paraguard and he isnt cured T__T I really need to do a water change. I did a 50% change 6 days ago and I have a huge bloom of ugly algae all over and one rock has red slime. Should I 50% water change and try copper treatment and forget about paraguard? Overnight the left large chunk of live rock has now turned brown. This has been setup for almost 4 months now. I haven't had charcoal in for 6 days and havent done a water change in 6 days due to trying to cure ich which isnt looking very cured. My tank looks so ugly now ughhhhhhh.

 

Fish Fingers

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Paraguard wont kill ich and using copper in your display could be disastrous. The algae's coming from high nutrient levels, possibly your tap water if not using ro/di and also from feeding your fish.
 

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I highly wouldn't recommend copper because even though it does a good job, you'll never be able to keep inverts ever. So if one day you decided to get an anemone for your clown or want a shrimp or starfish, they'll all die once you add copper to the tank.
I would first separate the clown in a qt tank and try ick attack or some other type if ick medication. If that still fails, you could try hyposalinity but its a pretty long and tedious process.


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Lady Blast

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Thank you guys so much!!

I have the aquaclear 70 on it and the large air disk. I just put the air disk on 6 days ago when I read to not have any dead circulation zones in the water. I will setup 6 gallon QT and use quickcure?
 

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I am having trouble with red slime but I am treating my clown for ich for 6 days down with paraguard and he isnt cured T__T I really need to do a water change. I did a 50% change 6 days ago and I have a huge bloom of ugly algae all over and one rock has red slime. Should I 50% water change and try copper treatment and forget about paraguard? Overnight the left large chunk of live rock has now turned brown. This has been setup for almost 4 months now. I haven't had charcoal in for 6 days and havent done a water change in 6 days due to trying to cure ich which isnt looking very cured. My tank looks so ugly now ughhhhhhh.

with ich in a tank with live rock you cannot use copper it will kill all inverts and make the live rock useless, if you have access to a hospital tank you could transfer the sick fish there and treat with copper then after the fish is healthy and all ich signs are gone you can re-acclimate back into the display tank if you cannot do this paraguard is okay but I have had great success with this product here

http://www.marinedepot.com/Ruby_Ree...ations-Ruby_Reef-RR1111-FIMEPS-RR1113-vi.html

As far as the red slime I think you said in a previous post this was a new tank how old is it? what are you feeding your fish and how much, what is the water parameters?
 

Lady Blast

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ammonia/nitrate/nitrite spiked to .25, did a water change and back to 0. no ph kit atm, temp is 78. running aqua clear 70 and using a air disk on the other end of the tank. feeding flake once a day, going to ask my brothers gf if she has been feeding them when I am at work...didn't think of that before. Sometimes I feed two times a day, once with flake; just a pinch so that they eat it all, and a cube of marine cuisine which is probably too much food. Salinity is 1.026

I set the tank up in June as a 6 gallon, then 2 weeks later I used all that water and live rock and made the 30 gallon. I waited until the end of August for any fish. Using Prime and good bacteria.

Screw petco and it's stupid ICH fish. My 4 chromis never came down with it that I got from my LFS ....should have drove the extra 15min to the LFS to begin with. I am mad that I didn't catch the ich to begin with, I was too busy blabbing and didnt inspect well enough.

paraguard def does not cure ich


Thank you all very much for your replies and help, I greatly appreciate it!
 
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