i have seen salt fail time and time again loosing tank full of fish not personally but have seen many on here i think a specific grade of salt is needed in order to kill of the ich so if you a noob or have no way of monitoring your salinity id suggest just go with the meds they completely safe as long as you read the instructions and take precaution
ICH ---- HELP!!!
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You guys realize this is the "General Salt" section right?
The best thing to do is quarantine the fish, if you have the facility to do so, and place a UV on the QT and wait.
Assuming this is a marine fish, a fresh water dip may work also, this causes some kind of osmotic something or other and the parasite will literally pop.
The best thing to do is quarantine the fish, if you have the facility to do so, and place a UV on the QT and wait.
Assuming this is a marine fish, a fresh water dip may work also, this causes some kind of osmotic something or other and the parasite will literally pop.
OK you are all wrong sorry to say, you are supposed to lower salinity, reffered to as HYPOsalinity, not HYPERsalinity.
The only posts that make sence are the freash water dips as they cause osmotic shock with litteraly bursts the ich parasite, but you cannot osmotic shock your tank, so you need to quarentine all your fish for 5 weeks outside the system wile the parasite lives through its cycle and all dies out, if you cant do that you need to do many massive water changes, and even that mite not help.
Here is a link its good, its thurough and its not posted by a bunch of people who contradict themselves and know nothing about the biology of the parasite. This is a completely non-medicated method, and will not harm fish.
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/ich.html
The only posts that make sence are the freash water dips as they cause osmotic shock with litteraly bursts the ich parasite, but you cannot osmotic shock your tank, so you need to quarentine all your fish for 5 weeks outside the system wile the parasite lives through its cycle and all dies out, if you cant do that you need to do many massive water changes, and even that mite not help.
Here is a link its good, its thurough and its not posted by a bunch of people who contradict themselves and know nothing about the biology of the parasite. This is a completely non-medicated method, and will not harm fish.
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/ich.html
i've lived and had deaths with ICH, i bought this stuff called Ruby Reef's Kick ich, its reef safe about a 1-2 week process only 1 water change needed at the start.
it is reef safe, none of my corals or inverts died from using it, has 0 traces of copper and i only did half the treatment.
i got a baby blue tang and it had ich, my clowns got it then my goby got it. sadly the tang died so i went online and bought some of the kick ich, heard mixed opinions from it but i thought hey why not try it.
did a 30% water change and added in the kick ich with the new water turned off the skimmer for about 1-2 hours so the medicine could work through the system and not get taken out by the skimmer right away. waited 4 days and added more of the required amount, then waited another 3 added some more and when another 3 days came around the ich was visibly gone so i did one more dose just to be sure, and sure enough it solved the problem.
All the while doing this i was soaking the fish food in Seachem Garlic Guard. I think the garlic guard helped a lot to boost the fish immune system.
i would recommend this product, try it out for yourself if you choose to, it worked great for me
it is reef safe, none of my corals or inverts died from using it, has 0 traces of copper and i only did half the treatment.
i got a baby blue tang and it had ich, my clowns got it then my goby got it. sadly the tang died so i went online and bought some of the kick ich, heard mixed opinions from it but i thought hey why not try it.
did a 30% water change and added in the kick ich with the new water turned off the skimmer for about 1-2 hours so the medicine could work through the system and not get taken out by the skimmer right away. waited 4 days and added more of the required amount, then waited another 3 added some more and when another 3 days came around the ich was visibly gone so i did one more dose just to be sure, and sure enough it solved the problem.
All the while doing this i was soaking the fish food in Seachem Garlic Guard. I think the garlic guard helped a lot to boost the fish immune system.
i would recommend this product, try it out for yourself if you choose to, it worked great for me
Thanks for the input. I have started raising my temp gradually. I am at 80 right now. I normally keep my tank at 75. The fish seems to be suffering, but none of my other fish have it right now. I am using a product called Microbe-Life HERTANA, which is reef safe. The guy at the store highly recommend this. SHould I do a freshwater dip? If so, how long should I leave him in the freshwater?
If you have already started with meds stick to that. Too many cooks bleh bleh bleh...
Follow the instructions on the meds carefully, they are there for a reason!
Follow the instructions on the meds carefully, they are there for a reason!
Kevin8888;4079412; said:
LMFAO , get ya some
Dip the fish in FW toss in tank.
Make your own live rock, no worries
I already went on my rant about medications, they are never necissary
PREVENTION!!!
Thanks to all for your help. I am medicating my tank to kill the ICH, plus I did my first freshwater bath for the fish. He seems to be more active now...that might have really helped.
Sounds like a good plan, reef safe meds are a life saver for alot of people, but reef safe isnt nessisarily reef safe haha (in my tank anyway, but most cases it is) in my case meds are bad all around as they damage the micro life in my tanks that I rely on for diversity/filtration/food and the like, but in standard non complex systems, reef safe meds usualy are fine and work well haha.
