so i recently lost all my fish about a week ago after i threw a powder brown tang in there. so now im just watching the spores float around the tank. ive read a very broad spectrum of how long they will live without a host. right now i uped the temp to 82, and am goin to add 2 tsp of salt/gallon. i heard that helps. i also bought rid ich , but have coral in there along with a cleaner shrimp and hermits. the prescribed dose is 5 ml/10gallon i believe, so i was wondering if i can speed up the process of cycling the ich or killing it by adding about 10 ml/my entire 75 gallon tank without it harming my inverts. ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks
ich in my display tank
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metalhed3;4582732; said:
Does it say that it is invertebrate safe? If it has copper in it, its not.
That being said...adding salt and increasing temperature are cures for FRESHWATER ICH. Marine ich is pretty much the opposite, although people still keep the temps high to speed up the life cycle of the parasites. I would lower salinity. Best solution - better h2o quality and better diet. When provided those things your fish wont get ich.
That aside, best course of action now is probably removal and QT treatment.
i dont have any fish left. all thts left is my coral and shrimp and hermits. but like i was saying, if i dosed it very little with the rid ich even tho its not reef safe, im thinking tht theyll be alrite if i do a capful every 24 hrs. its supposed to be 5ml (a capfull) per 10 gallons. you think tht even that one capfull will affect anything in 75 gallons?
"im thinking tht theyll be alrite " Famous last words? My advice is to either use a hospital tank or, let it run its course. I found this with one click of google-
i saw my fish have ich and i used rid ich and then i read on the bottle that it might harm my live rock does anyone know anything about this
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Yes, it is harmful to live rock. The main ingredients of ich medicines are malachite green, methylene blue, and/or copper compounds. All of these are toxic to invertebrates, including not only the ich parasite, but beneficial ones as well.
i saw my fish have ich and i used rid ich and then i read on the bottle that it might harm my live rock does anyone know anything about this
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Yes, it is harmful to live rock. The main ingredients of ich medicines are malachite green, methylene blue, and/or copper compounds. All of these are toxic to invertebrates, including not only the ich parasite, but beneficial ones as well.
If you dont have any fish leftwhy not just leave the tank alone and left the ich die off. It is my understanding that w/o the fish, ich cannot survive.
BadOleRoss;4583030; said:
Eh...to a certain extent. They go through a life cycle of being in the substrate, so the idea is if you wait long enough without fish that the ich will die off.
A lot of people will tell you that ich is in ALL systems at ALL times...the difference is that with good h2o quality and diet, ich will never be seen. Thats really all there is to it.
ive heard that ich isnt found in all tanks until an infected fish gets introduced. or that ich is in tanks already and eventually present an enviroment ideal for ich to start to bloom. i had read on a seperate site that an individual broke down his tank and took some base rock out and stored it for a couple months. he set up another tank another few months later, and a few months later added that base rock and said that only after that rock was introduced that ich appeared without any introduction of fish. i thought that was pretty crazy. not only that it lived that long, but out of water! i think once i move all my coral frags over to my QT tank ill dose the entire tank lightly to avoid any die off from the LR.
metalhed3;4583405; said:
Copper meds WILL kill your rock. And will hold the CU to poison inverts later. Just a warning.
Yeah, Cu use will pretty much destroy your rock and kill off your coral.
It will also stay in sand and filter media.
Cryptocaryon (AKA marine ich) will live for a LONG time without a host. Get your temp down to the mid 70s and drop the salinity to help kill it off. Sounds like you found the freshwater treatment, not the marine treatment.
It will also stay in sand and filter media.
Cryptocaryon (AKA marine ich) will live for a LONG time without a host. Get your temp down to the mid 70s and drop the salinity to help kill it off. Sounds like you found the freshwater treatment, not the marine treatment.
