Are you ich management?

[takitaj]

I didn't start with quarantine so management is what I'm stuck with. Good water quality - a healthy, plentiful diet & a 40 watt UV on 24-7 keeps it under control. Do I regret it? Yes, but it is what it is and too late to turn back now.

 

[jmichaelh7]

This has shown a majority don’t quarantine

 

[sundog101]

Never heard of critters eating ich. No such thing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32293-6
Food for thought

 

[iReefer12]

I will never run a tank now without a UV. It is the key to parasite management.

 

[Paul B]

Sponges eat parasites.​

A complete list of foods that sponges eat​

Here is a complete list of foods that sponges will typically eat:

• plankton
• phytoplankton
• viruses
• bacteria
• amoeba
• organic debris
• crustaceans
• algae
• photosythesized nutrients

 

[ying yang]

Nice looking tank and fish,just curious at 15 seconds into video.i see a purple yellow and blue wrasse,what's that as that's one cool fish indeed

 

[jmichaelh7]

I will never run a tank now without a UV. It is the key to parasite management.

I’m setting up my 57 Aqua uv.

I just did 30 day quarantine. I have a feeling 76 days for corals is going to be dreadful and the UV might come into play

 

[Dkmoo]

There is probably ich in my system. All my fish are immune to it. Didn't lose a single fish to it or other disease since I stopped QT.

 

[Miami Reef]

edit…

 

[Bpfor3]

When I first set up my tank ick wiped out all my fish so I did the 76 day fallow religiously QT’d my fish. Didn’t do inverts so I got it again. I ran a 150 watt UV on it for 4 months. No issues since. I have loads of tangs and I see a spot here and there. My tank is now “mature” at 2+ years old. I feed a lot of LRS and clams, etc. no way to know now but I wonder if my feeding regime allows my fish to beat it back on their own versus anything I’m doing or just the nature of a mature system. Even new fish might get a spot or two or five but shake it quickly.

wish there were more concrete answers to these questions bc this is always something others are dealing with.

 

[Squidward]

Nice looking tank and fish,just curious at 15 seconds into video.i see a purple yellow and blue wrasse,what's that as that's one cool fish indeed

That's my infamous Paddlefin Wrasse. Beautiful indeed but it has killed my firefish and one blackcap basslett.

 

[Squidward]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32293-6
Food for thought

Not effective enough though. Ich will still be present. I've had cleaner shrimp become super lazy and only care about food that they don't bother cleaning fish as fish come by them.

 

[Paul B]

Cleaner shrimp may eat 4 or 5 parasites out of the 873 that may be present on a fish.
Cleaner shrimp hate me because parasites won't go near my fish.

 

[jmichaelh7]

When I first set up my tank ick wiped out all my fish so I did the 76 day fallow religiously QT’d my fish. Didn’t do inverts so I got it again. I ran a 150 watt UV on it for 4 months. No issues since. I have loads of tangs and I see a spot here and there. My tank is now “mature” at 2+ years old. I feed a lot of LRS and clams, etc. no way to know now but I wonder if my feeding regime allows my fish to beat it back on their own versus anything I’m doing or just the nature of a mature system. Even new fish might get a spot or two or five but shake it quickly.

wish there were more concrete answers to these questions bc this is always something others are dealing with.

I think UV is killing the floating stage of ich. Quarantine inverts and anything wet is a must. Hopefully we get funding from somewhere where they do research on ich.

And in the future a medicine is developed to wipe out ich with just a single dose of 5ml in your tank .

 

[VLR3]

Has anyone used amoxicillin in their tank before? How did it work for you if so?

 

[flourishofmediocrity]

Ppl on other threads were making the false comparison to puppies

puppies and fish are both living creatures capable of feeling pain, how is that a false comparison?

 

[Lyss]

puppies and fish are both living creatures capable of feeling pain, how is that a false comparison?

Are you serious? We went through this ad nauseum in another thread, and I really don’t feel like having to repeat myself again for you. Puppies are domesticated and fish are not — they are not the same. Unless you are taking a pack of wolf puppies from the forest and raising them in tour home, like we all know so many ppl do.

 

[flourishofmediocrity]

Are you serious? We went through this ad nauseum in another thread, and I really don’t feel like having to repeat myself again for you. Puppies are domesticated and fish are not — they are not the same. Unless you are taking a pack of wolf puppies from the forest and raising them in tour home, like we all know so many ppl do.

So its just OK to let a pet fish have a parasite because it was wild caught? I don't agree with that at all.

 

[Lyss]

So its just OK to let a pet fish have a parasite because it was wild caught? I don't agree with that at all.

Will you please stop? I’m just tired of you showing up and doing this every time. It is a false equivalence. Apples and oranges. On top of that I never said it was okay to let a pet fish have a parasite — those are such simplistic terms. This was discussed, really, ad nauseam in another thread, but you still want to turn up and pick a fight by drawing false equivalencies and putting words in others’ mouths. It’s off-putting.

I’ve said my peace and will not be responding again after this. I don’t want to engage with false equivalences and straw man arguments.

 

[flourishofmediocrity]

Just in case anyone was interested, here's an article showing what is known about fish and how they can feel pain.

It's Official: Fish Feel Pain

The verdict is in. But will our oceanic friends ever get the same legal protections as land animals?

www.smithsonianmag.com

A lot of these parasites can attach to the gills of the fish and suffocate them, not to mention that parasites can make them uncomfortable at best and dead at worst.