Do you have an ich-less aquarium?

Fowler freak · Mar 10, 2020

Do you truly have an ich-less system?

phatduckk · Mar 10, 2020

Yup. My fish Have been fully quarantined, same with my snails, crabs, shrimp & coral.

Bought QT’d fish and housed all inverts and coral in a separate tank for almost 3 months before they got in my DT.

Clownreef · Mar 10, 2020

Yes but it wasn’t always that way. I had to go through the nightmare that is ich and understand it to have an ich free system. It’s worth the trouble of QTing treating your fish.

Copingwithpods · Mar 10, 2020

It's not ich my fish are in their teens, it's pimples.

AlexG · Mar 10, 2020

No. I have ich my system. Never really worry about it as it only shows up when the fish are stressed and even then it will only be a few spots for a day or two then its gone.

Copingwithpods · Mar 10, 2020

AlexG said:
No. I have ich my system. Never really worry about it as it only shows up when the fish are stressed and even then it will only be a few spots for a day or two then its gone.

jerrod · Mar 10, 2020

Nope. Screwed up and currently on week 3 of going fallow.

LovesDogs_CatsRokay · Mar 10, 2020

Nope, definitely have ich in the tank, and I’m okay with that.

zalick · Mar 10, 2020

I've had ich for at least 10 years, probably 20+. Every once in awhile I see a white speckle for a day, maybe two. Then it's gone for a year or so.

ca1ore · Mar 10, 2020

Yeah, ich chez moi also .... have had since 2013. I do wonder how many of the folks who believe their tank to be ich free would get a nasty surprise if they added a highly ich sensitive fish. I have no overt symptoms in my system, unless I try to add an Achilles tang. Spot city!!!

Reef AquaCult · Mar 10, 2020

Yes ich-free. All you have to do is follow the rules. Copper, TTM or hypo on all fish, QT everything else in a fallow tank.

rbancroft · Mar 10, 2020

I have never seen it until 5 days ago. Ich/Velvet either came in on new fish, or been endemic in the tank... Before this, the last 3 fish I put in withered away under mysterious circumstances over a period of several weeks and months, so it's possible there was something there.

Not taking any chances going forward. I put my rock and inverts into a holding tank, will keep that going for 6 weeks. I don't have much coral, but I moved it back to my frag/coral quarantine tank, I'll have to quarantine my clownfish in there at a later date as I have no room.

I am not yet sure what I will do, currently copper treating display tank. After that I will either remove all fish and completely rebuild after copper, or keep the fish in and a round of prazi after.

Also, purchased a UV sterilizer on Monday just in case something gets through.

Greg P · Mar 11, 2020

I believe my DT is ich-free as I've never seen it, although I've had to treat for it in QT and those guys stayed clear

phatduckk · Mar 11, 2020

I should clarify and say something more like "i've done everything reasonable to prevent it". Wouldn't bet my house on it but I've done the best that I can.

There's always a chance that I didn't rinse a snail off well enough etc before transferring it from QT to DT... Or any number of cross contamination possibilities.

lapin · Mar 11, 2020

I dont know. I have done lots to prevent it, but it could be there as said above.

seaplane · Mar 11, 2020

Yes, with reservations. I've had my current fish from 3 - 4 years, have never had any issues, but I did add an un quarantined brittle star 5 months ago. I guess it would have shown up by now ?

Zoaologist · Mar 11, 2020

My 500 gallon reef is completely 100% parasite free, so happy to be able to say that. All of my fish and inverts go through a long qt period in my 180 gallon qt tank that’s always up and going. No chances. I do have ick sensitive fish in my 500 gallon also like an Achilles tang who never show any signs of any parasite.

Highgrade · Mar 11, 2020

ca1ore said:
Yeah, ich chez moi also .... have had since 2013. I do wonder how many of the folks who believe their tank to be ich free would get a nasty surprise if they added a highly ich sensitive fish. I have no overt symptoms in my system, unless I try to add an Achilles tang. Spot city!!!

My Achilles is how I know that one particular tank is ich free. As for my other tanks I'd say 99% certain they're ich free as well. Those tanks are too small to add an Achilles so I cant be to sure about the other 1% nor do I want to chance it.