Ich Help Now please

[Soronus]

Blah Blah Blah I'm and idiot and let my buddy watching my tank put in fish from his tank later to find out he doesn't QT and buys online fish all the time. Thus I got Ich. My QT was up and ready for new Fish anyway so I tore down the tank and transfer all 10 of the fish from my 150 to my 32 QT tank. Now I'm losing Fish left and right and when one dies it transfers to the other. It is killing me and my family to watch all of our Pets die. Copper is .3. What can I do?

 

[LesPoissons]

They are probably dying because they are super stressed going from a 150 to a 32 and succumbing to the parasites +/- bacterial infection. You can put them back in the 150 and treat the tank, put them back and just try medicated food, or leave them in the 32 and hope for the best. Stress is probably the real killer in your situation.

 

[W1ngz]

All your fish from a 150 into a recently set up QT is probably ammonia. How are you monitoring ammonia in there?

 

[W1ngz]

Copper treatment

Copper treatment What It Treats – Marine Ich (Cryptocaryon irritans) and Marine Velvet Disease (Amyloodinium ocellatum). There is some anecdotal evidence that copper will suppress symptoms of Brooklynella hostilis and Uronema marinum; however it is unlikely to completely eradicate either. How...

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[Soronus]

All your fish from a 150 into a recently set up QT is probably ammonia. How are you monitoring ammonia in there?

I used Tank Water from the 150 with a little bit of new Water 0 Ammonia
I have test the tank 2-3 times and Day with 20% Water Changes every day

 

[W1ngz]

I used Tank Water from the 150 with a little bit of new Water 0 Ammonia
I have test the tank 2-3 times and Day with 20% Water Changes every day

Keep testing. The bacteria that break down ammonia don't live in the water, they're in the rocks and sand which you don't want to expose to copper.

 

[Soronus]

I will. Water Changes every day will also help.. So upset with my self right now. These fish are our pets and I failed them. I got Marine Velvet 7 years ago and it made me quit. At least I didn't know any better back then. This time I QT and I knew better. (Hating myself)!

 

[W1ngz]

Also - Fire that tank sitter! :mad:

 

[Soronus]

Can I Fresh water Dip to pull this Ich off them or do you think I'll lose them?

 

[W1ngz]

What little I know about ich, freshwater dips are therapeutic but don't actually help. The length of time in the dip varies depending if it's ich, possibly flukes, or something worse.

Are you certain it's actually ich? Given the seemingly fast deaths, another possibility could be velvet, but your buddy probably wouldn't have any fish left if it were, so it's unlikely. The deaths are more likely attributable to stress and/or ammonia.

Get some photos of a fish that clearly shows the problem. Maybe a photo of a dead one also if you can.
Then we can get the #reefsquad to confirm what you're actually fighting so we don't make it worse. They can point you to other threads depending on the actual problem you have. They'll also want to know exactly what copper product you're already using.

 

[Reeferboy92]

Blah Blah Blah I'm and idiot and let my buddy watching my tank put in fish from his tank later to find out he doesn't QT and buys online fish all the time. Thus I got Ich. My QT was up and ready for new Fish anyway so I tore down the tank and transfer all 10 of the fish from my 150 to my 32 QT tank. Now I'm losing Fish left and right and when one dies it transfers to the other. It is killing me and my family to watch all of our Pets die. Copper is .3. What can I do?

I had a really bad outbreak of velvet and what I added to my tank was both ruby rally and kick ich and the polyp lab medic along with marine max. It had saved my fish and my porcupine puffer that like so much. I added that stuff for a week and it worked

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

Can I Fresh water Dip to pull this Ich off them or do you think I'll lose them?



just get your copper up and add a bottle of biospira to a foam filter sponge to help with ammonia. I would also get a seachem ammonia badge so you can visually monitor ammonia.

 

[Dom]

Can I Fresh water Dip to pull this Ich off them or do you think I'll lose them?

I've successfully treated ich with fresh water dips and hypo salinity.

Limit the dips to 2-3 minutes and gradually drop your salinity.

 

[hatfielj]

They are probably dying because they are super stressed going from a 150 to a 32 and succumbing to the parasites +/- bacterial infection. You can put them back in the 150 and treat the tank, put them back and just try medicated food, or leave them in the 32 and hope for the best. Stress is probably the real killer in your situation.

This exactly. I dont believe in tearing down a tank just for ich. The stress is what’s killing them for sure. It can be successfully managed in tank with healthy feedings and high powered UV. I have an achilles tang and hippo tang that got ich early on. All I did was feed nori and frozen foods several times a day and added a very large UV filter to the system (my system is 250 gallons and I bought a unit rated for 700 gallons) They’ve been ich free for nearly 2 years now.

 

[Soronus]

This exactly. I dont believe in tearing down a tank just for ich. The stress is what’s killing them for sure. It can be successfully managed in tank with healthy feedings and high powered UV. I have an achilles tang and hippo tang that got ich early on. All I did was feed nori and frozen foods several times a day and added a very large UV filter to the system (my system is 250 gallons and I bought a unit rated for 700 gallons) They’ve been ich free for nearly 2 years now.

I wish I had done this! I'm down to 4 Fish from 12. This has been extremely painful.