Ich in tank

[Bryan47]

Hey guys!

So I must have ich in my tank as I've seen white spots (less than 10) on my hippo tang from time to time. I added a yellow eye kole tang and sadly he succumbed to ich. It's probably been a month now that I have seen the white spots come and go but I haven't chose to treat due to the lack of white spot progression and he seems to be able to fight it off. The kole tang was only in there maybe 4 days. The hippo is my only tang in the tank now. For what reason is my hippo getting ich but none of the others are? I have a treatment tank set up and will use cupramine. Any ways of ridding the tank of ich without going completely fallow? Is only the hippo tang being effected because of tang susceptibility to the disease? I've closely monitored all of my other fish and I see no signs of it. I seem to have the worst luck with tangs and they are my favorite.

 

[Joeganja]

Remove the fish and place in a quarantine tank. Do not add any sand but do add live or dry for the fish to hide in. Place a heater and keep the temperature at 80 degrees farenheight. Keep the lights on a low and only feed garlic added foods or soak frozen food with Garlic Xtreme by Kent Marine or Garlic Guard by Seachem. I reccomend using Copper Power as the medicine to treat ich as it works well and I've had great success especially with Tangs. Run good flow and don't use any carbon or activated carbon in the filter for the quarantine. I reccomend using sponge filters or just running a pump instead of a filter. Keep the fsh fed. Keep them in the quarantine tank for about 4-8 weeks based on the health of the fish and then see if there are any ich signs remaining. After the signs are gone remain keeping the fish in quarantine for about 2 more weeks just to be on the safe side. Also lowering salinity in your quarantine to 2.018 will slow the ich process of reproducing down. However lower the salinity of your quarantine while the fish are in it. Do not lower and then add the fish. Your fish may be in shock and stress out even more if you do. If your tank is overstocked and your quarantine contains alot of fish i recommend running two quarantine tanks. Now you will have high nitrates and nitrites do to no bacteria and pollution of your quarantine that is fine just dose Stability by Seachem and always test your water quality.

 

[Bryan47]

Thank you!

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

This thread has a lot of great info on fighting ich: https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/fi...s/56989-ich-discussion-treatment-options.html