Ich outbreak in tank after polyp lab. Help please

[mollies123]

I recently found some ichs on my purple tang, so I decided to use polyp lab which supposed to be very effective from what I heard. Twice a day, and I turned carbon off. Next day my Atlantic blue tang was dead. And almost all the fish have ichs on them even mandarin gobies. They are miserable. I have five tangs, two wrasses that are ok, 3 mandarin gobies that are semi ok. Two seahorses that are ok. One foxface rabbit fish that has ich. I have two display tank of course that shares the same water system.
Any suggestions?

 

[dannyfish]

You need another tank setup and put all fish in a hyposalinity tank right away. Leave youy display tank fishless for about 3 months.

 

[Pete Horwath]

I just went thru the same thing. You have to get them out of there asap and put them ina quarantine tank. I put an air stone in the quarantine tank and turn it way up. There is nothing you can do for the fish which are affected while they have spots except get them as much oxygen as you can as ICH attacks the gills and the fish usually suffocate, if there is a lot of air in the water most will survive. Do not turn the temperature up until the spots drop off the fish as warm water can hold less air and its all about air right now. I use the transfer method and or cupramine to get rid of the itch once it falls off the fish. Nothing treats the itch when it is on the fish. Make sure to step up the cupramine when dosing.

Once you saved the fish the display must be fallow for at least 76 days

 

[Pete Horwath]

There is only one thing you can do. Get them out right away and put them in a quarantine tank with an air stone. Turn the air stone way up. The only thing you can do for ich is get your fish as much air as you can into their water and get them out of the water where the ich bugs are swimming around looking for a fish to attack. I don’t do anything but lots of air until the spots drop off. Then i begin to treat with cupramine and also transfer them to a separate qt tank if you have one. If you have two qt tanks you can use the transfer method moving your fish from QT tank to QT tank every 3 days. Do this five times and you should be alright just do not put ANY fish back in the display tanks for 76 days. Another option is hyposalinity or just dosing with cupramine. I just went thru this in my DT and believe me there aren’t any other options that are guaranteed to work.

 

[cooltowncorals]

If they are dying that quickly check and see if it’s marine velvet if it is good luck. The wrasses have a thick slime coat and in gerneral are usually not affected the way tangs are because they sleep in sand in the wild they have better natural immunity to it same as clown fish usually live through these things.

If it’s velvet your have to act insanely quickly. Every fish that gets it will most likely die.

You could try adding UV sterilizer to system and use in conjuction with polyplabs and could ride out ich. I have added UV to setups and the ich got to low enough levels to where It was no longer noticeable. the population won’t sustain over 1year without new additions due to inbreading but you can’t add new fish