ICH-X dip/bath - recommendations?

[MiamiRice]

@Humblefish I'm hoping you get eyes on this!

I've looked everywhere and I can't seem to find the dip or bath recommendation (even on the bottle) for ich-x in terms of amount of medication:water volume?

I'm treating what I am almost 100% certain is brooks on my clownfish.

They had an episode about 2 weeks ago where they pretty perfectly matched the very early stages of the picture in https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/brooklynella.247938/ so I did a very short freshwater dip followed by a 10-min dip in ich-x.

It went away almost completely but came back again yesterday, where I did a 25-min freshwater bath followed by a 10 minute ich-x dip. The bigger female clown looks almost symptom free today and is behaving normally, but the smaller male clown went from having the raised scales/blotchy whiteness yesterday, to having what looks like deteriorating fins today, and he is not interested in food.

A detail I am confused about is that there is no mucus on his fins like in most pictures you see of brooks, the deterioration almost look like the fins were burned or nipped away.

The concentration I've been using is 1/2tsp : 1 gallon of water for 10 minutes but I want to try again today on the smaller clown for a more extended bath and make sure my dosage is accurate.

 

[Humblefish]

Because Ich-X contains such a low concentration of formaldehyde (<5%), I would use it directly in the QT for prolonged exposure instead of a bath treatment. Treat for 4 days redosing every 24 hours. But do a large water change (50%) before each new dose.

It will take a little longer to completely clear brook this way, but even low level formalin like Ich-X should still be effective.

 

[MiamiRice]

Because Ich-X contains such a low concentration of formaldehyde (<5%), I would use it directly in the QT for prolonged exposure instead of a bath treatment. Treat for 4 days redosing every 24 hours. But do a large water change (50%) before each new dose.

It will take a little longer to completely clear brook this way, but even low level formalin like Ich-X should still be effective.

Thanks so much for the insight - I do not currently have a QT setup and don't have the ability to get one for the next couple of days....in the meantime what would be the best course of action? I have ich-x and hydroplex on hand and am feeding a combination of metroplex/kanaplex bound with focus. I could get other meds if necessary to start doing dips/baths as a more immediate course of action...

 

[Humblefish]

Thanks so much for the insight - I do not currently have a QT setup and don't have the ability to get one for the next couple of days....in the meantime what would be the best course of action? I have ich-x and hydroplex on hand and am feeding a combination of metroplex/kanaplex bound with focus. I could get other meds if necessary to start doing dips/baths as a more immediate course of action...

If you are just doing a FW dip + bath, and then putting the clowns right back in your DT... they will just keep getting reinfected with brook.

 

[MiamiRice]

If you are just doing a FW dip + bath, and then putting the clowns right back in your DT... they will just keep getting reinfected with brook.

Good point - so should I pull all my other fish as well then to starve it out? Nothing else is affected (Helfrichi, leopard wrasse, neon + Catalina gobies, yasha goby)

 

[Humblefish]

Good point - so should I pull all my other fish as well then to starve it out? Nothing else is affected (Helfrichi, leopard wrasse, neon + Catalina gobies, yasha goby)

Yes, you need to go fallow for 6 weeks in order to eradicate brook from your DT.