Is my tank sick?

[32biocube]

I notice that my yellow tang is getting tiny white spots, after doing a little bit of research i think i found out it has ICH, i dont have quarantine tank, and i also notice that my puffer its loosing color and appetite, im afraid all my fishes are getting infected, any suggestions to help getting my fishes happy again? I got a coral banded shrimp i heard those help eating parasites and cleaning the fishes too!

 

[Oscar47f]

Coral banded shrimp don’t really, their cousins the skunk cleaner shrimp do... do you need to make sure you’re feeding them appropriately and that there’s no aggression in the tank... you should be supplementing your tangs diet with green nori or if you use pellets then spirullina based pellets.. you can soak your foods in selcon to help.... or you can feed medicated foods like doctor G’s de-wormer and such... they naturally come on all livestock unless quarintined and gotten rid of.. fish naturally love with ich and it only flares up badly if the fish is stressed for some reason...

 

[Shanet]

If one fish has ICH all of them have it, shrimp wont help in managing the disease. Read about ICH management here. ICH management

Start ASAP if you want your fish to survive.

 

[32biocube]

If one fish has ICH all of them have it, shrimp wont help in managing the disease. Read about ICH management here. ICH management

Start ASAP if you want your fish to survive.

Thank you, ill take a look at it, very helpful

 

[32biocube]

Coral banded shrimp don’t really, their cousins the skunk cleaner shrimp do... do you need to make sure you’re feeding them appropriately and that there’s no aggression in the tank... you should be supplementing your tangs diet with green nori or if you use pellets then spirullina based pellets.. you can soak your foods in selcon to help.... or you can feed medicated foods like doctor G’s de-wormer and such... they naturally come on all livestock unless quarintined and gotten rid of.. fish naturally love with ich and it only flares up badly if the fish is stressed for some reason...

Will keeping the tank between 80 to 85F will help to control or reduce the ICH!?

 

[32biocube]

Will keeping the tank between 80 to 85F will help to control or reduce the ICH!?

I read on another site that high temp will help, but not sure. As i also have 2 anemones

 

[Shanet]

High temp helps in freshwater tanks, not so in salt. Your anemones wont catch it but can transmit it.

 

[Dbichler]

No high temps don’t help. I hope these aren’t in a bio cube because that would be why you have ich. Stress from size restrictions. You can either manage or treat in a separate tank from this point forward. Good luck.

 

[Oscar47f]

Will keeping the tank between 80 to 85F will help to control or reduce the ICH!?

No it won’t help... like I said medicated foods and making sure they eat well is paramount no matter what route you take... best practice is to set up a small quarintine tank and slowly lower the salinity after you put the fish in... and dose copper, the copper in a regular tank will kill the anemones so that’s why it has to be a separate tank... the quarintine process will take weeks though...

 

[32biocube]

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No it won’t help... like I said medicated foods and making sure they eat well is paramount no matter what route you take... best practice is to set up a small quarintine tank and slowly lower the salinity after you put the fish in... and dose copper, the copper in a regular tank will kill the anemones so that’s why it has to be a separate tank... the quarintine process will take weeks though...

What type of medicated foods are good, any suggestions ?

 

[Oscar47f]

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What type of medicated foods are good, any suggestions ?

The only one I can vogue for is Dr.Gs dewormer I would do research and see if there’s one that specifically targets ich but that one has worked for me