My tank is going down hill quick!

[Brian Kennedy]

It's been a rough three weeks. I crushed a fire fish under a rock and didn't realize it, the yellow tang kicked the bucket (harassment stress I think), lawnmower blenny unexpectedly died and now my clowns and my powder brown have ich! Not to mention the GHA and Cyano! Just started a round of Kick Ich. Hopefully everyone pulls through. Anyone have first hand experience with Kick Ich?

I'm slowly running the temp up to 84 degrees. Salinity is slowly being lowered to 1.019.
PH = 8.3
NH3 =0
NO2 = 0
NO3 = about 5 to 10

72 gallon bow front
20 gallon long sump
Chaeto w/Pods
powder brown tang
2 oscillarus clowns
3 blue green chromis
1 pintail fairy wrasse
1 fire fish
1 coral banded shrimp
1 skunk cleaner
2 hermits
a few snails
emerald crab
strawberry crab
Japanese pistol shrimp

 

[pdxmonkeyboy]

kick ich and higher temperature will do nothing for marine ich.

I dont know why they sell that stuff honestly.

look at the stickies, there are plenty that cover ich.
sorry you are having problems.

but again, dont raise the temp, it will further stress the fish via increased metabolism

 

[Maritimer]

Raising the temperature works very well for _freshwater_ ich, but is useless in salt water. Kick-Ich seems to be pretty useless as well - though I suppose you could use the bottle as a paperweight.

You'll need a quarantine tank and either copper or Chloroquine Phosphate (CP) if you want ich _gone_ from your tank. It can be controlled, but if you choose to run an "ich management" tank, you'll probably never be able to keep some fish, such as Acanthurus tangs - like that powderbrown.

Read here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-cryptocaryon-irritans.191226/#post-2192627

and here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-eradication-vs-ich-management.188775/#post-2171424

~Bruce

 

[HotRocks]

Raising the temperature works very well for _freshwater_ ich, but is useless in salt water. Kick-Ich seems to be pretty useless as well - though I suppose you could use the bottle as a paperweight.

You'll need a quarantine tank and either copper or Chloroquine Phosphate (CP) if you want ich _gone_ from your tank. It can be controlled, but if you choose to run an "ich management" tank, you'll probably never be able to keep some fish, such as Acanthurus tangs - like that powderbrown.

Read here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-cryptocaryon-irritans.191226/#post-2192627

and here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-eradication-vs-ich-management.188775/#post-2171424

~Bruce

It's in the helpful links Bruce posted. You will have to move ALL of the fish from display and treat them with copper or CP in QT.

Then allow DT to be fallow for 76 days.

I agree raising temp further will just stress the fish out and kick ich is good for nothing, except taking up space in the trashcan.

 

[Auto-pilot]

I've had some good luck with ich-x, I don't know if anyone else has experimented with it. There's a "reef safe" one, don't use that one