Ugh Ick Help Please

[Waffen06]

So it looks like my Coral Beauty and Yellow tang have ick. All fish have been together awhile except the yellow tang added 3 weeks ago. There was some fighting night one but been very peaceful ever since. Anyways I do not have a hospital tank, I have a spare 20 gallon I could try to set up but dont know how the two would do in that tank. There are also two clowns and a Cardinal in the tank that dont seem to have any spots. Whats my best course of action? I have a small UV I could add to the tank only like 9 watt. Tank is a reefer 250.

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

You’re going to catch grief for having them in a 50 gallon tank so just prepare for that. You need to search for ich treatment vs. management and decide. I would do more observation and be sure it’s ich and not worse.

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

Ich eradication vs. Ich management

Ich eradication vs. Ich management The purpose of this article is to discuss the pros & cons of ich eradication and ich management, and present the best methods for implementing each. Ich eradication - Simply put, this method means doing everything possible to keep ich out of your tank. That...

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[PTXReef]

I did a cupramine treatment for my yellow and hippo tang and then used carbon to get rid of it. However, this and other factors (nutrition) led to HLLE in both tangs. I would recommend doing the treatment for a month and feeding your fish food soaked in selcon or other vitamins. Especially for the yellow tang, I currently feed mine (who is still recovering slowly but surely) seaweed delight, nori, frozen mysis, frozen spirulina brine, NLS pellets, all soaked in selcon and reef plus.

Good luck with the treatment and I hope they do well! Happy reefing!

 

[01xp]

So I'm gonna assume you don't have a qt tank? I would set up that 20 gal to treat good luck

 

[KingTideCorals]

Id look into setting up a QT here is a rundown of how I set my QT up and my quarantining strategies..

 

[PTXReef]

So I'm gonna assume you don't have a qt tank? I would set up that 20 gal to treat good luck

+1, I would let your main display go fallow for a couple months while treating your fish in the 20g. Or pick up a few cheap QT tanks when petco has the $1/gallon sale.

 

[Waffen06]

Yeah I dont have a petco near me. The 20 is the largest I have but I cant see a small yellow tang, coral beauty, 2 full size clowns and a banghi being happy in there for two months correct? Would management be my only option? I can order a larger UV to add.

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

A UV isn’t going to solve your problem IMO. The thread posted gives you your 2 options. Read it carefully, read it again, and decide. No one is gonna pop in this thread with a magic bullet.

 

[Waffen06]

Question about Ick, can it only be seen under blue lights? My lights turned off so I used my phones flashlight to look at them and cant see any spots. I turn back on my lights to only blues and can see them, turn on my whites with blues and nothing. The dots are tiny and cover my coral beauty, they are only on the head of my yellow tang

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

I don’t think so.... I dunno. Are they flashing? Swimming into return or powerhead, acting weird? I hope it isn’t velvet. Usually ich is a few scattered spots.

 

[01xp]

I've never heard of ich evening seen only under blues. If it looks like spots of salt then it's ich..... If it looks like someone threw a bucket of glitter on your fish then it's velvet.......i just lost a tank to velvet good luck

 

[Waffen06]

Thats what I was just reading, the tang as a couple spots the coral beauty is covered

 

[01xp]

The angel can does it look like you can count the spots? Is he swimming into a power head?

 

[Waffen06]

They are not acting odd at all, they ate like normal. Lights have gone out so they are hiding in the rock like they normally do

 

[01xp]

Okay then it doesn't sound like velvet....

 

[Waffen06]

Okay then it doesn't sound like velvet....

Thats good but it does look like he has sugar sprinkled all over him. If they are hopefully alive in the morning Ill try to get better pictures

 

[vetteguy53081]

coral beauty appears to have velvet which looks like ich, but with numerous dots covering the fish.
I have had great success with Polyp Labs MEDIC which cleared it in 3 days. Copper will work also but MEDIC is less harsh.

 

[01xp]

Vetteguy you think it's velvet? When I had the outbreak it was very fine dots those are pretty large at least to me. @Waffen06 vetteguy has been here longer than me I would listen to him. I can only give my first hand experience but I've only been reefing for 2 yrs.

 

[Waffen06]

Im very confused, lights are coming on this morning. Everyone is out acting normal and I cant see anything on the coral beauty, do they normally have a fluorescence to them? I see maybe one little white dot on the yellow tang near its mouth