On an up note I recently dealt with a bout of ich on my small Blue Tang.I could not get it out of the 135g and decided to keep feeding with vitamins, garlic and do a few large water changes and sand cleanings over the course of a week and a half. Rationalle was to keep the fish as strong as possible while at the same time reducing the numbers of parasites in the substrate and water. Seems to have worked so, far all fish doing well and no sign of ich in 4 weeks now. I may not be out of the woods yet!
IMHO I believe that if you have alot of difficulty in catching a fish, you can actually do more harm by additional stress and harrasment in trying to remove it.
Hope all pull through!
I posted this in March.
My Blue Tang is 5 times its size now and none of the other fish ever got Ich.
The Blue Tang shows a few spots evey once in a while never seems to do any harm.I also introduced neon cleaner gobies to the tank they, along with the cleaner shrimp do a pretty good job.
Good luck!
I had to look way back in the thread to find the reference I made to the Jersey shore.
" ...Some snails can tollerate a wide range of salinity and other water conditions. When visiting the New Jersey shore, I've seen snails on the tidal mud flats. They are often out of water at low tide, and often in tidal pools where the water temp can get extreme in the summer. ..."
You can find snails all over the tidal mud flats in the back bay area of the NJ shore, from south of Atlantic City to Wildwood. I'm sure it's the same if you go north too. Long Beach Island and so on.
If you want to see this with out walking through the mud, in season, visit the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor NJ. It's on the road that forms the causeway between Stone Harbor and the mainland, Stone Harbor Blvd (route 657). They have a good nature trail and you can get way back into the wetlands, with out getting muddy. Make sure you bring bug repellent! The also have some small aquariums with some local fish and inverts in them.
today, i just bought new metal halide lighting. it is 320 watt in a 90 GAL tank. before i just had flouresent lighting. before i set up the new metal halide lighting, my flame angel, aurigia butterfly and my pearlscale butterfly were all ich free. when i turned on the new lights, they immediately showed signs of ich on their bodies. i left the moon lightijng on for the night. does anybody have any clue on how this could happen so fast or know why this happens? will they get used to it and learn to adapt to brighter lights? has anybody dealt with this before and have any advice? ANY ADVICE WILL HELP GREATLY!
I think we can all agree that lights don't cause ich. It may very well be that with the new intensity and color spectrum, that you are only now noticing the ich splotches on the fish.
Keep an eye on your fish and feed them a variety of foods. My powder brown seems to have developed ich (my stupidity), but is not showing any signs of decline. I think that a healthy fish can overcome ich, but won't hesitate to take it to the next level if required.
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i have had the fish for about 8 months. i QT them when i first got them. they always showed signs of ich here or there( about a day per week), but it was never serious. they always just recovered on their own. today i hevent noticed ich on their bodies, but it could always change.
Ich breeds in the fish and the eggs (trochopores?) emerge to develop in the tank before a larger wave appears. I know that garlic has not studied to prove it helps but it should not hurt to begin thinking about using it.
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