Ick

[alkurtys]

My naso tang has blotches on his body and I have no idea what it is. I have transferred him to a 20 gallon quarantine tank with coppersafe I hope this works. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[ryangrieder]

Yes, don't use copper safe. Use seachem's copper...

And goooooooooood luck

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

I like the low salinty instead of copper because you can see the ich just fall right off them when in water at 1.09

 

[alkurtys]

Naso

Well unfortunately he did not make it.

 

[fishman1069]

if its a naso your just stressing it more by putting it in a qt they always get those big white spots when they get scared or something.

Thats not true. If a tang has "white spots" its ich and its not supposed to happen all the time.
Sorry to hear about your loss. Most of the time its better to try and feed the fish with garlic enriched or soaked foods and using a product like Selcon. Pulling a sick fish from the display usually stresses them out even more, which lowers the immune system, and allows the disease to become that much stronger. Its all about the fishes immune system! If you can keep a fish stress free and well feed, it will defeat the ich on its own.

 

[ming]

If the fish already has Ich, then you should definitely take it out into a QT. Trying to treat Ich by feeding it garlic is like trying to fight off the flu with vitamin pills. I rather take drugs to fight off the flu then try to boost my immune system. Garlic is an excellent preventative measure, but its not a treatment.

 

[Og Drogon]

Wouldn't the tank STILL have ich in it???
At least to the life cycle is complete...... The way I got rid of ich before was raising the temp so to speed up the life cycle, treat it with meds, and feed it with garlic....and not intrudes any other fish for like 8 weeks.

 

[ming]

Raising temp doesn't increase the lifecycle speed of saltwater Ich. It is only true of freshwater ich, which is where the misconception came from

 

[Og Drogon]

Raising temp doesn't increase the lifecycle speed of saltwater Ich. It is only true of freshwater ich, which is where the misconception came from

Ohh didn't know that, I guess it's back to reading for me lol

 

[NanoAquatic]

Try Seachem Paraguard, it's good for various diseases

 

[tommy1618]

Is seachem paraguard reef safe?

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Ohh didn't know that, I guess it's back to reading for me lol

For the sake of discussion,

If the tank does not have low temperature demanding animals, raising the temperature in the system helps the fish's metabolism a lot and thus help them fight off diseases. I have an LFS friend, he like to keep one of his saltwater fish tank at temperature even higher than regular fresh water tanks. The fish in that tank are a lot more active than the ones kept in his other tanks at our preferred temperature.

 

[alkurtys]

Higher temp?

What about my corals. Will they tolerate higher temps?

 

[dj ze]

i was always told raise temp but with medication not just raising temp on its own

 

[JavyJaverson]

you sure it was ich? naso tangs tend to show white blotches on their body when they are stressed

 

[bigcapct]

Did u get it in greenwich by any chance?

Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk

 

[alkurtys]

Tang

No I bought it from a friend who buy's wholesale from NY.

 

[TechMan]

I wonder if there are any smaller fish, cleaner fish, that will pick off the ich off a larger fish. There must be something in the wild that feeds on the ich.

 

[JonnyJ]

Cleaner wrasse
Cleaner shrimps