deltasigpony...you need to start a quarintine tank..you have flatworms and ich..not good buddy. try to feed your fish a better diet. also there is copper treatment but its not safe for a reef
my LFG told me that he uses a garlic teartment that can clear it up. And if i set up a quartaine tank i will have to tear my whole tank down to catch the fish
yeah you add the supplement to the food and instead of feeding them once in the day you split that feeding up to like 8 smaller portions. apparently the garlic have a antibiotic in it that cures it from the inside out. i really trust this guy hes been in the business for about 12 years i just want to know if anyone else has heard about this treatment.
the garlic is just to boost you fishes immune system. what do you feed your fish?if its just brine shrimp i would buy a few more kinds of food. give them a veriaty...
I'm truly feel sorry about youre ick. Ick was one of my biggest challenge ever, but I WON!! I hate to tell what i'm about to tell you, because I don't want you to think that this is the only solution out there. But i'm telling you, I tried almost every products on the market, you name it i had it. I cured my ick ( includes already affected fishes) with UV sterilization and light off for 1 week. Ick has dissapeared like I never had it before. Why I did it this way? Because I did research about the disease called ick. I found out what they needs and whats they enemies. Ick hates dark, but i knew the high UV sterilization would destroy them. I even covered my tank with a blanket. I didn;t wanted to belive it works! I had the best results without any of those chemicals. Isn't that crazy? The reason I mentioned that I hate to say that, UVS are pretty pricey stuffs, so i don't know.. I just wanted you to know, that I won the battle against those nasty bacterials... BE LUCKY AND DON'T GIVE UP!!!!
yeah i have been looking into a uv sterilizer for like a 600 to 900 gps rating so i can hook it up straight to my return from my sump the only thing that i heard that was wrong with them is that they kill the good bac to but with a live rock and live sand it really does not make that much of a difference only thing is i dont know if they make em that strong other than commercial use and the fact is $$$$$ pricey i bet. thanks for the support i have been freaking out all day the hippo tang was a present for valentines day from my gf and i love him he is the fish i have wanted from day 1
Does your fishes try to scratch themshelves on the rocks? Ick and ich aren't the same. Ick is more dangerous than ich... but ich is usually the beginner status if ick. If you have ich only (scratches without white spots) you can quarantine the fishes for a week and cure them with copper. Ick won't harm corals, They're different type of organisms. They won't host ick.
For your set up you'd lookin' at a 8-9W bulb, with a approx 150 G/Hr. I think a MJ 600 would do it. If you have an estabilished tank with live rocks and sand ( been set up for at least half a year) not to worry about killing good bacts, they'll represent unlike the bad ones.. You can just place a MJ 600 to your sump while yhe UVS laying on the side... Just a thought though..
