Blue Regal with ICH!

[Telford]

I recently added a blue regal tang to my fairly young tank (10 weeks). He had a couple spots of ich within a day or two of adding him but now he's completely covered in it. I only have a yellow tang, a royal gramma and a couple scooter blennies in the tank.

Should i do something about it or give it some time. Freshwater dip? Any help is very appreciated....

[mark]

Getting the impression it's always going to be around unless you remove all fish and treat in a QT (hypo-salinity or copper) and let the tank go fish-fallow.

There's a chance the fish can get over it and it won't show up again or it could kill them all. Risk you're taking if you try to wait it out, fish might be too weak for treatment if things start going bad.

[Telford]

He seems somewhat happy, he's out and swimming and he's eating...

[mark]

All good.

Going through something similar. Added a Regal to an established system that hadn't shown ick in something like 4+ years. After about six months noticed a few spots on the Regal then which cleared up in a few days and nothing since (been ~2 months).

Was and still am a little torn if I should pull the tank apart to get the fish out, place in a QT with the risk associated or let things be (which guess I'm sort of doing).

Still kicking myself for not quarantining from the start. All the hassle to treat for the whole tank compared to the minor effort of setting up for one fish.

[Telford]

He doesn't just a have a few spots unfortunately...He's completely covered in it.... thinking i gotta do something. Gonna try a dip i think

[mark]

Read this?

[bv_reefer]

are'nt scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp good for picking of parasites?