New Reef Ich Problem

[daniella3d]

now that's going to be efficient against velvet for sure...

herbatamachin won't do anything against marine velvet. It's a total waste of money. At least if you're going to do that, use some real medicine as a dip first, like formaline dip or Seachem Paraguard one hour dip, not snake oil.

Once you will notice sign of sickness, all the fish might be dead 24 hours later.

You don't quarantine after the fish are sick...you treat after the fish are sick..you quarantine BEFORE you put them in your tank so not all your fish become infected if one come out with velvet.

Originally Posted by fabbroc

I talked to an experienced reefer today who told me that he does not quarantine any fish before putting them in but instead adds herbtana as a preventative measure.
Its interesting how everyone has their own methods to treat and prevent illness.
The method I think im going to use is as follows; dose herbtana when fish are added as a precaution or when signs of sickness are shown, and any fish with more severe symptoms will be quarantined and treated accordingly to bring them back up to heath. If my tank was bigger and more costly I would not hesitate to quarantine everything.

On a good note it looks like my clown no longer has ich, just a secondary bacterial infection.
Im not going to post any pictures tonight but im positive its ich. The bumps on the engineer goby are qute large and pronounced.

[RSM]

I have never quarantined anything for over 4 years and have been lucky, but luck runs out. My skimmer pump blew up over night while I was sleeping, tripping the breaker. 8 hours later without any power all the fish have ich and look close to death. Such a sick feeling. Lost 3 fish so far and the rest are bouncing back. Its been a month since this happened. System is a 210 gallon mixed reef.

[Midway]

I did NOT QT before and after my recent DISASTER, I will QT everything before even thinking put anything new in my DT. I lost more than half of my fish population to ick. did not act fast enough when I saw the first signs of it on some fish. A week later many of them were dropping like flies. Its a disturbing feeling knowing that because of my stupidity of not wating to QT because of was too "hard" I lost half of my fish to ick. I did treat my tank with herbatana with somewhat good results, I think that saved one of my hippo tangs that it was almost covered it of that nasty stuff but I lot others died anyways. Now I'm treating with UV lights and its making wonders, ick has retreat it and remaining fish look way better now. QT QT QT QT QT from now on.