Sad day for adidas fish, what happend can you help

[bulletsworld]

Originally Posted by Tarolisol

Well not haveing an established QT tank as of yet so i couldnt treat them. Well ill keep an out on my fish, but i havent seen any signs of ick or anything to suggest they are infected.

Well your not alone. Lots of people don't have established QT tanks set up or just a QT setup for that matter.

I have learned in the past that to be sucessful in hobby you must QT everything (Fish, corals, inverts) for a period of time. You never know what your neibour has got (Red bugs, flat worms, flukes, ich, velvet, etc) or even your LFS. So I have a QT tank's setup & running all the time.

I just finished treating someone's fish in one of my QT tank's. If you need help treating, let me know. I have a open established tank going.

[Tarolisol]

I have just set up a QT tank today and am going to let it run for a little while, and ill keep an eye on the clown and if i see any sign of stress or dots ill QT and treat. what would you suggest for treatment. Hypo salinity or copper? Or is there something else im missing.

[BCOrchidGuy]

I'm a fan of Hypo saline plus Sea Chems cupramine. Get some Seachem marine buffer, you can often times find a tiny jar of it for $4. Set temp and do a fresh water dip then add the fish to the QT tank, lower the salinity over a couple of days and then treat with cupramine. It's much easier on the fish than copper.

Doug

PS good luck, if I need a fish sitter I think I'd pick you.

[Tarolisol]

I have the cuprimine stuff, ive used it before. i never knew it was any different then regular copper though. It worked well on regal tang and box fish.

[bulletsworld]

Hypo saline (Hyposalinity) is not good to do with copper. Water chemistry alone with just hyposalinity in a QT tank that has not been setup very long is also very unstable. In this case I would use copper.

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by Reefhawk1

Ick will actually kill your fish by attacking their gills. The white spots you see on fish is there "incubation stage" I guess you could call it that. I have read in the past that clownfish are immune to ich and that is what makes them a great beginner fish.

Stan

I have had an ich outbreak one time and both my clowns were covered and later died from it. Clowns are not immuned.