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11-19-2009, 03:13 AM
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Well I followed everyone's advice and raised the temp in my tank and lowered the salinity that helped for a few day. I also started adding garlic guard to there food. didn't see any sign of it for almost a week. then on thursday night I noticed my yellow tang with a few spots. by morning my one Black Ocellaris started to get spots too. By the weekend it was really bad and my other Ocellaris started to get spots. I also pulled my urchin out thinking maybe that had something to do with it. thats the only thing that had been changed in the tank. I went to a local shop and they told me to use ICK ATTACK. I follow the Instructions on the bottle and by morning my yellow tang was floating.... I continued with the treatments and this morning both my Ocellaris were dead. So time to start again.. I'm not going to use the Ick attack again, I'm going to do a 25%water change and see where it goes from there.... I've tested the water threw this hole thing and all the levels seen to be safe.. anyone have any ideas
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11-19-2009, 06:57 AM
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what is your Ph at use a calibrated Ph probe Clowns are suseptible to low Ph and does not take much. 1.0 of a drop in Ph can kill a clown if you don't catch it. You could have brooklynella disease in your tank manly clowns get it it may transfer I don't know though, google it. I did a google and it can transfer to other fish similer to Ick. heres a link to some information:
http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/ich...brooklynel.htm I added a carpet nem on the weekend and the shrimp don't go on it. I hope this helps. Bill
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11-19-2009, 08:04 AM
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the most effective way to get rid of ich in a salt water tank is to setup a QT tank and then put all of your fish in that and leave your display fowl for 6 weeks( no fish) inverts and corals are safe, BUT do not add anything to your tank. as the water from the lfs could have ich in it even if u buy just corals or inverts.
the fastest way is to do a 90% water change as it takes the ich in the water colum with and leave it without fish for at least a week and then always, ALWAYS QT new fish when u put them in the DT. ich only lives in fish and will not transfer to inverst and nems. alot of people will tell you that ich can live in LR, which is not true. Ich lives in fishes gills for the most part, and fish that are more succeptable to ich are tangs as they are scaleless, i learned the hard way. my tank only has tangs and clowns in it and i have 300 gallons to worry about be very careful if u put tangs in your tank always QT them for at least 6 weeks just make sure the water quality is excellent! anything else im sure someone else will bring up  Drew
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11-19-2009, 08:06 AM
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the most effective way to get rid of ich in a salt water tank is to setup a QT tank and then put all of your fish in that and leave your display fowl for 6 weeks( no fish) inverts and corals are safe, BUT do not add anything to your tank. as the water from the lfs could have ich in it even if u buy just corals or inverts.
the fastest way is to do a 90% water change as it takes the ich in the water colum with and leave it without fish for at least a week and then always, ALWAYS QT new fish when u put them in the DT. ich only lives in fish and will not transfer to inverst and nems. alot of people will tell you that ich can live in LR, which is not true. Ich lives in fishes gills for the most part, and fish that are more succeptable to ich are tangs as they are scaleless, i learned the hard way. my tank only has tangs and clowns in it and i have 300 gallons to worry about be very careful if u put tangs in your tank always QT them for at least 6 weeks just make sure the water quality is excellent! anything else im sure someone else will bring up Drew
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