Help on treating ich

[daniella3d]

Look at it with a microscope. could be marine velvet or brooklynella. This is looking less and less like ich.

Originally Posted by Sumfingwong

I do have a question. the fox face looks like he has this white see through slimy thing hanging off of the dorsal fin. It also looks like it has a white dot on the slimy substance. After that, I saw some of this slimy see through stuff in the water column, so I took a net and scooped it out. What is this stuff? a by product of ich?

[Sumfingwong]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Never treat copper in your main tank and never with liverock as it will be contaminated after that and you won't be able to put any invertabrate in that tank.

If you don't have any coral and invertabrate, you can lower your salinity and treat them with hyposalinity, it is much safer than copper.

If you have coral and invertabrate, clam, anemone etc...then you must buy a larger tank or borrow one from someone to treat all your fish and leave the display tank without any fish for 8 weeks.

This is why a quarantine on all fish is the way to go..it avoid such mess.

Thanks Daniella, my original question was if it was ok to leave the DT with the CuC and corals alone (not treating the DT) Will the ich eventually die off in a tank with no hosts?

[daniella3d]

Yes it will die off without a fish host (any fish) so leaving it without any fish for 6 weeks at least, better 8 weeks will assure that the ick is gone from your tank. The ick will not be able to live out of your cleaning crew, only on fish.

Originally Posted by Sumfingwong

Thanks Daniella, my original question was if it was ok to leave the DT with the CuC and corals alone (not treating the DT) Will the ich eventually die off in a tank with no hosts?