Fighting Ich Sucks If You Can't Catch Fish

[kien]

Originally Posted by howdy20012002

if Ich is killing fish that fast, i would say there maybe something wrong within your tank.. either stress or water parameters.
or it is another disease - brook or velvet can look similar
velvet can wipe your tank out very fast
if it is velvet, waiting it out will not work..every fish in your tank will pretty much be dead.
but if they are already showing excessive signs it is too late to treat anyways.
sucks ass when you start having such losses
if you do lose all your fish, make sure you don't put any fish in there for at least 2 months or you could very well go through the exact same thing.
good luck

+1. Velvet can look very similar to ich and a lot if people do mistake it for ich. As said, velvet can kill fish very rapidly. Do a forum search for velvet and you'll find lots of experiences on the matter.


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[Salt2Death]

5 chromis fine and alive, leopard wrasse fine and alive, Mandarin Goby still great, Majestic Fox Face few spots but swimming and eating great, pink anthis doing well.....

Half my fish doing good....?


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[Salt2Death]

Maybe...
Dry rock and sand yup in the display.
2x sumps, one refuge for Algae and plenty of cocopods, second sump is both Algae and live rock from my original set up (3years old n super clean and purple)
I'm vigilant on water perimeters and changes and spot tons of good ole buggies on the rock n glass.

(One odd thing was the explosion of bristle star fish in the refug, thousands of babies on the glass. Must have spawned)

All my corals are doing Amazing so perhaps it's Velvet.... Hope the @$*> not !

But still many fish alive......

Thanx Deny


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[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Salt2Death

Maybe...
Dry rock and sand yup in the display.
2x sumps, one refuge for Algae and plenty of cocopods, second sump is both Algae and live rock from my original set up (3years old n super clean and purple)
I'm vigilant on water perimeters and changes and spot tons of good ole buggies on the rock n glass.

(One odd thing was the explosion of bristle star fish in the refug, thousands of babies on the glass. Must have spawned)

All my corals are doing Amazing so perhaps it's Velvet.... Hope the @$*> not !

But still many fish alive......

Thanx Deny


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glad to hear some are going to make it,besides the spots on the fish how are their colors?? faded like velvet??

i hope its not velvet if it is then you need to get the fish out but if its just ick you have a much better chance on beating it.

if it comes down to it and only you will know if it needs to happen ....you can drain the display to catch the fish, or use a hook and go fishing.


good luck buddy

[Salt2Death]

Colors are good- my fox face is shy but otherwise things look ok....

Few more days if anyone dies I'll catch em all!


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