Ick Problem HELP!!!!

Additional Info On Ick (Cryptocaryon irritans) ​

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Marine Ick Part I, Steven Pro

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How to Identify & Prevent Saltwater Ich (Cryptocaryon irritans) (Liveaquari.com)

 

raising the temp helps too--au natural

 

thanks guys all is doing well, i used kick-ick along with some of the things you suggested and two weeks later all is goodd, when can i start to stock again, i was looking at getting some tangs, anemones but not sure how long to wait?? just got my new lighting so i do want to try an anemone. all test are normal.

 

Reducing the salinity in the tank should kill ick, it has been suggested that the salt level should be as low as 1.009, what it actually does is reduce the ick hatch time and when they do hatch the low salt level should kill them before they can host a fish. If you followed the salinity route then it would have to be in a quarintine tank, especially if you have any live rock or corals in your tank. Generally it can take 6 weeks or more to be sure that the ick has been killed off in your quarintine tank as well as your main display.

If it's any assurance my tangs had an ick outbreak a while back. I decided (well Tangster advised me!) to add vitamin supplements, I stuck with this for about a month and the tangs have been fine ever since! I'm guessing but I think it was about 3 months ago, maybe longer.

 

how long do you think i need to wait after i did th 14day treatment of kick-ick till i can add fish or invert like an Long Tentacle Anemone or power blue tang??

 

I wouldnt add any type of blue tang to that tank! Your ich is just under control and dormant. Adding a blue tang will just reactivate it. The only effective way to kill the ich is copper and removing the fish for 8-12 weeks. I battled ich for 1 1/2 yrs. I had to copper my fish only tank twice. I even took the tank apart, QT the fish in a 75g and treated then with copper, then broke down the tank and washed the substrate and tank in FW, and put the live rock in a trash bin in my garage with a water pump for 12 weeks. The ich still came back so I coppered the whole tank, live rock and all with sea chems cupramine. I removed the copper with copper resin and to this day my copper levels are 0.
This of course will not work on a reef tank!

In the future, QT all your fish for 2-3 weeks and consider FW dips and low dose copper for any new fish. Jungle labs also makes a chlorine analog tablet that you can use on your QT fish. I've used it without any problems. I bellieve its called LifeGuard. There is a FW and SW tablet.

 

I was always under the understanding that ich is always present in our tanks and on the fish. The only reason why it doesnt come out is b/c the fish are healthy. A healthy fish means they have that slimey film on their skin that protects it from ich.

 

What i would do whenever i got ich was i would start feeding them more but not so much at a time where there is food everywhere but a little at a time for about 5 minits also i would by the all natural ich treatment from pets mart treat my tank for a week then do a 10 % water change evry day this has allways worked for me evry time ive gotten ich