is this ick?

[lanacane214]

is this ick?

 

[lanacane214]

he has been with me 3 years maybe longer, if not ick what is it?he is not eating and breathing is not right

 

[bigcapct]

Looks like it to me

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

It does look like ich to me too. how long ago was the last fish you purchased? Maybe it could of come from your last fish you purchased?

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Definitely ich dude

 

[roc5288]

Definitely ich dude

+ 1 Try getting him out of your Dt and treat if possible.

 

[jcohen9999]

Catching it for treatment might cause more stress and just speed up the process of killing the fish, I have personal luck with feeding with garlic soaked foods and adding a cleaner shrimp or two into the system. I know many will say this is a myth but it worked for me both times I had a breakout and I didnt lose any fish (although the shrimp dont seem to last very long in my system). I personally believe your best defense is a healthy well fed fish.

 

[NewfiDog]

A couple weeks ago the wife bought me a fish and well it wasnt in great shape and died 2 days later. Boom a few days later a couple of my fish had ich. Russ showed me this product http://www.saltwatercritters.com/inc/sdetail/1150/3927 its been a few days and its almost all gone there swimming normal, eating, and grazing. Not sure if it was the product but for now im thinking so.

Oh yeah thanks Russ you da man. My chevron tang is doing fine.

 

[LongIslandAndy]

catching it for treatment might cause more stress and just speed up the process of killing the fish, i have personal luck with feeding with garlic soaked foods and adding a cleaner shrimp or two into the system. I know many will say this is a myth but it worked for me both times i had a breakout and i didnt lose any fish (although the shrimp dont seem to last very long in my system). I personally believe your best defense is a healthy well fed fish.

+1

 

[jlm192]

looks like ick

 

[Breakin Newz]

Spots appear then disappear as Marine ich goes through its cycle! Just because you see the nodule disappear does not mean you have cured the fish! The nodules fall off the fish to form a cyst that will start the cycle all over again..

The best treatment is to QT!! Don't be fooled by the I don't see it so its gone scheme!

 

[NewfiDog]

Yup thats the claim of that product, that it does not treat the fish and tells you not to stop treatment even if spots are gone. I think if you can catch him an QT him the problem is you need to remove all fish as the tank needs to be fish free for a period of time.
http://rubyreefinc.com/index.php?op...=47:kick-ich&catid=35:documentation&Itemid=56

I hope it works im half way threw the treatment.

 

[KurtL]

Putting a fish in quarintine is probably not the right thing to do the fish was odviously stressed for some other reason which weakened him enough to make him susceptable. Putting him in a foreign system will just stress him more and definatly kill him. I wouldnt be too hopeful about that rubyreef stuff I've never seen it work. Any product that claims to be safe to use in a reef is probably too dilute to be effective in the first place.

 

[Flashy2003]

Definitely ick. But the good thing is clowns are strong. Mine had ick so bad once he was completely white. And he pulled through. Good luck.

 

[lanacane214]

I think he died can't find him my purple tang has it to but he is acting normal and eating tomorrow I am going to hook up a uv sterilizer maybe that will help. Thanks

 

[KurtL]

Is this a reef tank?

 

[rookie07]

Cleaner shrimp or cleaner wrasse should help your ich infested fish fend off the parasite

 

[mic_1011]

def ick! if you don't have any corals, there is a product called cupramine by seachem. worked well for me. best part is its removable with carbon or cuprisorb and you can later add coral!

 

[basiab]

The improvement you saw is just the cycle of it. Those products don't work. Read up on the different ways to batlle it, pick one and go with it. And don't use cupramine or any copper in your display tank, they kill the whole biological process not just critters.

 

[mic_1011]

you can use cupramine in a display tank. its molecular structure allows it to be removed from the tank with no leaching. of course this goes for a fish only tank!!! if you don't have any corals currently or if you can remove your corals for a short period. i was told by my lfs that it was possible and that they had used it in a reef display tank. i was skeptical at first but i only had a fowlr at the time anyway-so what did i have to lose? it worked against the ick and i keep corals and anemones now. don't believe me, research it...and no i don't work for seachem. i just found a product that was true to it's claim. as for any other form of copper-don't use those in your display! oh and my crabs lived through it