Ich detected

[oonycxwilloo]

I found ich on my baby hippo,royal grammar, and 2 of my percula clowns...

I have them in my display tank. I read articles about hyposalinity, The problem is how am i going to catch the fishes...it is almost impossible to catch them....

Someone help me....

 

[Tonyscoots84]

ummmmm..... u could try feeding them food with garlic extract and see what happens... they prob. stressed out... ur other option which will require you to get em out would be to quarantine them in a sep. QT tank.. and then u can do what u gotta do to save the fish..

 

[oonycxwilloo]

I would love to save them. But the problem is how can i catch them...i mean the clowns i can catch easily...but the other 2 forget about it...if i stick my hand in there they run into the rocks and hide forever...and especially a net...forget about it...

Well does the garlic really help clear the ich from the tank?

 

[reefman]

1 sure way of catching them with mininal stress is to drain 3/4 of the water

 

[Tonyscoots84]

from what ive been reading ich does not like garlic... its not a guaranteed method as there are heavy debates on this.. but as u said urself ur fish get scared easily so they might have caught it from a weak immune system from gettin scared... takin them out will stress them even more but i do not no the seriousness of there infection to the parasite...

you can try adding the garlic extreme for one week to there food (flakes, nori, whatever else you feed) and see if it works... i did that with my blue hippo and it worked.. i still feed with the garlic extreme.. 2 - 3 drops in all there food presoaked...

 

[reefman]

i think high sg also contribute to ick. i've notice his 29 gal's salinity is 1.027

 

[Dmitry]

Hyposalinity is extremely stressful to fish; it should probably be the last solution to the problem. You can try catching the fish with a commercially available fish trap (I managed to catch a few of my fish that way). Or try to "improve" the fish's living conditions and let nature take its course. Soak the food in garlic; many people swear by that. Make sure the water quality is high, no temp swings, etc.

 

[tangerine]

to my understanding,garlic don't do much to the ich per se. what it does is build up the fishes immune system.a healthy fish should be able to fight off ich easily.
my Tangs do get it off and on but the ich disappear after a short while.if your fishes are active and feeding well,IMO,soak their food with garlic and carry on feeding as normal.

 

[oonycxwilloo]

i think high sg also contribute to ick. i've notice his 29 gal's salinity is 1.027

Reefman, just out of curiousity, how can ou tell that my salinity was 1.027?

And the fishes arent in the 29g it is in the 72g

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Reefman, just out of curiousity, how can ou tell that my salinity was 1.027?

And the fishes arent in the 29g it is in the 72g

Did you trade him anything from that tank? A far shot.
Ppl does test the water par from other members during trades.

 

[qy7400]

Hyposalinity is extremely stressful to fish; it should probably be the last solution to the problem. .....

I've read the complete opposite of this...

http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/hyposalinity.html