ICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

My tank has been doing so great since I bought my new skimmer (ASM G2) for my 100ga tank until this morning.

I woke up to my 2 blue hippos covered in white spots and my occ clown has a few spots too. My yellow tang and my sebae clown have nothing but I'm pretty depressed about the others.

Considering selling the tank. Or I might be going reef only. :?

Tested water and all peraminters are okay. Going to bring some water to LFS for them to test incase my test kits are not working well.

Don't know what's going on........

 

[Anonymous]

HELP!!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

You've got a PM.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Wings!

 

[Anonymous]

Did you quarantine the fish before putting them in?

If you those fish have ich the whole tank has ich now. Best case scenario (if you don't want to remove and treat then QT them for 6 weeks) wait it out, if they're lucky they'll build up an immunity to it.

 

[Anonymous]

They've been in my tank for 3 mos now with little problems in the beginning, cleared up and nothing since until now.

 

[Anonymous]

Ok, went home for lunch to check on fish and they look alot better.

2 blue hippos look much better, not white spots but dark spots on their body where the white ones were.

Occ Clown has nothing on his body.

Freak of nature? :?

Starting wet skim and treatment under advisement.

Hopefully they will be fine. (sigh)

 

[Anonymous]

No not a freak of nature, probably an honest to god disease. Just like anything you might get as well. As long as you (or your fish) are nice and healthy there is a chance they can build up a semi-immunity to it and the ich won't affect them as much. Now that being said you will still have it in your tank, so keep that in mind if you ever have declining health of your fish or you introduce any new fish.

 

[Anonymous]

This problem can be mitigated by practicing proper quarantine procedure. Despite some ignorant and outdated advice out there claiming the contrary, C.irritans is NOT always present in a closed system.

Also, it can be eliminated from a closed system populated by fish if the residents build up an immunity. Over time, the parasite is unable to complete it's life cycle in sufficient numbers and is erradicated. This can take a while as subacute infections may pesisit for quite some time.

Having said this, the above scenario is unlikey to occur with the species in question (Hippo). In all likelyhood they will have to be removed to a hospital tank and treated. Also, it's extremely common for the apparent density of the infestation to ebb and flow from one time of the day to another. You might get up in the morning and the fish are covered, come home from work and the infestation appears to have subsided...same thing the next day, etc....until you start losing fish.

I suggest you do a search here on RDO and find the series of articles by Terry B. written on this subject.

Jim

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jim!

I think the case of ich didn't not come from the Hippo's. I introduced a Yellow Tang about 10 days ago. YT looked fine at LFS and 2 days after putting him in my tank, he had produced spots. He now has no spots and my 2 Hippo's now do. I think I know the culprit.

I will treat accordingly. Thanks for your insight in this matter.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jim!

I think the case of ich didn't not come from the Hippo's. I introduced a Yellow Tang about 10 days ago. YT looked fine at LFS and 2 days after putting him in my tank, he had produced spots. He now has no spots and my 2 Hippo's now do. I think I know the culprit.

I will treat accordingly. Thanks for your insight in this matter.

This problem can be mitigated by practicing proper quarantine procedure.

 

[WRASSER]

cvp7900,
What is your water temp?

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jim!

I think the case of ich didn't not come from the Hippo's. I introduced a Yellow Tang about 10 days ago. YT looked fine at LFS and 2 days after putting him in my tank, he had produced spots. He now has no spots and my 2 Hippo's now do. I think I know the culprit.

I will treat accordingly. Thanks for your insight in this matter.

This problem can be mitigated by practicing proper quarantine procedure.

I know, I know. My bad. Didn't have spots at LFS.

 

[Anonymous]

cvp7900,
What is your water temp?

82

 

[Anonymous]

I know, I know. My bad. Didn't have spots at LFS.

They break out in spots later, due to stress...sorry you are having such problems. Did you look through the archives here and form a plan yet? I'd pull all of the fish out and treat them rather than giving up .

One of those huge rubbermaid storage tubs would work nicely for a cheap hospital tank, all you realy need is circulation-canster filter would work nicely, a heater and some PVC pipe hidey spots for the fish. Of course large frequent WCs are necessary because there isn't much biological filtration.

If you do decide to pull them and treat em, be sure you don't cross contaminate from your hospital tank to you reef tank by using the same hoses, etc!

 

[Anonymous]

Never thought about a rubbermaid container. Gunna try that. Been doing water changes on the main.

Thanks!

 

[WRASSER]

Have you taken precautions to help prevent the ICH from coming back?

 

[Anonymous]

Have you taken precautions to help prevent the ICH from coming back?

The only 100% way to do that is if she pulls the fish from the main tank and treats them for the infestation. Then she'd need to leave the main tank fish-free for at least 45-60 days and starve the lil buggers (the Ich parasite) out before she puts her fish back in.

 

[Anonymous]

Have you taken precautions to help prevent the ICH from coming back?

Yep! I have my UV sterilizer on and it's all cleared up. I plan to keep it on for the next 60 days along with frequent water changes and it should be all gone (killed).

 

[Anonymous]

How do you plan on treating the fish?