Ich in your reef tank?

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[ryangrieder]

You just won't put it to rest huh? You made your plenty of negative remarks on my thread, especially you bad advice, now your trying to be mr. Honest and caring?:irked: whatever, it's not even worth it.

But just remember, if you give advice like you did on my thread, someone here will call you out if your wrong. Might be mean, might be a friendly, but no one wants to have someone new to salt read bad advice and Follow with it then fail.

And Jon, thank you for That. It makes me want a slim Jim. Lol

 

[jerl77]

bring it back to pet wherehouse and tell them you want a refund !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ryangrieder]

bring it back to pet wherehouse and tell them you want a refund !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[duke62]

jerl you must have something to do with aqua hut.you speak so highly of them yet when i went i thought the fish were going to die while i was there with the amount of ich in there tank.and all you do is bash petswarehouse now that they are a mile away from that hole.im a big fan of putting my fish directly into my tank to cut the stress of the fish.so i will stare at a fish for several minutes before i purchase.and at aqua it took me litterally 10 seconds to see no fish were healthy.i have purchsed fish from the only 2 stores i will ever buy fish from on the island and everyone survived.never saw ich on any.4 years and counting on 4 of them.and i know reading this it will be taken the wrong way but im discussing it not arguing the point.as for curing ich many ways to do it its of preference.i chose GX and cleaner shrimp

 

[adamt]

I do not claim to be an expert on anything (exept maybe annoying my old lady), but I have always had good luck with my fish so im gonna put my two cents in. I do not qt my fish 1. because i dont have the space and 2. because of the increased stress.

The store I purchased all my fish from ran a low level of copper in all of the f/o systems. does that mean non of those fish carried ich? no. does that mean Ive never had an outbreak? no. I had a pair of wild caught true percs and no matter what i tried those fish constantly got ich. I went so far as to set up a medicated tank for them and watched them slowly wither away.

If you are not going to qt I would suggest the following: spend a few minutes looking at the particular fish you want to make sure its in good shape, ask the store owner if he/she is running any meds, ask if they use a uv sterilizer, ask how long theyve had that particular fish in stock, avoid wild caught fish when ever possible.

If you do have an outbreak there are some natural ways to deal with it, they are not always 100% effective but what is? Raising the temp a few degrees is helpful (i believe it speeds up the life cycle of the parasite, not sure though), adding a garlic supp. to frozen food is helpful, cleaner shrimp help out aswell.

I know alot of guys out there qt everything and that probably is best practice, but over the decade Ive been dealing with salt Ive found that if you're on top of maintenance (water changes etc.) and the fish is not ill in any other way a few ich spots here and there is nothing to go crazy over, and is certainly not worth breaking a tank down imo.

something like 99% of all fish bought in this hobby die within the first year of ownership. thats a horrible stat and im sure that the number is much lower for members of this forum. But everyone loses a fish here and there, I think that breaking down a tank for a few ich spots is probably going to do more harm than good. Im sure there is ich in my tank, but the fish all seem healthy and none of them have had any spots in the last year so i dont worry about it. So theres my advice, that and a buck will get you a cup of coffee!

 

[jerl77]

nothing to do with any pet store just stating my opinion things are getting hot around here so i am done
and tell your freind i cant wait to meet him at pw :fishhit:

jerl you must have something to do with aqua hut.you speak so highly of them yet when i went i thought the fish were going to die while i was there with the amount of ich in there tank.and all you do is bash petswarehouse now that they are a mile away from that hole.im a big fan of putting my fish directly into my tank to cut the stress of the fish.so i will stare at a fish for several minutes before i purchase.and at aqua it took me litterally 10 seconds to see no fish were healthy.i have purchsed fish from the only 2 stores i will ever buy fish from on the island and everyone survived.never saw ich on any.4 years and counting on 4 of them.and i know reading this it will be taken the wrong way but im discussing it not arguing the point.as for curing ich many ways to do it its of preference.i chose GX and cleaner shrimp

 

[Imbarrie]

+1 this is exactly what I do also.