Starting "Herbtana" today.

[junior ibanez]

The big 5 !!! five days of treatment skimmer still off, I don't see any more white dots and the only fish that does an occasional scrape againts the sand bed is the powder blue but he looks alot better from when I started the treatment he even had little bumps under the skin but they're gonne now. One fish I never noticed any white spots or even scraping against the rock is the juvenile emperor, for some reason I dont think he was affected.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

Nobody has "pristine" water. The few parameters you are testing for are only part of a bigger picture. There's no such thing as a closed system that's "pristine".

 

[junior ibanez]

Allrighty then bye bye now.

 

[junior ibanez]

Day 5 no changes in any of the animals didn't see the powder blue "scratch" (while I was sitting in front of the tank 30 mins or so) The water still good even though there's no skimmer ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,phosphate,calcium,magnesium, ph, alkalinity all good. The water is almost....... "prestine"

 

[cthoughts1]

Junior, the tank is looking good man. Glad the treatment is working out for you. Lets hope most of the ick starves to death and goes away. Maybe a few cleaner wrasses in there could help?

Oh and how come I wasn't invited for dinner? Is it cause I don't test my water? lol Hope all is good bro..

 

[junior ibanez]

Junior, the tank is looking good man. Glad the treatment is working out for you. Lets hope most of the ick starves to death and goes away. Maybe a few cleaner wrasses in there could help?

Oh and how come I wasn't invited for dinner? Is it cause I don't test my water? lol Hope all is good bro..

Eddie !!!! thank you bro, yea the tank is doing better, the powder blue is the one that still needs to do better but my main concern is not to loose anything, and trust me I learned from my mistake I'm setting up a QT I just never set it up cause I never had ich in the past 3 + yrs

 

[junior ibanez]

Day 6 of treatment but..... I'm catching the powder blue and he is going in my new QT. The QT is a Redsea Max 130 and that sucker is going to get a dose of "copper power" and the reason why I'm going with this brand is because it doesn't precipitate, so it remains active for many months. Also the reason why I decided to get him out of the DT is because I noticed he's the one holding the progress of the entire tank getting out of this mess, and anyways that will be the tank where any new fish will live before entering the DT.

This's a picture of the new QT.

 

[mbg75]

Even if u qt and treat the powder blue, most likely he will get it again when he goes back in the display tank.

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[junior ibanez]

Even if u qt and treat the powder blue, most likely he will get it again when he goes back in the display tank.

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The powder blue is going to be the in the QT until I know for sure the Ich went thru their life cycle on the DT, I don't agree with some people believes when they say Ich is always present in the tank.

 

[mbg75]

Even if u qt and treat the powder blue, most likely he will get it again when he goes back in the display tank.

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The powder blue is going to be the in the QT until I know for sure the Ich went thru their life cycle on the DT, I don't agree with some people believes when they say Ich is always present in the tank.

I understand what your saying, but if there are still fish in the dt, the ich life cycle just repeats.
Dt has to be fish free for 8 weeks minimum to end the life cycle.

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[junior ibanez]

I understand what your saying, but if there are still fish in the dt, the ich life cycle just repeats.
Dt has to be fish free for 8 weeks minimum to end the life cycle.

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That is the reason I'm using Herbtana so that the ich can't attach to a host and starve to death,and there for ending the cycle. (hopefully if Herbtana does the job)

 

[junior ibanez]

Day 7 just gave a dosage don't see anything different, one thing I did learned from using Herbtana is that it doesn't hurt corals or invertebrates, and if anything ricordeas loves that stuff the powder blue is in the QT I had to get up @ 1:00am and with all the lights off, and a LED flash light blind him to get him disoriented and I was able to catch him.

 

[reefnhard]

Use garlic juice Kent's Extreme with it

 

[junior ibanez]

Use garlic juice Kent's Extreme with it

For sure.

 

[KathyC]

Even if u qt and treat the powder blue, most likely he will get it again when he goes back in the display tank.

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The powder blue is going to be the in the QT until I know for sure the Ich went thru their life cycle on the DT, I don't agree with some people believes when they say Ich is always present in the tank.

Why don't you just take all of your fish out of the tank and QT them so that you will be sure to be free of ich.
Why continue to irritate/stress the heck out of them with a product like Herbtana?

Do you realize it can take up to 12 days before the new ich reattaches to another host fish (after you think you saw the last of it), and even thenm there is far from a guarantee that you will even be able to see it ..especially if it re-settles in the gills (very likely).

Are you really going to want to start counting again from that point?

 

[junior ibanez]

Why don't you just take all of your fish out of the tank and QT them so that you will be sure to be free of ich.
Why continue to irritate/stress the heck out of them with a product like Herbtana?

Do you realize it can take up to 12 days before the new ich reattaches to another host fish (after you think you saw the last of it), and even thenm there is far from a guarantee that you will even be able to see it ..especially if it re-settles in the gills (very likely).

Are you really going to want to start counting again from that point?

I have a 34 gallon QT if you talking about stress imagine a 7" naso tang, a 6"+ purple tang, a 5" + clown tang, a 5" yellow tang, a 4" juvenile emperor, a 4" sailfin tang, a 4"+ powder blue tang, 4 wrasses, 2 mated pairs clown fish, and finally 6 cardinals. All in a 34 galllon QT ? no I don't think so, and so far I haven't lost anything, and on top of that I would love to see you trapping all this fish on a 300 gallon tank which is 34" tall.

 

[nuch]

Herbtana, kick ich did'nt work for me. I lost alot of fish to the first time i got it(dam lfs). The second time was a miner outbreak, not sure if it was minimal or cause of what i did. The first time was so bad that i had to catch the surviving fish and QT them. This time i did not want to pull everything out and more coral and rock just to catch them so i put garlic extreme and vitiamin c in there food for 3 weeks and it was gone. i continued for another 2 weeks and all is well now. Agian not sure it's cause of what i did or it was a small outbreack. Now i do that every once in awhile just in case and it cant hurt.

 

[junior ibanez]

Herbtana, kick ich did'nt work for me. I lost alot of fish to the first time i got it(dam lfs). The second time was a miner outbreak, not sure if it was minimal or cause of what i did. The first time was so bad that i had to catch the surviving fish and QT them. This time i did not want to pull everything out and more coral and rock just to catch them so i put garlic extreme and vitiamin c in there food for 3 weeks and it was gone. i continued for another 2 weeks and all is well now. Agian not sure it's cause of what i did or it was a small outbreack. Now i do that every once in awhile just in case and it cant hurt.

Hey nuch, based on the research I did on Herbtana the results where positive and negative on different people, there was more positive end results which is the reason why I'm using it, and something must be right because not one single animal die so far.Which is telling me the tank is not cured yet but it's working.

 

[MatthewScars]

Why don't you just take all of your fish out of the tank and QT them so that you will be sure to be free of ich.

KathyC, stop making complete and perfect sense. Your idea is too logical and correct for the OP.

Please stop.

 

[MatthewScars]

I would love to see you trapping all this fish on a 300 gallon tank which is 34" tall.

Oh, he's short, so thats why he's so angry. Gotcha.