No Sick fish, my experience...........

[fali]

Did you check your parameters? Its a long shot but double check everything like ammonia, ph, ect. It might help.

True story, my tank had a bad case of ick too. I tried reef safe ick medication but to no effect. All my fish had it. When i checked my PH, it was dangerously low. I immediately added baking soda, and ALL the ick dissapeared overnight. No lie. Not one white spot. Even my blue tang lost all its ick. Alot of people tell me no matter what you do there will always have ick living in everyone's tank but they will attack your fish if they are stessed or have a weak immunity to begin with.

Just my 2 dollars.

Does this make sense to anyone?

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

CB I was talking about getting flamed for the no QT part. That's all. You should try posting on Reef Sanctuary and 3 reef and saltwater fish dot com's to cover the additional markets.

 

[Paul B]

I immediately added baking soda, and ALL the ick dissapeared overnight. No lie. Not one white spot. Even my blue tang lost all its ick. Alot of people tell me no matter what you do there will always have ick living in everyone's tank but they will attack your fish if they are stessed or have a weak immunity to begin with.

Actually that happens all the time with ich. I doubt it has anything to do with baking soda but sometimes the ich paracites drop off the fish to multiply and for some reason do not re-infect the fish. It has happened in my tank a few times. There is no ich in my tank now and I did nothing to eliminate it. I know what the experts say about ich but I have had my tank running long before most of the experts were even born and there are a few things about ich that we are very ignorant about. Even though the ich cycle has been studied to death, there is a big ambigiuos part of that sly paracite that we don't know yet.

The dam thing does disappear on it's own for some reason and I wish I knew why.
Paul

 

[cali_reef]

Did you check your parameters? Its a long shot but double check everything like ammonia, ph, ect. It might help.

True story, my tank had a bad case of ick too. I tried reef safe ick medication but to no effect. All my fish had it. When i checked my PH, it was dangerously low. I immediately added baking soda, and ALL the ick dissapeared overnight. No lie. Not one white spot. Even my blue tang lost all its ick. Alot of people tell me no matter what you do there will always have ick living in everyone's tank but they will attack your fish if they are stessed or have a weak immunity to begin with.

Just my 2 dollars.

Does this make sense to anyone?

Not really since regular baking soda will not bring salt water ph to a desirable level. Making fast, large ph changes will only fourth stress the fish, making them more prone to ick's attack.

Stable water conditions(especially temperature) and water changes will help with the situation, most of the time my fish will survive as long as they continue to feed.

 

[Awibrandy]

I know what the experts say about ich but I have had my tank running long before most of the experts were even born

Good one Paul!!!

 

[Paul B]

Awibrandy, unfortunately that is true.
But there are a few things about ich that we really don't have down pat yet. For instance, everything in my tank should be dead by now but the pipefish are still spawning, the (ich magnet) hippo is healthier than ever, his scales look like velvet. The 10 or so gobies are hapilly annoying each other vieing for the females and in general all is well (with the fish anyway)
The tank was covered in paracites a few weeks ago and now there is not one to be seen. I personally would like to know why but it has always eluded me. Wouldn't it be nice to know why those paracites decided to be nice and leave my fish alone? They are obviousely still in there. I have read all the literature on ich and have been reading it since saltwater fish were invented :biglaugh:. Hopefully some day we will know the answer and we can use that information to save the lives of more of these beautiful creatures before we kill too many more of them.
It is nice and sunny outside now and it is a boating day so have a great day and take care.
Paul

 

[cb747]

Chief which other websites? I will gladly post in every site i can find. Everyone should be warned about this product before they spend the minimum of $50.00 only to lose there fish.
Paul ive given up trying to figure out what keeps your tank going LOL Have fun its a great day to be out on the water!

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

I would like to add some of my observation to the ich issue. It's not so much about stress to a fish but a "stress to the tank." Stress to a tank I mean changes in a tank such as temperature, water chemistry, and a lot of sudden movement to the sand and thus the secondary effects that arises. For eg, I have seen many fish introduced to a tank and get VERY STRESSED while they come out with NO ICH. But for the very same tank, when there is a major change to it such as re-arranging the aquascaping in a large scale that caused the sand bed to be disturbed, I see even the healthy fish get ich. It looks as if ich, like many other living organisms, will look for a change in the environment and start to reproduce in great quantity. Of course, the healthier fish can live thru it easily while the sick and weak ones may not.

I also want to add about Paul's idea of breeding mood. I am not sure if a breeding fish has more hormones or such to defeat the ich but at least I think a fish in breeding mood is usally much more energetic than usual. That indicates to me, a breeding fish is in great health.

Most fish breeders also realized that a change of water chemistry and environment such as a tank swap would increase the possibility of giving birth or getting the fish into the mood. That coincide with the hyprothesis that ich like to reproduce in changing environments.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

nano-reef.com
Reefsanctuary.com
3reef.com
rareclownfish.com
marindepot.com's forums
saltwaterfish.com's forums.
those are a few off the top of my head.

 

[cb747]

Oh boy im going to be busy LOL

 

[grknyer]

Thanks for the web addresses. Good looking out