What Is The Best Way To Treat ICH / White Spots?

[JuanSalgado]

My Purple Tang Haves Ich. Please Help Me With Any Advice You Have & What Is The Best Medication.

 

[jrjackson]

hyposalinity is the only thing that has ever worked for me

 

[marrone]

Hypo or Copper will both work. If you're going to treat with Copper you need to make sure you have good test kit, if you're going to treat with Hypo you need to make sure you have a refractormete to measure the SG correctly. See the below links for more info:

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/pests
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/pests/99516-ich.html

 

[edd]

if you have a reef you need to remove all fish to a hospital tank for treatment.

 

[d5332]

20 gallon tank
hang on filter no carbon
heater
cover for tank
PVC pieces for fish hiding places
cupramine
follow Cupramine instructions, 36 drops on day one, 36 drop on day two.

Dont feed QT tank too much, tiny bits

If you feel the need to change QT water, perform 100% water change, rinse all other objects, add new cupramine to the new water.

Leave fish in QT for about 5 weeks, do it this weekend or you will be posting that your fish died.

 

[d5332]

Tsnk has to be filled to the brace, full 20 gallons, riplenish evap

 

[albano]

Tsnk has to be filled to the brace, full 20 gallons, riplenish evap

Always a good idea to get actual inside measurements to calculate actual volume... especially when dealing with meds!

 

[FlyPenFly]

With that many tangs, moving them all to a 20 gallon is going to be a disaster for how long you need to treat the full life cycle.

As long as your tank is big enough, I would say go to Petland Discounts in Manhattan, buy $40 in live blackworms, rinse them thoroughly, feed small amounts 5-6 times a day long with Nori. You need to change the water out on the worms daily and only use about 2 inches in water.

If you relieve stress on the fish from overcrowding and swim room, feed them a good diet, it'll usually kick ich unless they're too far gone.

 

[JuanSalgado]

Thank you i am getting all the items now.

 

[d5332]

I've kept up to 5 tangs in a 20 and up to 8 fish in QT in the same 20, its not home, it's QT.

The water needs to be changed twice per week but it works.

JuanSalgado, if this is your first run at ICH do not play with conventional methods, leave hypo salinity, special foods and ich ridding bed time stories for when you have time to research them.

Get Cupramine, if you cant find it tonight I have 9 bottles of it, let me know.

The cupramine bottle cap is your dropper. Do not use medicine droppers, use the bottle itself.

Do not pour your drops directly into the QT tank if you screw up you will have to start over.

Go to the kitchen, find the ugliest table spoon you have and count your drops on to that spoon then pour the contents of the spoon into the QT tank and rinse the spoon in the tank water itself.

If you get your count of drops onto the spoon wrong throw out what is on the spoon and start over. If you get the count I indicated wrong it can lead to fish loss.

Do I know what I am talking about yes I do. in 2012 and early 2013 had to setup QT tanks 4 times and did not lose a single fish and this was my method.

Lastly, put a lid on the tank, ICH will drive the fish nuts and they will jump out when frustration sets in, that's how I lost the Hippo Tang I raised, it jumped out over night because I left a 2 inch opening.

Since her the hippo's death no more ICH, that Hippo would get ICH if I sneezed to close to that tank.

 

[marrone]

You must have some very small tangs, as I would have trouble keeping more than two of my tangs in a 20gal tank, lets alone a number of them. Then again some of my tangs are pretty large. In the end it's better to go out and get a 50gal Rubbermaid container, this will give you more room and you can use it for storage when you're not using it as a QT or HT.

Bottom line, you need to get a test kit, you just can't go by the recommended drops to know that you're treating at the correct level. Also, there are better copper out there to use, I like using Copper Power myself.

 

[JuanSalgado]

Yes, I'm going to need that. I PM you.

 

[FlyPenFly]

You're just going to get ich again when you add the fish back into the system if you go with a 20g QT. Also unless your tangs are babies, they're going to terrorize each other.

Your best bet is to get them healthy as possible in the system but only if they're not already too far gone.

 

[duromega]

that hippo would get ich if i sneezed to close to that tank

lol

 

[noahlito]

You're just going to get ich again when you add the fish back into the system if you go with a 20g QT. Also unless your tangs are babies, they're going to terrorize each other.

Your best bet is to get them healthy as possible in the system but only if they're not already too far gone.

I agree. Ich is an opportunistic infection that exist in the tank. Its only going to get the fish that are the most stressed out. I would let some fish go and feed nori and garlic heavy with water changes from over feeding. Trying to move fish back and forth to me is not solving the problem of potential over crowding and stress. Good luck!

 

[edd]

You must have some very small tangs, as I would have trouble keeping more than two of my tangs in a 20gal tank, lets alone a number of them. Then again some of my tangs are pretty large. In the end it's better to go out and get a 50gal Rubbermaid container, this will give you more room and you can use it for storage when you're not using it as a QT or HT.

Bottom line, you need to get a test kit, you just can't go by the recommended drops to know that you're treating at the correct level. Also, there are better copper out there to use, I like using Copper Power myself.

+1 on 50g tote then you can leave them in their until the ich runs its course. that way they don't get reinfected.
you will need a copper test kit as mentioned.