Achilles Tang help

[TheRealDmorty217]

I believe this has already been mentioned. But - when one considers the risk of flukes, velvet, etc - not sure TTM is very helpful - but if it's Ich - it should be.

Mentioned on this forum 1000x but not in this thread. The thread has mostly turned into you and the other guy arguing about how feeding heavy with proper nutrition will or won’t work. TTM can be modified to work for velvet and flukes alike ie formalin dips with praziquantel… this is about an Achilles with ich I thought?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

No one uses TTM or chloroquine phosphate anymore? To the OP, it’s ich. Your established tank mates have had it but may not show symptoms. Treating the Achilles will do little for him if you plan on reintroducing him to your DT, since he will be reinfected. Only way to rid your DT of ich is to remove and treat all fish and leave it fish less for 72-76 days. Depending on tank temp. Some say higher temps of 82+ it’s 45 days. I have only ever done 76 days at 77 degrees. If it’s a FOWLR, you could dose CP providing you don’t have wrasse, hippo tangs too. There is a chart somewhere on here

TTM won’t work in this case because the whole tank would need to be run fallow, and TTM works faster than even the shortest fallow period. You’d return the fish after TTM and they’d just get sick again.

Chloroquine had some promise, I wrote an article about it, but later, I began running into mortality issues that I wasn’t expecting. In the end, I found that coppersafe is safer to use than chloroquine.

Here is a link to the article:
https://reefs.com/magazine/aquarium-fish-chloroquine-a-new-drug-for-treating-fish-diseases/