Hello reef2reef,
I’ve been battling with what I believe to be ich for 5 months. I posted a thread in August for a diagnosis of a regal tang. I was told that it was most probably Ich, I finished my treatment using polyplab medic and then followed Jays advice on doing hypo salinity in the DT. During this I also had to treat the fish for internal parasites as the usual symptoms appeared: loss of weight, white stringy poo.
I then completed the hypo salinity process and about a week ago I finally finished bringing up the salinity over the course of a week.
About 4 days ago, I noticed what looked to be ich or something similar on a chromis but nothing else on any other fish, I used what treatment I had on hand which was NTlabs antibacterial, which states it can treat ich, but it obviously was not an ideal treatment but it was the only ich treatment I had on hand. The next day signs of ich showed up on a yellow tang, a sailfin tang and a fox face. I ordered a Milwaukee MA887 Salinity Digital Refractometer online with next day delivery with the hopes of doing hypo salinity again with the idea that my previous refractometer wasn’t accurate enough to do it. It gets delivered and they sent the wrong one out, which cannot be used to measure salinity and with it just being Christmas I have not yet got the correct one.
Today I noticed that all the fish were showing signs of ich, however they were still all eating with a strong appetite, until this evening where my vagabond butterflyfish has taken a turn for the worst. He is layed on the sand, hyperventilating and ignoring all interactions from me.
I am expecting to lose the butterflyfish, but I’m just asking for some general advice on what is the best thing to do, to either eradicate it or manage it.
The day previous to spotting the ich, so five days ago, I removed my Jebao uv steriliser as the plastic casing had began to break down and leach into the rest of the system, I just thought it was relevant because as soon as I removed the uv the ich has gone out of control.
Also, could this be something other than ich? I have attached some photos of the vagabond butterflyfish and the sailfin tang. The white specs are smaller than salt grains.
Tank stock:
1 Vagabond butterflyfish
1 Fox face rabbitfish
1 Regal tang
1 Yellow tang
1 Sailfin tang
2 orange spot gobies
1 Black clownfish
1 chromis
1 cleaner wrasse
I thank you for your help, Alex.
I’ve been battling with what I believe to be ich for 5 months. I posted a thread in August for a diagnosis of a regal tang. I was told that it was most probably Ich, I finished my treatment using polyplab medic and then followed Jays advice on doing hypo salinity in the DT. During this I also had to treat the fish for internal parasites as the usual symptoms appeared: loss of weight, white stringy poo.
I then completed the hypo salinity process and about a week ago I finally finished bringing up the salinity over the course of a week.
About 4 days ago, I noticed what looked to be ich or something similar on a chromis but nothing else on any other fish, I used what treatment I had on hand which was NTlabs antibacterial, which states it can treat ich, but it obviously was not an ideal treatment but it was the only ich treatment I had on hand. The next day signs of ich showed up on a yellow tang, a sailfin tang and a fox face. I ordered a Milwaukee MA887 Salinity Digital Refractometer online with next day delivery with the hopes of doing hypo salinity again with the idea that my previous refractometer wasn’t accurate enough to do it. It gets delivered and they sent the wrong one out, which cannot be used to measure salinity and with it just being Christmas I have not yet got the correct one.
Today I noticed that all the fish were showing signs of ich, however they were still all eating with a strong appetite, until this evening where my vagabond butterflyfish has taken a turn for the worst. He is layed on the sand, hyperventilating and ignoring all interactions from me.
I am expecting to lose the butterflyfish, but I’m just asking for some general advice on what is the best thing to do, to either eradicate it or manage it.
The day previous to spotting the ich, so five days ago, I removed my Jebao uv steriliser as the plastic casing had began to break down and leach into the rest of the system, I just thought it was relevant because as soon as I removed the uv the ich has gone out of control.
Also, could this be something other than ich? I have attached some photos of the vagabond butterflyfish and the sailfin tang. The white specs are smaller than salt grains.
Tank stock:
1 Vagabond butterflyfish
1 Fox face rabbitfish
1 Regal tang
1 Yellow tang
1 Sailfin tang
2 orange spot gobies
1 Black clownfish
1 chromis
1 cleaner wrasse
I thank you for your help, Alex.