I’ve got a blue powder tang and I put it in my tank and I saw it had ick and now pretty much all my fish have ick will Ick-x cure the ick how long can they live with ick
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Well said. I would add the unavailable hydroxychloroquine. But without pictures I do not feel comfortable to rule out velvet.Kick ick, Ick X, IckBGon, will not fix anything.
I’d stick with the tried and true methods which are 3.
Copper based, hypo salinity, or two tank method.
Ick is considered to be a slower killer as fish death is counterproductive to its life cycle and its population.
Your DT goes without fish for 70ish days, this will ensure you eradicate them from your DT, by depriving them of the one thing they must have to survive....fish.
That is not true. There are many people that have had ICH in their tanks and maintain it perfectly fine without medication, or hospital tanks or QT. Ask @Paul B about this...they will die, and future fish as well, if you do anything other than fallow this tank, treat the fish, put back clean, and only insert fallowed hardscapes for the life of the reef. no doser, no food, no UV will help you skirt this. fish=die see the fish disease forum
on the top, under most important stickies for saving fish, what's listed is fallow and qt approaches. not bottled items or meds in tank, without running the full fallow companion mode.
Yeah, those pictures do look more like ICH, especially on the fins of the Puffer. Again, I would recommend posting in the Fish Disease forum and tagging @Humblefish @4FordFamily and the Reef Squad to get expert advise.My puffers have also been scratching themselves and my gang has been darting
But guaranteeing that the fish will die and future fish as well unless he does FALLOW and treat the fish is wrong. That's all I am saying...and that is all I will say. ;Happyif we read here, see how the Paul B method isn't used to save fish?
not saying it doesn't work on his tank, its just directly missing as a work source copy-able here.
because it takes a fifty year old reef to make his method, that could be a big deal in it
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everyone has an approach for disease control.
99.999999999% do not come from working fixes in work threads. they're simply a report of how someone currently does not have disease.
but taking tanks that already have disease and turning them around?
for what happens in real life, see this forum. it is hard to make disease go away by purposefully skipping fallow preps.
That could be ich, I see ich but the spots are small enough on some that velvet could be the culprit. If it grows (number of spots) in the next 2-4 days then it’s likely velvet as ich takes longer and has larger spots.My puffers have also been scratching themselves and my gang has been darting
Yes. Pleas get a copper test kit. The one that tests your copper. Ammonia testing is important. Please do not put anything porous is the hospital tank as it will absorb and lower copper concentration. Copper must be effective at all times during therapy or the clock restarts. There must be no fish in display left for 74 days. Tank and hospital tank should be more than 10 ft apart. If display water makes into hospital tank the clock on the hospital tank restarts. Good luck. Thanks for trusting the big boys (no I am not one of those big boys).Can I use copper safe that’s what I got
I have the api one should I add the 5ml each day till I get to 2ppm or add it over a couple of hoursYes. Pleas get a copper test kit. The one that tests your copper. Ammonia testing is important. Please do not put anything porous is the hospital tank as it will absorb and lower copper concentration. Copper must be effective at all times during therapy or the clock restarts. There must be no fish in display left for 74 days. Tank and hospital tank should be more than 10 ft apart. If display water makes into hospital tank the clock on the hospital tank restarts. Good luck. Thanks for trusting the big boys (no I am not one of those big boys).