How to prevent Ich Blue Teng

[FlameangelLover]

I’m picking up a blue Teng tomorrow and I understand they have a reputation for being sickly. Any tips on making sure the ich doesn’t come?

I will be doing a short observational QT

 

[Fish Fan]

#fishmedic

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I’m picking up a blue Teng tomorrow and I understand they have a reputation for being sickly. Any tips on making sure the ich doesn’t come?

I will be doing a short observational QT

Getting a good quality fish is vitally important, not all dealers offer that, you need to observe the fish on your own to ensure it is healthy:

Watch for these key issues:

•Signs of parasitism on ANY fish in the same water system as the one you wish to purchase (this includes buying invertebrates!).
•Cloudy appearance to the fish’s skin or eyes
•Major fin damage or missing scales
•Rapid gill respiration rate (greater than 100 to 120 bpm)
•Abnormal thinness in the fish’s abdomen or behind eyes
•Lethargy, hanging near the surface or excessive shyness
•ADR - Anything that just doesn’t look right to you could be an issue.
•Watch the fish feed before you acquire it.

Then, a proper quarantine process is best:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/current-quarantine-protocol.825055/

 

[winxp_man]

Read through Jays QT protocol follow it to the tee. In my honest opinion copper QT is simple and ensures fish has no ich if you ask me. It’s what I would do.

Have done many things to avoid ich and copper power at 2.25ppm minimum has proven to be to be the most effective. And all forum medics here will tell you the same if you want to ensure, as you stated, that no ich makes it to your DT.

If the fish is eating well get copper going for 30 days two weeks of prazi and observe for at least two weeks. You will not regret it. Especially seeing the fish in the tank disease free. Hope this helps.

 

[winxp_man]

I’m picking up a blue Teng tomorrow and I understand they have a reputation for being sickly. Any tips on making sure the ich doesn’t come?

I will be doing a short observational QT

A side note, I see observation as a time waste if the fish did not come from a super high end vendor. And let me say this, even then things can still take place. I have seen quite a few posts of fish even from QT vendors here on R2R, because they don’t have the ability to do the full 60 day protocol at times, bring in disease into tanks. I get why some say observation, but I will ask this. Can any one guarantee me 100% disease free (outside of super sterile captive breeding facilities), fish that for sure have no disease? If the answer is no, why take the risk of not starting QT right away, if the fish is eating and healthy in the moment, and get ahead of what could be an underlying issues?

To each their own, I have proven it over the past two years of QT’ing and diving deep into the disease world that it’s better to QT, for me anyways.

 

[FlameangelLover]

I’m picking up a blue Teng tomorrow and I understand they have a reputation for being sickly. Any tips on making sure the ich doesn’t come?

I will be doing a short observational QT

Getting a good quality fish is vitally important, not all dealers offer that, you need to observe the fish on your own to ensure it is healthy:

Watch for these key issues:

•Signs of parasitism on ANY fish in the same water system as the one you wish to purchase (this includes buying invertebrates!).
•Cloudy appearance to the fish’s skin or eyes
•Major fin damage or missing scales
•Rapid gill respiration rate (greater than 100 to 120 bpm)
•Abnormal thinness in the fish’s abdomen or behind eyes
•Lethargy, hanging near the surface or excessive shyness
•ADR - Anything that just doesn’t look right to you could be an issue.
•Watch the fish feed before you acquire it.

Then, a proper quarantine process is best:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/current-quarantine-protocol.825055/

Thank you I will follow this!

 

[FlameangelLover]

I’m picking up a blue Teng tomorrow and I understand they have a reputation for being sickly. Any tips on making sure the ich doesn’t come?

I will be doing a short observational QT

A side note, I see observation as a time waste if the fish did not come from a super high end vendor. And let me say this, even then things can still take place. I have seen quite a few posts of fish even from QT vendors here on R2R, because they don’t have the ability to do the full 60 day protocol at times, bring in disease into tanks. I get why some say observation, but I will ask this. Can any one guarantee me 100% disease free (outside of super sterile captive breeding facilities), fish that for sure have no disease? If the answer is no, why take the risk of not starting QT right away, if the fish is eating and healthy in the moment, and get ahead of what could be an underlying issues?

To each their own, I have proven it over the past two years of QT’ing and diving deep into the disease world that it’s better to QT, for me anyways.

Any tips for after he gets in the tank?