Ich and UV question

[me & my baby]

Well my 3 fish in QT have been doing fine for almost 3 weeks . Yesterday I noticed my 2 clown had what looked like salt on them . Today when I got home there was more . I have all the fish a freshwater dip and they all looked clean when I out the back in the tank . I am trying the Hydrogen Peroxide dosing and it say it works better with UV . The only UV I have access to is a 54w but my QT tank is only 20g . I am worried if I try the UV it will heat my water up to much . What do you think

 

[vetteguy53081]

Well my 3 fish in QT have been doing fine for almost 3 weeks . Yesterday I noticed my 2 clown had what looked like salt on them . Today when I got home there was more . I have all the fish a freshwater dip and they all looked clean when I out the back in the tank . I am trying the Hydrogen Peroxide dosing and it say it works better with UV . The only UV I have access to is a 54w but my QT tank is only 20g . I am worried if I try the UV it will heat my water up to much . What do you think

Peroxide is an oxidizer and is not your answer. UV will address what passes through the channel and will not address what is pre-existing. Please post pics of clowns under bright white light intensity, no blue but if ich, best recourse is coppersafe at 2.25ppm OR hyposalinity in which for these fish, I prefer coppersafe at 2.25ppm

 

[me & my baby]

I have been reading up on people using peroxide via dosing with good success. I will get pictures tomorrow, I also have a blue eye bristle tooth tang in there with them . So no hyper just copper

 

[W31Olds]

That UV light is too big and will heat up your water.

 

[BeanAnimal]

I have been reading up on people using peroxide via dosing with good success. I will get pictures tomorrow, I also have a blue eye bristle tooth tang in there with them . So no hyper just copper

Hydrogen Peroxide is not an effective treatment. It may reduce some free swimming specimens, but will not eradicate the infection. UV will not be effective in most cases either.

 

[winxp_man]

I have been reading up on people using peroxide via dosing with good success. I will get pictures tomorrow, I also have a blue eye bristle tooth tang in there with them . So no hyper just copper

What vette posted is what you must do for 30 days. Dont mess around with anything else. Have tried many things and still end up back at what medics here have as a protocol. Copper power or copper safe at a min of 2.25ppm and a max of 2.50. Use a Hanna HR copper checker. Do this and your tank will thank you in the long run.

UV only takes care of free swimmers, peroxide really is super hit and miss. And you need to run it along side a skimmer, UV light and carbon reactor. And even at that, you are putting things in your tank that will absorb into your rocks and sand. Not worth it.

Tired peroxide and did not work. It cut down the infection of ich some but did not eradicate the disgusting disease! Overall peroxide of any sort will not help against ich. QT with copper for 30 days will keep the fish ich free for sure! You might read others doing 2 weeks. Protocol here is 30 days. And it’s what I would recommend.

 

[christinna77]

I agree with everyone here. These are ich management methods practiced in DT because they're reef safe and can control ich to some degree if full quarantine isn't possible, but you've got the fish in QT already. There's no reason to not run copper.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Well my 3 fish in QT have been doing fine for almost 3 weeks . Yesterday I noticed my 2 clown had what looked like salt on them . Today when I got home there was more . I have all the fish a freshwater dip and they all looked clean when I out the back in the tank . I am trying the Hydrogen Peroxide dosing and it say it works better with UV . The only UV I have access to is a 54w but my QT tank is only 20g . I am worried if I try the UV it will heat my water up to much . What do you think

Just to add - peroxide dosing is a LOT more complicated than some web sites would have you think. When peroxide is added to an aquarium, some of it reacts with organics and is decomposed (making it unusable for disease control). However, with additional amounts of peroxide being added, the amount of organics is "eaten up". Eventually, you can end up with an overdose. You need to use low dose peroxide test strips to monitor this. Anything else is just guessing.

Do not combine UV and peroxide - the UV will break down the peroxide into just oxygen and water. You may see some web sites that tell you to run both, and that "the extra oxygen will cure your fish". This of course is ridiculous....

Your best option would be coppersafe at 2.25 ppm for 30 days tested with a Hanna HR tester. If that isn't feasible (cost of the Hanna checker?), then hyposalinity would be the second best option:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/hyposalinity.880546/