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How do I treat my fish/aquarium for ich?
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I also need advice. when I look online there are so many different opinions. I have a blue hippo tang with it currently. I have had a 90 gallon system for approximately 3 1/2 years with no issues. The tang that i have I got about a month ago so I did not know if I brought it into my system now or the hippo tang is still stressed and susceptible to it right now. I do not have a UV sterilizer or a cleaner wrase I do have a cleaner shrimp. Any advice appreciated
Best way is to remove all the fish from the display tank and put them in a QT tank. Treat them there. Lots of treatments that can be used. But, if you can't do that you can treat in the display.
Get some Metro and Focus from a LFS. Thaw some frozend food (several cubes) in garlic (Garlic Guard is good) then mix in the metro and focus. You want it to be like a paste. Make enough to last several weeks. Place it in a ziplock and flatten it out to a thin sheet and then freeze it. Break off just enough for the fish to consume quickly and thaw but not in water. Once it has thawed dump it in the tank. Feed several times a day or as often as they will eat without leaving a bunch of waste.
That is a good solution if it is in fact ich. If it is Brooklynella that will not work and you cant treat them in the display without killing corals and inverts.
Get some Metro and Focus from a LFS. Thaw some frozend food (several cubes) in garlic (Garlic Guard is good) then mix in the metro and focus. You want it to be like a paste. Make enough to last several weeks. Place it in a ziplock and flatten it out to a thin sheet and then freeze it. Break off just enough for the fish to consume quickly and thaw but not in water. Once it has thawed dump it in the tank. Feed several times a day or as often as they will eat without leaving a bunch of waste.
That is a good solution if it is in fact ich. If it is Brooklynella that will not work and you cant treat them in the display without killing corals and inverts.
The life cycle of ich is about 4 weeks. Which means that fish should remain in QT no less than that but really should be 5 or 6 weeks. As for the fallow tank, it should be at the minimum 6 weeks. Say a fish has the parasite and it lays it's eggs the day you take all the fish out of the tank. It takes 4 weeks for the eggs to incubate and hatch. Then, it takes a good 2 weeks for the ich to starve and die off. That is where the 6 weeks comes in but a little longer wouldn't hurt at all.
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