Shark Egg: Round Two
- Thread starter charles-n-charge
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Haha sorry. Busy Easter.
I'll try to do a photo/video update later. For now I'll just say what's up.
First off, as some of you may know, I'm currently in a battle with ich that has taken hold of my entire system. So far it has claimed the life of Tweeter, my porcupine puffer.
It has infected every fish in the system, and I am now doing a copper treatment on the entire system, and am trying to keep the fish on a garlicky diet.
I have removed all inverts, live rock, corals, and the ray from the system and am keeping them in a 55 gallon quarantine tank in my living room.
Now as if that isn't bad enough, I have a shark that is hatching in the mist of all of this, meaning there isn't really a safe home from him to go to just yet. So I'll have to keep him in the 10 gallon for as long as I can, and then hopefully the system will be healthy again before putting him in the 55 QT is necessary.
So if anyone knows what they're talking about when it comes to marine ich, I'm open to advice. These past couple days have been my most stressful in my entire time of fish-keeping. I'm currently on my second day of no sleep due to this whole thing, with a few more days of zero sleep to come; trying to catch the shark hatching and monitoring all the fish.
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if there is ich in the display, the only way to eliminate the ich entirely is to take ALL of the fish out of the display and let it sit with no fish for several weeks. The ich will die out with no host. Then treat the fish in the quarantine.
There's no way to catch the fish in the display, so I removed everything that would be affected by a copper treatment and put it all in a QT, and am treating the display itself
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This is true.
The ich parasites dont infect the corals. Just the fish. So you need to round up each and every fish quarantine them and treat them. The main treatments ive found work 100% of the time are copper or hypersalinty. I prefer copper. Seems to work faster overall and provide relief at a sooner speed. the key thing is getting it to the proper concentration amounts and keeping it there. Ive always had good results with the copper from seachem
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Here's what I'm using.
I added two of the bottles, which is roughly 200 gallons worth, and I'm saving the third to add later if the first two don't do the job.
The whole system is 375 gallons though, so I don't know if 50% medication will do it or not.
I've also removed carbon from the system, turned off the protein skimmer, and still have my UV running.
I'm already dedicated to treating the whole system, and leaving the inverts and such quarantined. Flipping things around at this point is out of the question
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Oh geez, I had to QT a Valentini, clown, and 6 line with hypo to get them over ich in a 20 long, and I thought that was hard enough! Good luck with it, also I would pick up a bottle of selcon, it has AMAZING nutritional value which helps boost their immune system.
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The method that worked best for me (which most think is ineffective) was using garlic. What I did was soak frozen foods in garlic and selcon for 10 minutes, added garlic extreme directly to the water once a day, put a UV sterilizer on the tank and did water changes every other day. For the water changes I took about 1/4 of the display tanks water. Since I was concerned with stressing the fish I left a small pump in the tank so I was able to just plug it in and and new water to my sump. It took about 3 days to notice any improvement and within a week all traces of ich were gone. Before I pulled the pump I did a 50% water change and I continue to use the garlic. It's been over a year and I haven't seen any since. Good luck
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