Is this ICH healing or something else????

CT Reefer · 01/22/2012, 03:27 PM

I have my young Purple tang in a 55 gallon QT along with 5 tank mates due to an outbreak of ICH. They are being treated with Cupramine and are about a 1 and 1/2 weeks into the treatment. I've kept only the lunar lights on, but today when I did some tank maintenance and turned the reef lights on I noticed the white ICH spots on the Tang now look brownish-red. Is this a sign of ICH healing or something else? Please help.

Photos of Iris the Purple tang:

snorvich · 01/22/2012, 05:27 PM

I am unable to tell from the pictures, but ich does not really "heal". How often and at what time do you test your level of cupramine? At what level are you keeping it?

crobattt · 01/22/2012, 06:24 PM

looks like an extreme case of HLLE.. but it shouldn't be so spread out?..

MrTuskfish · 01/23/2012, 04:36 PM

Just a guess- I think this is some sort of infection. If PTs weren't such tough fish, I'd expect this fish to be dead by now. Was he really covered with ich? Eating at all/ When did these symptoms first appear? In DT, or after copper? Whatever it is, it doesn't resemble the tell-tale pattern for HLLE.

CT Reefer · 01/23/2012, 05:15 PM

In looking at Steves reply, it may be that the copper level dropped below .5 overnight a couple of nights ago, and the ICH came back. I had to do a water change and I dosed each of the new water containers. I could have sworn it checked out all ok before I put the water it. Next morning, copper was down to about .25-.30. $#!T !!! This has been the biggest PITA...catching fish, setting up a QT and cycling it. All the water testing...I've got what looks like a chemistry lab now next to the QT! What a hard (and memorable) lesson in animal husbandry this has been.

Since I let the copper go below .5, I presume the 4 week clock starts all over again???

snorvich · 01/23/2012, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by CT Reefer

In looking at Steves reply, it may be that the copper level dropped below .5 overnight a couple of nights ago, and the ICH came back. I had to do a water change and I dosed each of the new water containers. I could have sworn it checked out all ok before I put the water it. Next morning, copper was down to about .25-.30. $#!T !!! This has been the biggest PITA...catching fish, setting up a QT and cycling it. All the water testing...I've got what looks like a chemistry lab now next to the QT! What a hard (and memorable) lesson in animal husbandry this has been.

Since I let the copper go below .5, I presume the 4 week clock starts all over again???

Yes, that was my supposition. Unfortunately, the clock restarts.

01/22/2012, 03:27 PM	#1
CT Reefer CTARS Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: In front of my tank Posts: 352	Is this ICH healing or something else???? I have my young Purple tang in a 55 gallon QT along with 5 tank mates due to an outbreak of ICH. They are being treated with Cupramine and are about a 1 and 1/2 weeks into the treatment. I've kept only the lunar lights on, but today when I did some tank maintenance and turned the reef lights on I noticed the white ICH spots on the Tang now look brownish-red. Is this a sign of ICH healing or something else? Please help. Photos of Iris the Purple tang: __________________ --------- 140 Gallon mixed reef. ACAN LEDs, Bubble King skimmer, GFO reactor, Tunze 7095 Controller w/turbelle pumps, Tunze Osmolator ATO w/kalk, 2 part doser (BRS), Digital Aquatics RKE. Current Tank Info: 140 gallon mixed reef, various grow out tanks Last edited by CT Reefer; 01/22/2012 at 03:51 PM. Reason: typos

01/22/2012, 05:27 PM	#2
snorvich Team RC member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Outlander Posts: 40,953 Blog Entries: 46	I am unable to tell from the pictures, but ich does not really "heal". How often and at what time do you test your level of cupramine? At what level are you keeping it? __________________ Warmest regards, ~Steve~

01/22/2012, 06:24 PM	#3
crobattt Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 786	looks like an extreme case of HLLE.. but it shouldn't be so spread out?.. __________________ Phil 4:13: I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

01/23/2012, 04:36 PM	#4
MrTuskfish Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Wild Blue Yonder Posts: 8,887	Just a guess- I think this is some sort of infection. If PTs weren't such tough fish, I'd expect this fish to be dead by now. Was he really covered with ich? Eating at all/ When did these symptoms first appear? In DT, or after copper? Whatever it is, it doesn't resemble the tell-tale pattern for HLLE. __________________ If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat. Steve Current Tank Info: 180, 2-240 FOWLRs, 240 reef

01/23/2012, 05:15 PM	#5
CT Reefer CTARS Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: In front of my tank Posts: 352	In looking at Steves reply, it may be that the copper level dropped below .5 overnight a couple of nights ago, and the ICH came back. I had to do a water change and I dosed each of the new water containers. I could have sworn it checked out all ok before I put the water it. Next morning, copper was down to about .25-.30. $#!T !!! This has been the biggest PITA...catching fish, setting up a QT and cycling it. All the water testing...I've got what looks like a chemistry lab now next to the QT! What a hard (and memorable) lesson in animal husbandry this has been. Since I let the copper go below .5, I presume the 4 week clock starts all over again??? __________________ --------- 140 Gallon mixed reef. ACAN LEDs, Bubble King skimmer, GFO reactor, Tunze 7095 Controller w/turbelle pumps, Tunze Osmolator ATO w/kalk, 2 part doser (BRS), Digital Aquatics RKE. Current Tank Info: 140 gallon mixed reef, various grow out tanks