my fist time with ich

[stormgate]

i picked up a blue-hippo tang this past weekend. this is the second fish in my tank (i'm new to the hobby). although, he is healthy and has been coming out to feed... he is slowly getting used to the tank. i did notice, however, that he is developing white spots on his skin. looks like fine salt. i've read this describes ich, and i think i've caught it relatively early. he isn't scraping against the rocks or anything.

i have kept freshwater fish, but never had to deal with ich before. i read that ich will eventually fall off the fish and once it has fallen off the fish and has multiplied it will die within 48 hours.

how should i treat my tank? should i issolate the tang so my clown doesn't get ich as well? will it affect my corals? whats the best way to treat it?

[Noobtosalty]

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[enjetek]

Go to the disease forum. Unless you feel like treating the tank with cupramine (only for fowlr) get the fish out and use hypo, cupramine, or tank transfer to rid yourself of this while all your fish are in the hospital tank. Let you tank run fallow (fishless) for at leeeeeassst 8-10 weeks and you should be ok. Also treat any new fish with either of the three methods before putting them into you display tank.

[stormgate]

thanks guys! should i move my corals as well? what about my inverts?

[Vince272992]

first u should never get a tang right away for your first fish since they are so pron to ich haha and to answer your questions u can use kordon natural ich attack to treat the tank it wont hurt corals and i find it to be a very good product, or u can do an quaritine and do hyposalinity or something else... but for a begginer i would not do fresh water dips or copper based meds since if u dont do it perfectly u can harm the fish even more so i would either do hyposalinty with NATURAL kordon ich attack, or just the NATURAL kordon ich attack haha

u can isolate the tang if u can catch him but if u use the natural kordon ich attack in ur tank it will keep it off the clown. But if u do try to isolte him be sure not to chase him around with the net for too long or he will get very stressed and probably more ill

ich does not affect corals so u will be fine there but if u use the natural kordon ich attack in ur main display tank make sure all your corals are healthy as it MIGHT make then close there polyups for a couple days but it will not kill them unless they are very unhealthy... when u used this product in my reef tank nothing happens to my corals and they were open and healthy every day i put the treatment in... it did not bother them

[Daimyo68]

Remove the fish to a QT tank, and treat them there. Leave your display fishless, as mentioned above, for 8 weeks. By doing this, the ich will have no host to feed on, and even if the life cycle is in the cyst stage, when they hatch, there will still be no host and they will die off, not being able to reproduce again.

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