I've Got Some Nastys

[chief hill]

Ich. Well I've seen white spots on some of the fish. lost my cow fish yesterday and came home today to find my yellow eye Cole tang dead. Everything else seems ok. Eating well and active. My sailfin and yellow tang both have white spots as well buy they're better than they were 3 days ago. I'm running a 55 Watt uv light on the system to hopefully nuke theses things during their time while in the water column. I don't have a qt and won't break down the system to catch everything. So because of the mixed reef I can't go hypo, raise temp, or dose copper. I'll have to use the uv and hope for the best. Hoping the others are simply strong enough to fight it off.
YouTube video update of the tank and test with uv light.

Ich battle on 72 gallon bowfront:

 

[yveterinarian]

Good luck. I hope some of them make it for you.

 

[chief hill]

Good luck. I hope some of them make it for you.

Me too. Lol however if it happens that they don't then I'll just make sure not to add any fish for a couple months. But I'm a beliver that many fish carry the Paracite and it may depend on the fish whether or not it's effected by the ich. Some show signs and some don't it seems.

 

[sunnykita]

you could always try adding garlic to their food, might help them fight it off. Hope you don't have any more losses

 

[EricTMah]

Have you thought about a cleaner shrimp or cleaner wrasse?

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[scubasteve]

+2 hit it with bio warfare and i as well am a believer they are all carriers until stressed best of luck

 

[chief hill]

+2 hit it with bio warfare and i as well am a believer they are all carriers until stressed best of luck

Everyone is looking even better today. Garlic is added to their food as well. No cleaner shrimp in the tank but it's now time for one. Even though whether they do much for ich is in question. The white spots come after they've been infected so wrass or a shrimp may have no assistance. But it won't hurt to try. I find it funny that many reefers say they have gotten rid of it. However if the fish are somewhat immune or healthy enough not to become sick by the ich how do you actually know if they are your tank or not. This is one of them things that just may be in many of our tanks and we'll never see it. It floats freely in the oceans. I've seen ich come and go on a clown I used to have in the old biocube. It never seemed to bother it. Just as the other fish in my tank now show no signs but it's obviously in the tank.

 

[Kevin Tran]

my fish have ich forever. It come and go, come and go, i feed my fish 2-3 time a day with food that shoke in garlic gaurd. make sure there is enough seaweed in their diet

 

[scubasteve]

better yet buy two cleaners maybe 3 if they toss ya a deal