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02-22-2007, 07:11 AM
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Help, help HELP!! EMERGENCY!!
My new tang has ICH!!! I need to get her to the hospital tank! How do I get her out? She is FAST!!
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02-22-2007, 07:21 AM
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and assuming I catch her, what is the best medicine? And I have a few pieces of live rock in the hospital. I will leave in permanently, is that a problem
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02-22-2007, 07:27 AM
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Can I use bifuran+?
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02-22-2007, 07:59 AM
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OK I feel like I am talking to myself at this point, but ....ANYHOOO, I got her to the hospital, but now the only meds I have are that bifuran. Anybody know about that?
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02-22-2007, 08:03 AM
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If she is healthy, and still eating, she will get past the ich on her own.
If the QT tank is clean (no chemicals used before) and the fish is healthy, I would pick up a cleaner shrimp, or two. Let them do what they do best.
Ich can't get a foothold on a healthy fish. Also, ich will always be in your system now until it starves (full 2-3 weeks, I think). For it to starve, there needs to be no hosts.
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02-22-2007, 08:09 AM
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OK here comes the conflicting information! Thanks, that is option #1.
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02-22-2007, 08:20 AM
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J T is right. Ich is in the system. Healthy fish will fight it off with no problem.
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02-22-2007, 08:21 AM
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ok that is 2 for option #1
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02-22-2007, 08:23 AM
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You can add garlic to their food and that will help boost their immune system. Ensuring Tangs get plenty of vege type foods really helps them. Nori is best from what I have heard. Get it in the oriental food section at the supermarket.
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02-22-2007, 08:27 AM
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she has been eating her nori and everyone has been perfectly healthy for a good long time. Why didn't I QUARANTINE?!!
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02-22-2007, 08:32 AM
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You'll finds that ich will appear from time to time. My tangs get it every once in a while but they are healthy and it has never lasted. I've had it pop up twice in the last year and a half. Never got bad enough to do anything about. My purple tang had about a dozen spots and when they disappeared that was it. Not sure what stressed them. |
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02-22-2007, 08:33 AM
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I have also lost whole tanks full of fish to ich! I see it as a force to be reckoned with!
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02-22-2007, 08:35 AM
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I've had more losses with freshwater ich. Maybe the SW fish I have had are just healthier.
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02-22-2007, 08:37 AM
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I kept asking the guy at the fish store, isn't that a LITTE something I see on her fin? And I had 2 different people check her. Both said she looked fine! (surprise surprise). They tested my water, said it was perfect, and all my other fish have been super healthy. I feel like going and raising H-E- double toothpicks!
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02-22-2007, 08:44 AM
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settle down, all tangs get ich, I think they cause it
like rats cause cancer in laboratories
the tang will recover on it's own in a healthy system
the cleaner shrimp will help to
my scopas had a huge case of ich about 1 week after I added my sailfin
I noticed it as I was leaving for the weekend.
I was expecting at least 2 dead fish when I returned,
but all I found was a bunch of hungry fish with no signs of ich
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