white ich

[kksg2000]

is there any medication/product can be safely dosed in my display tank to cure ich? I do not want to set up a qt for ich treatment. any advise?

[Guest]

Do you have corals and invert in your tank?

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[kksg2000]

yes corals ... no inverts.

[kksg2000]

secondly, besides circulation pump, what is required for setting up a qt? how do i keep the water cool without chiller?

[[V]tEc]

Are u setting up QT or treatment tank?

[kksg2000]

Are u setting up QT or treatment tank?

treatment tank

[[V]tEc]

U may just add media, airstone. Or just a hob filter. Without lighting, temp should not go over 30 degree. I qt my powder tangs in this way without loss.

[kksg2000]

for some reasons .. the white spot on my clown disappeared overnight... maybe it was too stresssss...

[[V]tEc]

Read up on ich. They have a cycle.

[AngGuKueh]

go and but waterlife oztozin I qt all my angel when reached home the ich should dissapear in a week...sometime the angelfish tried to eat some of the particle from the tablet I dunno y but after that they start to eat pellet I throw hehe wonder its lucky or wat ?

[Achilles77]

This is probably one of the biggest problems that irk all of us. There is no dearth of literature on this subject and its worth a read online. If you have a big house and lots of $$ then you can get a QT and have your fish transferred whilst leaving the main tank fallow. It's a long process. You will have to leave your main tank fallow for 8 to 10 weeks to break the parasites cycle whilst treating the fish in the QT with the hypo salinity method. This is the best method. Many of us will never do this for reasons stated above. I would advise against meds for various reasons which you can read about online. The best thing is prevention but many of us will end up getting ich because we are always itching to put new stuff into the tank! So what to do?

1.Keep your tank clean with the usual water changes. If you think additional water changes need to be done because of the signs (smell, discoloration of water, algae blooms) then do it. It will help to ease stress on the fish.

2. Supplement the foods you feed the fish with garlic and vitamins. Do this everyday until you see improvement.

This is the method i have used and its a hassle free thing. 90 to 95% of your fish will recover.

**Don't buy your fish from dingy notorious LFSs. Pay a little extra and go the extra mile or two and buy fish which are healthy. If you are staying in the East then you have two options but both are quite a distance. Hint hint.