serious problem! fish keep dying!

[tnb]

Just saw your post and it strikes a chord as I have the exact same experience when I started out last year. Almost give up but I stopped trying to put fish in. Put in a few easier corals and I let my tank run fish less for 1 month plus. Have fun with your fish!

[vidextreme]

It sounds like ich infestation. I accidentally introduced this to my established tank with a fish with small white dots and it has caused almost all fish death due to ich.

I had tried every solution I could find in the internet, isolation dip, copper dose, high and low salinity technique, dosing liquid garlic, dip pellets with garlic, etc...

The only solution that worked with my is feeding the fish that has garlic in it. After I did...magic, the infestation was under control over night! Though every now and then you can see one or two spot on some of my tank fish, but they don't last long. They say that ich once in your tank, they don't totally go away.

In my opinion, acclimating the fish is somewhat overrated. I only worried about temperature differences but that's it. Plus follow the 10-day-rule, don't name your fish within 10 days and grow attached to it, otherwise you'll be sad hahhaha.

[d0njuan]

make sure your tank is well cycled!

[solasido]

From what I observe ;

Due to the life cycle of marine ich; all LFS display tank must have ich already.

When shipment come; depending on the state of the ich cycle the live stock will get infected sooner or later. So the chance is quite high I would say that all fish from LFS display tank would have been infected with ich. Unless the LFS really isolate the display tank well and monitor sick fishes and clean tank with parasites.

It is up to the fish immune system to fight. Weaker fish will succumb to it and die.

The ways to get the tank ich free is to go fishless (any kind of fish) for 2 months. Or do not add any livestock and corals for 11 months consecutively. The ich will die itself. During this time, keep the fish stress free and fed well. When we see the white spots do not appear, it is because the fish is strong and the diseases do not have chance to manifest. But they are still there trying to live and multiply.

As for treatment, really only cooper and hypo salinity are proven way.

Actually, here it is apparent that marine ich in its evolution process is still imperfect and it has not reached the ideal stage yet.

The goal of a living being is to live as long as possible and to ensure continuity of the species through off-springs.

If now marine ich infected fish and causes the fish to die, this defeat the goal to live as long as possible because when the fish dies, the ich also dies. It is the same as suicide. It should have infected fish without causing fatality to it and that allows it to multiply.

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