Overcame by ich

Ccccz · February 18, 2014

Ok guys.

I surrender to ich. Added fish after fish and they just continue to get white spots and die 1 by 1. I have a 2 feet cube with sump and skimmer. I'm left with 1 scopas tang, 3 chromis, 1 blue tag, and 2 clowns. Rose tip and carpet anemone looks jaded. Multiple corals look ok. elegance, zoas, leather, torch, hammer, brain, button and cleaner shrimps seems unaffected. Nh4, no2 is ok. No3 at around 25ppm. Po4 very light blue according to salifert test kit. Salinity at 1.023. Temp at 27 degrees. What else should I test? I do wc with rodi 10% every 2 weeks. Sand bed in both dt and refugium with dsb looks dirty. Should I use vacuum to cleanit?

Soaking seaweed in garlic didn't help with the white spots.

I've been researching and hope to go fish less for 8 weeks to eradicate ich. Does that help? Should I add copper as treatment in the DT? With corals still there? What should I do?

[V]tEc · February 18, 2014

Ok guys.

I surrender to ich. Added fish after fish and they just continue to get white spots and die 1 by 1. I have a 2 feet cube with sump and skimmer. I'm left with 1 scopas tang, 3 chromis, 1 blue tag, and 2 clowns. Rose tip and carpet anemone looks jaded. Multiple corals look ok. elegance, zoas, leather, torch, hammer, brain, button and cleaner shrimps seems unaffected. Nh4, no2 is ok. No3 at around 25ppm. Po4 very light blue according to salifert test kit. Salinity at 1.023. Temp at 27 degrees. What else should I test? I do wc with rodi 10% every 2 weeks. Sand bed in both dt and refugium with dsb looks dirty. Should I use vacuum to cleanit?

Soaking seaweed in garlic didn't help with the white spots.

I've been researching and hope to go fish less for 8 weeks to eradicate ich. Does that help? Should I add copper as treatment in the DT? With corals still there? What should I do?

u can add copper to display tank if u intend to go fowlr. copper will kill every single thing in your tank except for fishes. ich is still in your tank, no matter what fish u add, they will still get ich n die.

for reef tank, simple method, do water change often, dose bacteria, wait till ich is "gone" then add in new fish. One at a time.

hardworking method, catch out every single fish, even fishes that are not affected by ich, leave the display tank fishless for at least 2 months. meantime set up a Q tank and treat your current fishes with hypo or copper.