Ich needed help!!

[crownpairs]

What shall do??

[CestTresBon]

Since yours is Fowler I will suggest best way is copper. Tried and proven, but still depends on fishes immune system. If too weak already then most likely is hard. Hope it helps

Cheers

[Angel Keeper]

Otherwise use hyposalinity... If there are hundreds of spots on your fish, it may be too late for hypo... Then you'll need to use copper...

[crownpairs]

To clear away Ich In my tank also used copper??

[CestTresBon]

If tank fishless then leave it fishless for a month. If not then copper.

[CestTresBon]

Go read more about copper before doing anything silly. Its very dangerous

[solasido]

Bro,

From my experience since we all have issue, having a quarantine tank may be a luxury, with ich:

* Most important is stress free, full of appetite that keep their immune system top noch.

* Second, if tank has ich but fish are all healthy and able to fight, ich will slowly lost their power until we introduce new fish with ich that somehow causes rejuvenated ich outbreak.

According to research, after 11 months, tank with ich but never introduce new fish with ich, will cure itself, that is the ich parasites will die by itself.

My guess (but no proof) is that it is the case with their genetic diversity. When they give offsprings from the same pool of genes, over the time, it creates weak individuals.

So if tank has ich, but all fish are healthy and strong, do not add new fish. Let the tank run for about a year and the tank will be ich free.

* Fish that is weak and show heavy white spots, depending on how strong it is, give a fresh water bath and then put on hypo salinity, observe and try keep feeding it as often as possible. But remember to always change water to keep quality good. When it is strong and recover, slowly increase salinity, monitor and in the end put back to the tank. Remember to keep the fish stress free. If existing inhabitants bully the fish, got to immediately isolate it. Within a day or two the fish can die if kept bullied.

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[Anchorman]

Would suggest to switch off the chillier to raise the tank temperature to room temperature approx.29 ~30.C Use garlic dip to soak your fish food prior to feeding. it boost your fish's immunity. Will tend to lose some weaker fishes to ich but fishes that keep feeding will survive even with ich on the body and recover.

Hope it helps,

[tang_sohal]

The only 2 proven methods are hyposalinity and copper.. rest are ????

[Angel Keeper]

I wouldn't agree with anchorman... Raising the temperature wouldn't help as some believed that a temperature rise would speed up the process of ich... But it has been proven that it is not so... Unless you treat the whole tank, ich will always be around... If you're lucky and a few fish survive, it is only because they have grown stronger immunity and resistance to ich... But ich continues growing in the tank... And you can rest assured that any new additions will contract ich and the whole cycle starts again... If you have live rocks, I'd recommend removing the rocks and treat the whole tank if you're going hypo... Another proven method is by copper, but be very careful... High dose, fish dies... Low dose, ich survives... I've battled ich for as many times as I can remember and the safest is still going hypo... Treat every new addition for ich before putting it in DT...

[I love angel]

If you dose your tank with copper, it will be better to increase temperature to speed up the cycle and period, so that after a few weeks, the ich is almost gone. It speeds up the period of using copper and less stress to the fishes as less copper period....

[Welly]

If the infection on your fishes are not too severe, you may want to try hyposalinity as it works for me