Ich help for marine tank !

[CookieCrunch]

Hey all !

I have a 2ft cube tank technically a fowlr tank but with interverbates like snail, prawn, hermit and starfish . No corals at all .

Now, ich starts to appear and I do not know what to do ! 2 fishes disappeared and 1 died today ! Missing are a bi-colour angel and a firefish . And died today is a Threeband banner fish .

Need help with the ich on the fishes ! Water perimeters are good as the shrimps and hermits are molting ! Fishes are also eating fine with frozen brine with garlic juice .

Any solution that I can use to dose ? As I know copper would kill my interverbates and I do not want that !

Am thinking of catching all the fishes and then copper them, but then it means I have to take out the rocks before I could catch them as they all hide ! Hence catching them is a problem .

Please advice and let me know what other information to provide to ease in helping me ! Thanks much all !

Regards

Clarence

[asg]

Bro, what your water parameters and temp?

[asg]

If you can do copper, the best way is to do partial water change daily till the fish recover or mati... whichever happen first. Feeding them doctor g anti parasite caviar might help too.

[pcw]

I have had problems catching fish and what I did was to wait a few hours after 'lights out', then used a torchlight and a net to catch the fish. They are a lot less attentive/alert and easier to catch.

[FuEl]

2ft cube, small volume. Simple Solution just install a UV sterilizer. Use one that is big enough for 5-10x turnover tank volume per hour. Most people use units too small and complain they don't work.

[Angel Keeper]

2 feet cube you'll probably need 18w...

Angel Keeper

[shaohao85]

Doc shrimp .. stable water parameters .. stress free environment will do the job .. how long is ur cycling and wat system are u running ? Probably adding fishes too fast before your tank really cycled .. test water parameters weekly to ensure ur system is able to cope with the bioload ..

[Angel Keeper]

Nothing can kill ich except for copper, hyposalinity and level 1 sterilisation from UV... All other folklore of fish or shrimps getting rid of ich is nonsense... What they do is only nibble at dead skin, and maybe relieve a bit of 'whatever they're feeling'...

Angel Keeper

[shaohao85]

Nothing can kill ich except for copper, hyposalinity and level 1 sterilisation from UV... All other folklore of fish or shrimps getting rid of ich is nonsense... What they do is only nibble at dead skin, and maybe relieve a bit of 'whatever they're feeling'...

Angel Keeper

Yes your method is best at targeting to ich problem ... no doubts ..

[CookieCrunch]

I have check my perimeters, ammonia and nitrite is zero and nitrate is a little higher at 30 . Temperature is about 29degree as I do not use a chiller .

Is there by any chance all the fishes will get healthy again by itself and ich just die off ? Or I 100% have to catch them out, copper them and leave the tank fishes for 6 months ?

[CookieCrunch]

Thanks guys for your advises as well !

[Angel Keeper]

With luck, they may recover from ich and probably become immune to the strain... However, ich will still be present in the tank... So your safest bet if you hope for such a thing to happen, is never to add any fish ever again...

Angel Keeper

[CookieCrunch]

With luck, they may recover from ich and probably become immune to the strain... However, ich will still be present in the tank... So your safest bet if you hope for such a thing to happen, is never to add any fish ever again...

Angel Keeper

Ahhh . By not adding any fish again is like why not just quit the hobby . So guess I have to catch them all out and copper them and leave the tank without fishes for 6 months am I right ?

[Angel Keeper]

10 weeks fishless DT... All new fishes week have to go into QT for 4 weeks as well... I've never used copper before... I've only been using hyposalinity... With UV...

Angel Keeper

[CookieCrunch]

10 weeks fishless DT... All new fishes week have to go into QT for 4 weeks as well... I've never used copper before... I've only been using hyposalinity... With UV...

Angel Keeper

Thanks ! Happy to hear it's 10weeks ! Instead of 6 months ! Alright I guess I'll do either copper or what you have mentioned .

[joby553]

Bro, 10 weeks fishless. But how about inverts and corals? Will they hold any residue of the ich? Cos mine tank fishless now cos of ich too

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[Angel Keeper]

Corals and inverts are not affected by ich. They can remain in your DT.

Angel Keeper

[joby553]

Oh thanks angel

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[HappyReef]

Thanks ! Happy to hear it's 10weeks ! Instead of 6 months ! Alright I guess I'll do either copper or what you have mentioned .

If u copper, need to remove carbon if u using any.