Need advices

[Aqua Monster]

Dear seniors

Pls advice how to treat white spots. I have already lost my powder brown tang and now noticed other fishes infected too. I am newbie and my setup is 3 months old. I have stock up fishes, snails, sea cucumber, zoas, leather and bubble corals.

 

 

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[CookieCrunch]

The only way:
Catch all the fishes out and quarantine.
Leave tank empty of all fishes for 6 weeks to deprive the ich from any host.
Sadly there’s no other way.

Good luck!

[Aqua Monster]

Thank you bro!! If I need to setup quarantine tank, have to setup with all equipment ?


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[CookieCrunch]

No a quarantine only needs a bare tank, with filter.
Use water from your old tank to treat.
So it’s best to setup a quarantine the same time you change water off your main

[DottyClown]

Your tank is only 3 months old, and you have so much livestock inside. Could be that tank has not fully cycled or your tank is struggling to maintain balance, thus stressing the fishes. Tangs are prone to Ich, suggest you not add any till tank is stable.

[Aqua Monster]

Mine is 4ft tank and diatom last for a month. I setup my tank in oct and waited a month for diatom but no respond since then I introduced 2 clown fish there I started with diatom.


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[Aqua Monster]

How should I test the tank water has been stable. I check water parameters every 2 week and it’s on control. Only the phosphate was high like 0.05 I think. Later I past the test results. Thank you for your valid advises.


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[R0B]

So sorry to hear about this. I am sure it feels bad, but with a little effort you can solve this. You need to do two main things. First you need to treat your pet fish. Capture and place all fish into a quarantine system. The ideal here is having two tanks/tubs to allow you to follow the tank transfer method. You can also treat the fish medically during each of the stages to improve their health. (For more info on quarantine checkout Humblefish's post on reef2reef or watch reefdudes latest livestream on youtube) Secondly you need to eradicate the ich from your display tank. As already suggested by the fellow reefers above you need to 'fallow' your tank (ie remove the fish). By removing the fish the parasite has no host, so will eventually die. The longer you leave the tank the better. At 3 weeks you will have a c.66% chance of eradicating the parasite, but if you leave it for 6 weeks this goes up to c.95% and c.98% at 9 weeks. The common practice recommend is 76 days. The good news is once you go through all this you will have all the skills and equipment to fight off any future issues with your fish. Good luck!

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[Aqua Monster]

Thank you very much for your concern n advices. Now looking for setting up quarantine tank.


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[Indeco]

Ich seldom will kill a fish unless is the powder series tangs so you don't have to worry very much.

Now you can choose to live with the ich or eliminate it.

Living with ich will required a bit more hard work by ensure your water is good condition and fishes are well fed with vitamins and omega rich foods.

If you want to eliminate then you will have to go fishless for 76 days to be safe. You can go fishless with ur invert and coral in your main tank. The only problem will be your quarantine tank can handle all your fish or not? Are you able to manage the bio load while treating them with copper. If not your fish will die faster compare to leaving them in the tank.

Nevertheless, I will still encourage you to setup the quarantine thank to handle diesease like velvet, fluke, brook, uronema which is way more deadly and hard to treat when reside in your main tank.

If you encountered all these dieaseas you will find ich is nothing much.