Woke up this morning and I have ich in my tank. I cycled 3 weeks ago I did my test this morning amonias 0 nitrates 0 but my ph is at 8.0 my saltity is a 1.023 just looked at temperature and it is at 82. I have a 120 gallon saltwater tank with 2 catfish 4 turbo snails 1 rock beauty anglefish, 1 blue tang 1 yellow tang and 2 clowns(nemo) What should I do to treat this? Anything with the saltity or ph? Are should I just treat the ich? Thank you anyone for any help.
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thats alot of fish to already be added if your tank cycled 3 weeks ago. if you dont have a q tank, then go buy a couple of rubbermaids to isolate the fish from the main tank. i beleive that it takes about 6 weeks for the ich to die off in the main tank without any host. as far as treating the fish themselves, you can use freshwater dips, i used a copper based treatment once, and it cured the ich, but the fish only lived about 4 months after that. the fish i didnt use it on are still alive today, and that was about a 10 months ago. i know it doesnt help now but that is why you should invest in a q tank. i finally did and i dont have any problems with that kind of stuff. someone else will have to name the stuff, but i think there is a garlic treatment of some kind that people say works really well.
If you have ich then have you got a UV? i would not be without one . I dont use it all the time but invaluable as a backup. If a UV is not available then you can use such products as Octozin or OOdinex, Both are reef safe aas opposed to Cuprazin which is copper based and should NEVER be added to a reef setup.
Adding Garlic to your food is also a good way of fighting ich. A freshwater dip can be effective but only as a last resort IMO. lastly.. adding cleaner shrimps will help keep the irritation at bay but of course is no cure. Wilst ich/marinevelvet/whitespot have ways to be treated, none of these actually deal with the cause. These diseases usually occur through stress and this means the fish are stressed for some reason. The most likely candidates are the tangs as these are very easily stressed and prone catching ich. You might find the tangs are stressed due to the tank conditions. They like high oxygenated water with high water conditions. Lots of space and they do not tollerate most tangs in the tank with them.
Adding Garlic to your food is also a good way of fighting ich. A freshwater dip can be effective but only as a last resort IMO. lastly.. adding cleaner shrimps will help keep the irritation at bay but of course is no cure. Wilst ich/marinevelvet/whitespot have ways to be treated, none of these actually deal with the cause. These diseases usually occur through stress and this means the fish are stressed for some reason. The most likely candidates are the tangs as these are very easily stressed and prone catching ich. You might find the tangs are stressed due to the tank conditions. They like high oxygenated water with high water conditions. Lots of space and they do not tollerate most tangs in the tank with them.
I think you add too many fish too soon. How did you acclimate them and how did you add them timewise............like did you get two tangs on tue. and the rest three days later or did you add them all at once?? It sounds like your fish are acclimating bad and are ALL stressed out. Especially tangs they get ick about 80% of the time.
Most of the time when I get a new fish I acclimate in a quarantine or hospital tank and treat with copper and most of the time they break out in ich about two to three days later lasts three days and then they are fine.
Fish get stressed out....could you imagine going threw what they do before coming to your home tank...whew....anyway if you don't have somewhere to treat other than your show tank you have to be really carefull and watch all your elements..... I am figuring you are trying to do a reef, all your fish are reef safe....and don't add ANY coral untill all your water has been changed 100%. Last resort is freshwater dips.....this really stresses them out but does work.
Any way good luck!!
Most of the time when I get a new fish I acclimate in a quarantine or hospital tank and treat with copper and most of the time they break out in ich about two to three days later lasts three days and then they are fine.
Fish get stressed out....could you imagine going threw what they do before coming to your home tank...whew....anyway if you don't have somewhere to treat other than your show tank you have to be really carefull and watch all your elements..... I am figuring you are trying to do a reef, all your fish are reef safe....and don't add ANY coral untill all your water has been changed 100%. Last resort is freshwater dips.....this really stresses them out but does work.
Any way good luck!!