Ich

reefmaster719

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#1
Can you get ich by taking corals from a contaminated tank and putting them in a clean tank?
 

LittleCrabby101

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#2
I don't believe so. Ich is a fish parasite I believe. I would still dip your corals in Coral RX before placing them in a new tank.
 

scchase

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#3
Yes you can one of the life stages of ich lives of the substrate ie rocks sand, etc
 

ReefCheif

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#4
Yes, when the parasite is in its free swimming stage it can be transfered by the water. I would dip them corals.
 

reefmaster719

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Well a buddy wanted to give me some nice corals for free. Bunch of xenia frogspawns and hammers. 8+ heads each and I passed them up. Nervous about spreading ich into my tank.. :(
 
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reefmaster719;188645 said:
Well a buddy wanted to give me some nice corals for free. Bunch of xenia frogspawns and hammers. 8+ heads each and I passed them up. Nervous about spreading ich into my tank.. :(
do his fish show signs of ich ?

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reefmaster719

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They are snowflakes. The black clowns you can tell. The sailfin is scratching on the sand and rocks and his others have really bad white and black specks everywhere. Pretty bad shape. The sailfin scratches the most tho.
 

LittleCrabby101

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reefmaster719;188728 said:
They are snowflakes. The black clowns you can tell. The sailfin is scratching on the sand and rocks and his others have really bad white and black specks everywhere. Pretty bad shape. The sailfin scratches the most tho.
Is he medicating them yet?
 

LittleCrabby101

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#11
I would say he has a 50/50 chance doing a dip and then medicating. I've heard of people having success with it; I on the other hand did not. I think dipping the fish is stressful, but it did relieve the parasite for a short time.
 

Haulin Oates

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I have have successfully used Kordon Ich Attack twice now. It is reef safe. although the corals do not like it, I never lost a coral, and only lost one fish (a yellow tang that was in extremely bad shape).
 
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