It appears I have ich. One of my clowns died. The other one has it as well. All I have in theree is a b&w clown, a rbta, some xenias, a clam, some zoas and my janitors. I have a 3 gallon pico I can use as a hospital tank. What do I need to treat? What medicine do I use? How do I get it out of the display? Someone please help. I am only familiar with freshwater ich
livestock dying!!!
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Having the salinity that low is essential but don't use a swing arm to check salinity, use a refractometer that has been calibrated not too long ago.
No substrate, no LR. A sponge filter will help but I'd only use a new one and it would take a week or so to get a good bacteria colony. Don't bring ANYTHING except the fish over from the tank with ich. You can acclimate the clown slowly to the salinity but when lowering salinity I don't acclimate them at all. After the quarantine period is up, you will have to SLOWLY raise the salinity over a period of about a week.
Keep some PVC pieces in the quarantine tank so he can have some hiding places. Aerate the tank very well and raise the temp up to around 82F to speed up the life cycle of the ich parasite. Keep an eye on the ammonia and change half the water every day or more.
Good luck.
I hate ich.
No substrate, no LR. A sponge filter will help but I'd only use a new one and it would take a week or so to get a good bacteria colony. Don't bring ANYTHING except the fish over from the tank with ich. You can acclimate the clown slowly to the salinity but when lowering salinity I don't acclimate them at all. After the quarantine period is up, you will have to SLOWLY raise the salinity over a period of about a week.
Keep some PVC pieces in the quarantine tank so he can have some hiding places. Aerate the tank very well and raise the temp up to around 82F to speed up the life cycle of the ich parasite. Keep an eye on the ammonia and change half the water every day or more.
Good luck.
I hate ich.
Ok one of my new clowns has ich or clown fish disease, he looks like he has white zits. Moved into QT tank, raised temp, salinity at 1.010. How do we aerate the tank, put an air pump in there? What do I treat with, medicine wise.
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The parasite will normally not be able to handle the low salinity and will die.
The osmotic pressure will normally kill the swimming form of parasite which is
why you want to keep the salinity low for about 8 weeks. This will ensure that
the parasite has had plenty of time to go through several life cycles. Keeping
the main tank empty of fish for about 2 to 3 months will ensure that any parasites
that were in the tank could not find a host and will die.
The osmotic pressure will normally kill the swimming form of parasite which is
why you want to keep the salinity low for about 8 weeks. This will ensure that
the parasite has had plenty of time to go through several life cycles. Keeping
the main tank empty of fish for about 2 to 3 months will ensure that any parasites
that were in the tank could not find a host and will die.
My clown is all better. I did what gale said. At that low of salinity the parasite basically falls off the fish. The you raise the temp to speed up the life cycle past the hosting point. As far as aeration I used a powerfilter in the qt with no lid. Worked good. No I'm just waiting a month for the parasite to die in my display.