Never had it in saltwater aquarium but have a couple of times in my planted aquarium, was easy to get rid of by raising temp to 83 degrees.
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If you want to make sure you get one with parasites, ordering one online from live aquaria (non divers den) would be a good bet! ;WootI am not sure that Achilles tang would make it from Carmel Indiana.
But if you think it would survive the trip, I will take it. If it was quarantined, it may not live in my tank because my fish, and me frown on that.
I have never gotten any livestock on line.
Never had it in saltwater aquarium but have a couple of times in my planted aquarium, was easy to get rid of by raising temp to 83 degrees.
I have only ever run nano tanks, and the regimen I have found to be successful in avoiding introducing ich is the following:
1. Never ever transfer any amount of outside water to your tank. This means scooping fish and coral out of the bag into a quarantine of your own water. Ich are mostly in the water, if they are not visually in the fish (with white or dark specs), depending on what stage of the life cycle they are. This is the most important step, even if you don't want to do the following steps.
2. Quarantine fish for a minimum of 3 days if you can. And observe for development of any lesions.
The advice I've received is to never prophylactically treat fish with prazi or copper-based treatments unless they are truly infected, as this causes a high amount of stress on them and increases the likelihood they will die/get sick of something else. However, like I said, I've only been doing nano tanks. If I had a $5000 system, I'd be much more risk averse and taking extra steps.
This is not the same with Cryptocaryon (what everyone is calling Ich)
Ichthyopthirius multifiliis is the freshwater parasite with a drastically different life cycle.
Cryptocaryon irritans is the marine parasite.
Yes, don't confuse Freshwater Whitespot (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (hope I've spelled that right)) or "Ich", with Marine whitespot (Cryptocaryon irritans).
For this reason, I dislike the nickname (mainly from the US) of calling marine whitespot, "Ich". Crypto would be a better short name.
Raising the temperature in a marine tank with any ciliate parasite would potentially worsen the situation by stressing the fish and reducing immuno-response and accelerating the lifecycle of the parasite, including infection rates.
Nooo of course not Paul, only blue ring octopus, stonefish and cone shells. The ones you mention I think maybe poisonous."At" old friend, do you still pick up Lionfish, rabbitfish, firecoral, Portugese Man O War, and moray eels by hand?