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Set up a hospital tank today for my fish ich in my 120 gallon reef - starting Ich-x treatment....gonna be a long right weeks with no fish!
I used garlic chop very small mix with food or just add in tank. I put garlic in my tank once a week to keep them healthy. Just a tip my LFS told me
i have 60 gallon main tank and itch is all over in my tank, and i dnt have qt.. is it ok to do hyposalinity in my main tank?? i dnt have inverts and corals.. only sand and live and dead rocks and 8 fishes and 3 fish has itch already
garlic has never been proven to work in a marine tank BUT it has been scientifically proven to cause liver damage to fish over time. i stopped using it after the study i readI used garlic chop very small mix with food or just add in tank. I put garlic in my tank once a week to keep them healthy. Just a tip my LFS told me
Cleaner Wrasses DO NOT eat ICH . there was a scientific study i read where the stomach of a cleaner wrasse was cut open after being in a tank full of infected fish during the phase where ich is showing. they only found copepods and a few other organisms in their stomachs but NO parasites. they did this test on captive cleaner wrasses and wild ones. still, these parasites were NOT a part of their diet. if anything cleaner wrasses annoy a diseased fishIn my opinion and experience, tangs are much vulnerable to ich due to the absence of a slime coat if I'm not mistaken its always good to qt tangs and have cleaner wrasse PR shrimp in the system for good measure this has always worked for me
garlic has never been proven to work in a marine tank BUT it has been scientifically proven to cause liver damage to fish over time. i stopped using it after the study i read
Cleaner Wrasses DO NOT eat ICH . there was a scientific study i read where the stomach of a cleaner wrasse was cut open after being in a tank full of infected fish during the phase where ich is showing. they only found copepods and a few other organisms in their stomachs but NO parasites. they did this test on captive cleaner wrasses and wild ones. still, these parasites were NOT a part of their diet. if anything cleaner wrasses annoy a diseased fish
I can honestly admit that having cleaner shrimps do offer a bit of comfort for fish suffering from ich. fish get in line for a bit of relief it seems.+1 to all of the above
Cleaner wrasses/shrimp will sometimes eat dead skin tissue; which often are the "exit wounds" of attacking ich trophonts. That close correlation is probably why many mistakenly believe they are witnessing their cleaner "eat" the ich.
I installed a heater in my nano and the temp went from 77-80 because it was miscalibrated. I readjusted it but that afternoon my clownfish had white spots on it and it died that night. Can a temp increase like this cause death so quickly? Or was there probably something else going on before then? I'm keeping the tank fallow for a while until I get this figured out.