What you do ASAP....Tang probs

[koda_dad]

I just finished adding my "ick army"

I added 2 cleaner shrimp(damn they are small)
I also added a cleaner wrasse.

Lastly, I picked up some selcon, more garlic guard and some of enriched new life spectrum pellets...

Wish me luck...

 

[koda_dad]

Well here are some updated shots as of this afternoon. I am very happy with the progress to date.

The ick army was doing well until the cleaner wrasse had an unfortunate fate... the cleaner shrimp as of yet are proving useless.

I continue to pound the selcon and garlic to him.... I have also raised the tank 1 degree and am still feeding him often.

 

[BL1]

He's looking so much better, I hope he gets back to 100% for you.

 

[dcantucson]

He's better. Hope he continues in that direction. :x:

 

[Bifferwine]

BIG improvement! Great job.

 

[wontonflip]

Wow! Congrats! He looks SO much better! Glad things are getting better :D

 

[PRC]

Looks great KD..Keep pumping him with food. Looks like a different fish already. Fingers crossed for you.

 

[Sunshine]

Nice !! Glad he is doing so much better. Keep up the good work.

 

[pheasant29]

He looks much better! Keep it up.

 

[koda_dad]

I'm still in the round and round we go cycle of ick.... but overall things look better.

My purple never got it... the Chevron got in bad but seems to be recovering... the achilles well we all saw that. and none of the other fish got it.

Here are a few updated shots.
Chevron

Here is the Achilles

Compared to this when I first got him....

I guess what I am worried about is the cycle is just going round and round...

I am really starting to think the only way to get rid of this is to take out all the fish and QT in Hypo... thoughts?

 

[bjohanson1234]

That is the only way.

I would wait until they arent showing signs of it. Then QT and treat all your fish in the tank, even if they had never shown signs of ich, and leave the DT fishless for atleast 8 weeks. This will break the life cycle of the parasite since it needs to host a fish to go through it.

 

[ErinCahir]

At least he looks like he's eating now!

 

[dcantucson]

He looks great now compared to before. I would just focus on continuing to get them healthy and fat and not worrying about the ich.

 

[wontonflip]

+1 everyone....keep up with water changes, and keeping your parameters as perfect as possible.

 

[OhNoNemo]

That is the only way.

I would wait until they arent showing signs of it. Then QT and treat all your fish in the tank, even if they had never shown signs of ich, and leave the DT fishless for atleast 8 weeks. This will break the life cycle of the parasite since it needs to host a fish to go through it.

+1,this is what i did about a year and half ago....never had a single sign of ich since...my one trigger just got done recovering from a nasty little eye injury(not 100% sure how he got it),he didn't eat or interact for about a week....just hid in his cave....anyway,i guess what i'm saying is ,if ich was still in my tank ,i'm sure it would have attacked him in his weakend state....You can never really predict what will happen in your tank,but you can make sure it doesn't have ich ...your tang does look a lot better though,good job,and good luck:sfish: