black ich

[thedogofwar]

need I say more? this really sux! both tangs have brownish black spots and a few white ones as well. I have to believe it is black ich and maybe a bit of marine ich as well. They must have been stressed from the move?

Well I ran out and bought a new 55 to quarantine them to.

anyone know where I can get some formallin around here? Maybe someone has seen it at the LFS's? I heard pharmacies may carry it as well.

or how about this Kordon rid ich+ ? I have a bottle of it but it also contains malachite green and I have no clue how to go about a bath when the directions are for prolonged treatment.

[Scuba Dog]

thedogofwar

If you cant fiond any Brandon let me know, I have a bottle of it at home..could send it to you...also pick up some cleaner shrimp they help...and way sorry to hear about that man....

[thedogofwar]

I just got a cleaner a week ago, They have both been frequenting the cleaning station tonight. However I just got done reading that these parasites are too small for a cleaner to do much with.

I need to find some garlic as well, I might just let them be for a couple days and see if they get any better. am I wrong in thinking you can use a whole garlic from the grocery store? Can't you just grind it up, I can't remember.

[Scuba Dog]

The garlic thing is new to me, i just know it stimulates apitite...more than likely the Q tank will be the answer...but since your reasearching the subject you kow more than me....

[thedogofwar]

garlic is suppossed to be good for the immune system. I was gonna start soaking their food once a week or so anyway but I hadn't started yet.

This is the hobby I hate to love, or is that love to hate? :)

[Scuba Dog]

Makes sence...pick up some selcone as well to soak the food in. spirolena flakes are also a good supliment and some clip on seaweed, that will help prevent HLE

[thedogofwar]

Theres also speculation that the garlic in their system makes them an "undesireable host". Who could blame the ich for jumping ship!

Well I ran to Kroger and picked up some garlic geltabs, the same as I saw used by another reefer. Made by Sundown, they are actually a dietary supplement. I already have selcon, I soak brine for the tubastrea. I got some of that veggie stuff that you use last week and my fish won't touch it.

I think I'll watch and see for a couple days. Give the PH of the new water time to stabalize anyway. I really understand the buffering of aragonite since I started using the ooltic sand.

I can't believe I had to go buy another tank, there go my new lights. Thats alright, I wasn't about to put them back into the 10 (that stress wouldn't help) and the 29 is needed on the system for the corals. I guess Tawnya can start her FO a little sooner than expected.

[Scuba Dog]

sounds like you know whats going on, well good luck with the FOWLR...oh you could put some crushed coral in the sump that would help with buffering the ph...

[schiller2300]

If you feel that the disease is parasitic, you might want to try a freshwater dip. It has been a long time since I have had ich but I used it on the regular white spotted ich quite succsessfully.

[thedogofwar]

just thought I would revive this to let everyone know that after 2 weeks of using garlic all signs dissapeared. it's been about 2 weeks since the last sign and the fish never had to leave the tank.

FWIW, I used Sundown garlic dietary supplement tablets I purchased from Kroger. It says the equivelant of 750 mg of fresh garlic.

[jerryc]

how did you feed it to them have read people add it to homemade fish Food.

[Scuba Dog]

Glad to hear that you have it under control.....now the cleaner shrimp should be able to keep it under wraps also....

[thedogofwar]

jerry, I just poked a hole in the gel cap and squireted it into a shotglass. Then I mixed in the flake that I feed them and let it soak it up. it will clump together after that so just suck it in and out of a baster a few times and then squirt it in the tank.

I was extremely pleased to take care of it w/o having to remove them.