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[Black Clover]

My 55 gallon salt water DT has Ich!?!
I have lost 3 fish in one week.

I am convinced that the only thing that will cure Ich is to treat ALL my fish with copper in a QT. I cannot treat the DT as I have lots of invertebrates that will die from the the copper.

I believe I have to starve the parasites by removing fish and treating them in my 20 gallon QT tank…

HUGE PROBLEM: Canada has banned Cupramine from Seachem. Bravo Canada!
So what can I treat with???

The only thing I was able to get my hands on was one 250ml bottle of ParaGuard (also banned) but it has no copper and has mixed reviews.

I don’t believe that by lowering salinity, raising water temperature, doing dips, buying a wrasse or using garlic will cure the fish.

There are parasites living in my aquarium that WILL kill my fish…

This really sucks cause my Flame Angel now has it on his tail fin… feel so bad for them.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!

 

[Spare time]

You can do hyposalinity. That will treat ich. @Jay Hemdal has a QT thread you should check out.

 

[Black Clover]

Great post by Jay Hemdal, thanks...
The Flame angel passed today... that's 4 fish down now. I'm down to 2 clownfish and 3 chromis... treating in QT with Paraguard and less salinity... dang you ICH!

 

[vetteguy53081]

My 55 gallon salt water DT has Ich!?!
I have lost 3 fish in one week.

I am convinced that the only thing that will cure Ich is to treat ALL my fish with copper in a QT. I cannot treat the DT as I have lots of invertebrates that will die from the the copper.

I believe I have to starve the parasites by removing fish and treating them in my 20 gallon QT tank…

HUGE PROBLEM: Canada has banned Cupramine from Seachem. Bravo Canada!
So what can I treat with???

The only thing I was able to get my hands on was one 250ml bottle of ParaGuard (also banned) but it has no copper and has mixed reviews.

I don’t believe that by lowering salinity, raising water temperature, doing dips, buying a wrasse or using garlic will cure the fish.

There are parasites living in my aquarium that WILL kill my fish…

This really sucks cause my Flame Angel now has it on his tail fin… feel so bad for them.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!

While copper does work well, we as a medic team would like to see pics and video under white light intensity to assess and confirm what issues you have

 

[Jason_MrFrags]

Do they allow Copper Power up there?

 

[Uncle99]

Great post by Jay Hemdal, thanks...
The Flame angel passed today... that's 4 fish down now. I'm down to 2 clownfish and 3 chromis... treating in QT with Paraguard and less salinity... dang you ICH!

Not less salinity but 1.009, that’s hypo, and only works ick.
Is a tried and true method.

 

[Spare time]

Great post by Jay Hemdal, thanks...
The Flame angel passed today... that's 4 fish down now. I'm down to 2 clownfish and 3 chromis... treating in QT with Paraguard and less salinity... dang you ICH!

Paraguard doesn't work for ich but does for brooklynella. I would just do hyposalinity though, not both. Make sure to achieve the very specific salinity needed. Also be careful with paraguard as it is an aldehyde based product.

 

[vancouverredsea350]

If you’re in Vancouver I have cupramine, I can give you some or you can order it off Amazon.com and have it delivered to your house but it takes a week or two and that may be too late?

 

[Black Clover]

If you’re in Vancouver I have cupramine, I can give you some or you can order it off Amazon.com and have it delivered to your house but it takes a week or two and that may be too late?

Thanks man. Appreciate that. Unfortunately I’m all the way across Canada in Quebec and it looks like time has run out. Lost one Chromi today too. Averaging a fish per day in last 5 days.
Lost my Flame Angel, Coral Beauty, Sailfin and Firefish too… Down to my two Clownfish and two last Chromis. At this point I’m just hoping my clowns can fight it. One of the Chromis has a spot. My salt is down to 1.015 and I’m doing water changes daily. Wish me luck. Sad to see the fish suffer and die, but also sad to see my money wasted…

 

[vancouverredsea350]

I feel your pain, I’ve had Ich wipe out my tank, then velvet, and then my own stupidity while going on vacation and turning the heat down in my house. Now all fish I buy go through cupramine and api general cure before going in the display and knock on wood I haven’t had any issues. Wish you the best of luck with your remaining fish! For what it’s worth my clownfish were the only ones to survive Ich.

 

[Black Clover]

Do they allow Copper Power up there?

No, sadly

 

[Black Clover]

ICH UPDATE:
3.5 weeks later... Only survivors were the Darwin clown fish and DaVinci clown fish. I stopped Paraguard as I read it was not efficient to treat Ich. - I lowered salinity and raised the water temp. Not sure if they survived on their own because they hardy fish or if the intervention helped. Maybe both...
They are still in 20 gallon QT doing very well but I'm having to do constant water changes, dealing with high Nitrites 1.0 ppm and Nitrates at 60 a few days ago. I'm down to 0.25 ppm and 20 now. I noticed the water is a little cloudy... not sure why. Maybe a bacterial boom? There was lots of brown algae that I had to scratch out of there... would this have messed with the water?

 

[Black Clover]

Thanks!