Has anyone seen this?

[Bob I]

Last night I shone a flashlight on my tank, and noticed it was full of small animals swimming in the water column. I would think it was some form of plankton. Anyway it is great for my night feeding corals. The Caulastrea, and the open brains had all their feeding tentacles out. :mrgreen:

[Quinn]

Pods?

[EmilyB]

Plankton I believe. It's really cool if you shine the flashlight straight down from above and watch the beam of light. All kinds of eyes coming and going :cool:

[Bob I]

I have done some further reflection on this. When I saw this phenomenon I was in the middle of an Ich outbreak. I am thinking what I saw was the free swimming stage of the ich parasite. Whatever it was, it has not reoccurred. :confused:

[monza]

I saw a weird swimming mass of tiny little white things; they swam in a bobbing diagonal pattern. I ran to get the camera and have never seen them since??? I don’t look very often at night with the flashlight maybe I’d see them again if I did. Not regular pods for sure, don’t have a clue what they were. Don't think it was Ich as I don't have any. KOW (knock on wood)
Interesting if you saw Ich tomants(sp?) swimming, have never read anything about that. I would have assumed the swimming stage of Ich would be really, really small but those are big glasses.

Dave

PS
Bob, I have a big UV unit if you would like to borrow it. I do believe it is a big help in killing Ich if set up right. How is the Ich battle going?

GO FLAMES GO

[Bob I]

I saw a weird swimming mass of tiny little white things; they swam in a bobbing diagonal pattern. I ran to get the camera and have never seen them since??? I don’t look very often at night with the flashlight maybe I’d see them again if I did. Not regular pods for sure, don’t have a clue what they were. Don't think it was Ich as I don't have any. KOW (knock on wood)
Interesting if you saw Ich tomants(sp?) swimming, have never read anything about that. I would have assumed the swimming stage of Ich would be really, really small but those are big glasses.

I am not sure if the Ich tomonts are visible to the naked eye

Dave

PS
Bob, I have a big UV unit if you would like to borrow it. I do believe it is a big help in killing Ich if set up right. How is the Ich battle going?

GO FLAMES GO

The Ich battle is going poorly. The two fish are in the 11G nano. The salinity is way down, but the Ich is still there. I am waiting for an accurate hydrometer to arrive so I can get the salinity accurately down to 1.009 :rolleyes:

[Beverly]

The Ich battle is going poorly. The two fish are in the 11G nano. The salinity is way down, but the Ich is still there. I am waiting for an accurate hydrometer to arrive so I can get the salinity accurately down to 1.009 :rolleyes:

Sorry to hear about your ich, boB :frown:

I recently acquired a scissor tailed angel, headed for my 72g tank of doom, that had been treated for ich at the lfs for two weeks. Put the angel in its own Qtank just in case it still had ich. Well, 8 days after putting it in the Qtank, it seems to be affected by one ich on its pectoral fin :confused:

I can drop salinity as I have a hydrometer, but am going to do the intensive Garlic Xtreme/Immune Boost/Kent Zoe method on this fish like I did with the other two fish that had ich and no have none. The other two fish, btw, are in another Qtank and have shown no signs of ich for the past 8 weeks.

Don't know how truly effective the mega Garlic Xtreme/Immune Boost/Zoe regimine is, but I'm going to feed the new ich fish PE mysis soaked 14 drops of GX, 1/16th teaspoon of IB and a half teaspoon of Zoe twice daily.

If this doesn't work like it did on the other two fish, I'll be doing the hyposalinity. Will give the new ich fish about 2-3 weeks of the additive soaked food before dropping salinity.

ARRGGHHHH!!! I hate ich :eek: :evil:

[monza]

A Ich must read:

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/nov2003/mini1.htm

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/dec2003/mini2.htm

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/jan2004/mini3.htm

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/feb2004/mini4.htm

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/mar2004/mini5.htm

A five part series... lots of reading.

Dave

[Beverly]

Dave, Have read them. Thanks for bringing them back to our attention, though :smile:

[EmilyB]

Larger fish simply don't do well in sumpless, skimmerless systems ime, imo.