Joys of Ick in a 180 gallon DT
Well before adding fish to my 180g since the start up I have had a qt setup for observing all and treating if necessary. Few weeks ago I added a mandarin into the tank without qt because I was worried about feeding him. Needless to say very bad idea, few days in spots appeared on him. At this point I only had a total of 6 fish in the DT so I was going to just let it play out, feed heavy and soak food in selcon. After losing my powder blue tang last night and the mandarin tonight I attempted to catch the remaining 4 fish. 2 clowns and the sailfin tang were simple didn't have to remove any rocks. Lol but of course the last fish was a checkerboard wrasse, an hour and a half later and almost all the rock/coral removed from the tank I got him!!
The fish are now in qt and I'm going to try treating them with New Life Spectrum Ick Shield bath powder. It's a CP based med so should do the trick. Treatment is 21 days and then I am leaving the display fallow for 72 days. I'll keep everyone posted how the NLS powder works. |
i guess you proved this article wrong. Read the notes at the bottom of it.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-09/fish/ |
I have never seen a mandarin with ich , it is the only fish I add to my tank without QT. Anybody have pics of a mandarin with ich?
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Lost a couple to velvet, but not ich
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I have seen Mandarin's with ick.
Mandarins have scaleless skin and rely on a mucous layer to protect themselves. But, when they are caught with a fish net and rolled around in the net the mucous layer gets scraped off. Then they have no protection left. Once you use the net on a Mandarin you need to rinse it thoroughly as the mucous is toxic to other fish. |
I am almost positive it was ick, spots disappeared and came back ect. This started at least 3 weeks ago. I would assume velvet would kill much quicker from what I have read. I could have possibly misidentified it lol but either way all fish are in qt now being treated.
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It's not so much that it was a Mandarin, but that the infection killed other fish.
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