Certain Fish More Prone To Ich?

[Reef_Angel]

I can't say that I've had vast experience, but I will say that when I but smaller fish, I have never had problems after having them for a couple weeks getting ich. The bigger fish like the yellow tang and the auigura butterfly both got it while the others in the tank resisted it. I know we always get questions on the best cures, but here it comes again. Audrey the butterfly need curing. What's you BEST suggestion.?

[peregrinus]

certain fish are more prone to ich. a blue tang is i think one of the most prone. less stress and feed garlic enhanced food. in my FW tanks i have rasied the temp to above 80 and it seemed to cut the life cycle down to less than a day and then it was gone but i don't thing i would do that on a reef tank.

[Buiryn]

I've use hyposalinity for a six weeks on all incoming fish ever since my first outbreak of ich. I lost a powder blue tang to ich and I don't plan on losing another one. Once I realized I had ich, I placed ALL the fish in hypo for six weeks. Luckily I only had a few at the time.

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Matt

[dakar]

Talk about planning things out just about right, short of the ich The 29G was going to get filled tongiht anyhows for her to be relocated to later anyhows... new refractometer should be delivered via FedEx this afternoon too... guess we go no substrate for now and use it for treatment. Was planning on doing a 15 gallon WC from the main tank, use the waste water in the 29 and top off with the fresh mixed...thinking it would be a less stressful acclimation..anyone see anything wrong with that line of thinking? (I'll cut up some PVC to make some hiding structures and such to toss in there as well). Hoping not to see a huge cycle during treatment in a clean tank. Don't want to hypo the main tank., and seems like the 180 is taking forever to cycle.

[Reptoreef]

I think you'r idea is just right... as simple as possible: bare bottom, heater, hyposalinity, hang on FW filter minus the carbon, no light, and maybe a short pvc big enough in diameter for the fish to hide in to reduce stress. BTW, plan on a new tank if you treat with copper.

[Reef_Angel]

No copper treatments done in this house!

[Reptoreef]

OK... My last recommendation was given by peregrinus... garlic back-up.

[dakar]

hahahaha think Angel hit the nail head on and loud enough for us both...LOL

Thanks for the advice. Gotta go start fetching water upstairs.

Quick question though... Why no light? That more for the fish or the parasites?

[PMPT]

I've found that in general Tangs are prone to ich. I have a small blue tang that just got over a really bad case of ich. Its been about a month or two, but I tried everything, garlic fresh water dips, and high salinty. Nothing worked. I went to my LFS and bought Marine NO-Ich. Worked like a charm. It recovered within a week and has been doing great ever since. I do feed garlic as a prevenitive. Not so much a cure, although I've seen it cure some small cases of ich. I'd stay away from the powder blue tangs, I've heard and seen that they get ich more than typical.

[Reptoreef]

Light can increase stress... ilnesses tend to be increased or influenced by stress.