Sm00th0perat0r

ok i have lost two of my fish and i dont know what to do i dont want to lose more my two angels died. i was putting medication for ich but i left my protein skimmer on and it was doing no good. should i just start over with the treatment.

Mike

Ich can definitely kill your fish and all fish, especially saltwater species should be quarantined before placing them into the main tank. There are lots of fish meds at the store for treating ich. I've used rid-ich+ and it works well. I dose everyday with 20% water changes daily while the fish are in qt. Once they show signs of ich I'll leave them in qt for a further 4 weeks or so while treating them.

You have to turn off the protein skimmer when using medications otherwise it just gets skimmed out of the water. I'd try to get them into a Quarantine Tank asap and treat them in qt if you have a setup with live rock or inverts in your main tank. The meds could harm the rock and inverts.

Hope that helps,
Mike

Sm00th0perat0r

i dont have one but i can get one but there hard to get out lol i have a 240 show its four feet talll and four feet wide and 2 feet in depth so i think im going to take out my star fish and as many snail as i can and and just us rid ich what you think i should do thanks so much iv been stressed out all day and i new here was the only place i can get a straight answer.

armadillo

Yeah, ich can kill, and it's all the more of a shame considering how easy it is to treat. Nowadays, noone should have to loose their fish to ich with all the really effective meds available.

armadillo

Don't you hate having sick fish? Good luck sorting them out.

Sm00th0perat0r

yea i hate having sick i feel like it was my falt cuz i forgot to turn my skimmer off they mite have been ok but i forgot.

Tayful

Sorry to hear that your fish got ich - that's definitely not a pleasant experience! From being around this forum I've learned that ich doesn't like warm water, so it's helpful to raise the temperature a couple of degrees as well. Sorry I couldn't be of much more help!

armadillo

Well, you know, these things happen. What counts is that you didn't do it out of neglect, but you were just distracted. It's not like you knew you had to do it but could not be bothered. Honestly? I reckon fish are lucky to have owners like you or me who sometimes forget stuff, as opposed to ones who consciously neglect them.

Is your fish OK? I can't give any saltwater advice, but I'd start a new thread asking for advice on ich if you still havne't got the answers you need to cure them.

Sm00th0perat0r

thank all of you yea in treating it know thanks to you guys this hole site helped ill keep you guys iformed how ther doing and my buddy at the fish store said he will hook it up cuz i think his tanks had it and thats how i got it im just going to make him cabinet door and he will give a adult imperal and a bg blond nazo so that cool. how do you guys post pic and stuff like that?

armadillo

No problem, SO. Glad to help.

I think this section will answer all your questions: http://www.fishlore.com/fishforum/how-do-i/.

Sm00th0perat0r

ok i put up to pics for know i got one of my tank lol so you can see why it so hard to do anything with it lol go take a look

agsansoo

Wow that a really deep tank. Nice !!

Sm00th0perat0r

yea you like it lol im getting sick of it but it looks so beautful when i had all my fish and good water without sick fish lol thats why i stillwant to keep it

Mike

The problem with treating ich in a 240 gallon tank would be the cost of the meds! One 4oz bottle of rid-ich (malachite green + formalin) would be required to treat a 240 gallon tank. And you may have to do this daily for a while until the ich stops coming back, along with daily partial water changes. The other drawbacks are that it can stain the silicone blue and harm your inverts and live rock. So, I'd definitely try to get any infected fish into a smaller volume of water to more effectively treat them.