boxfishlover
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Location: Riverside, California
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 | | Subject: help!!! this is my first time having ICH i dont know what to do!! 3/27/2011, 3:14 am | |
| i have a 100 gallon half reef half fish display tank and i just purchased a humu humu the other day. He is doing great in my tank.. but earlier today he started to have white spots on his fins. i think he has came up with ICH!!!! i need to take him out and put him into my quarantine tank. any advice on what else to do in my display tank? do i medicate the entire tank?????
i have....
a 100g tank
20 g sump/refugium
tomato clown
pink skunk clown
2 square spot anthias
a Hawaiian puffer
dog face puffer
humu humu trigger
2 fire fish
raccoon butterfly
a blue angel fish
diamond head goby
bi color blenny
humu humu is the only fish with the spots
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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cwhip
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Location: Md
Favorite Fish:: Maroon clownfish,Tangs,bluespot jaw fish,Bangaii,Mandarins etc.......I love all fish really.
| | Subject: Re: help!!! this is my first time having ICH i dont know what to do!! 3/27/2011, 3:21 am | |
| you have pm.
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2SciCrazed
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Location: Middle TN
Favorite Fish:: Anything that's not belly up!
| | Subject: Re: help!!! this is my first time having ICH i dont know what to do!! 3/27/2011, 8:29 am | |
| They've all been exposed now. But take him out and treat him. In the display tank run a UV sterilizer to kill any ick sporasites that hatch. This will reduce their population and help protect the rest. |
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