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Mappa and Starry with Ich

Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:22 pm
by Robd97
Ph 8.4, ammonia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrate below 30. I have a 3 inch undlated trigger, 3.5 inch picasso trigger, 4.5 inch stellatus puffer, 4 inch clown trigger and a 3.5 inch mappa puffer. The triggers are healthy they eat everything and anything, I introduced the puffers roughly 2.5 months ago with out quarentining them first stupidly. Both puffers have been off and on with ich, they don't have ips because I treated there food with meds for that early on. I tried cupramine or whatever it's called for 4 days with no luck about 2 weeks ago. I don't want to keep medicating these guys, but I will not accept losing them. Any advice puffer punk? It's a 125 gal tank.

I would also like to add that the stellatus eats like a monster and the mappa eats well enough, but neither will accept anything other than raw shrimp and scallops.

Re: Mappa and Starry with Ich

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:54 pm
by Lukedt95
I'm not sure whether you'd have to quarantine the affected fish, but RTR's salt method is great, I used it to succesfully cure my puffer of ich recently.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28113

Anyway good luck with your puffers bro.

Re: Mappa and Starry with Ich

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:16 am
by Robd97
Lukedt95 wrote:I'm not sure whether you'd have to quarantine the affected fish, but RTR's salt method is great, I used it to succesfully cure my puffer of ich recently.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28113

Anyway good luck with your puffers bro.
Will the salt method work on salt water fish?

Re: Mappa and Starry with Ich

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:07 am
by Pufferpunk
LOL, not at all. Hypo is the way to go. If you don't have a QT large enough for all those fish, then remove all the LR/sand to a vat with a heater & flow & hypo in the DT. You're gonna need a huge tub to make prepared water in, as you'll be doing HUGE daily WC for the tank.

Re: Mappa and Starry with Ich

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:25 am
by Robd97
Pufferpunk wrote:LOL, not at all. Hypo is the way to go. If you don't have a QT large enough for all those fish, then remove all the LR/sand to a vat with a heater & flow & hypo in the DT. You're gonna need a huge tub to make prepared water in, as you'll be doing HUGE daily WC for the tank.

Thanks, cheers

Re: Mappa and Starry with Ich

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:23 am
by FADE2BLACK_1973
Just want to add. A good UV will help abunch, imo... Killing the free swimming stages of the ich. Oh, and boosting the immune systems will help out as well.