PSXerholic
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Folks,
since it seems to be the season again, and I get more and more requests what I do against ICH, I wanted to share a few things to treat it.
I may need to consider this info in one of my next "Andre's Reef Guide" series
A few people who came over for Coral frag pick ups and have seen my Clowns and my Blue Tang white spotted and almost lose their eyeballs when they show up a week later for another frag pickup and all fish looks superior again, are keep asking me more recently how did I do that
Well, first and foremost I like to repeat that no tank can be free of ICH forever.
I personally do not even believe that there is any matured tank free of ICH.
The disease will break out when you stress your fish too much while playing with too many parameter at the same time and or start doing huge maintenance activities, like in my cases if it appears.
A good and healthy Reef tank will very unlikely have a real issue. Nevertheless, it can happen no matter what.
Just one pump stirring up your sand bed, and that's it ;-)
You may see sudden outbreak.
If you have your tank in good parameter and nothing real major going on, then the following method has been proven to be very very very successful.
What to do:
We just bump up the Immune System of your fish, and typically you see much better conditions the next day, and overall the fish are typically healthy as never before within 4-6 days.
You take Tetra marine Flake food.
3-4 times a day you take a bit and soak it in a good amount of SELCON which is just a Vitamin supplement for food.
You do this for a few days until fish looking good again and that's it.
Easy as that, sorry I can't write more about it even if I would, now I have to come up with something to fill this post so and it doesn't look that empty and many before couldn't and still do not believe it that it can be so easy to treat this ultimate fish disease that a whole industry filling their pockets with every day and now I don't know anything else I can say about it............
One thing maybe,
if there is a fish with real bad immune system and old, bad looking or whatever, he might die from the ICH because his illness lead to the ICH. Doesn't mean the ICH was the original disease responsible for the fishes death.
Keep that in mind, a single fish dying on ICH does not necessarily mean the entire tank will die on ICH ;-)
Some people take so many action when they see a single white spot, that the action that has been taken, makes things worse by stressing your fish population.
Partial Credit for this info above goes to DIESEL.
He also hooked me up to SELCON ;-)
Happy Reefing,
Andre
since it seems to be the season again, and I get more and more requests what I do against ICH, I wanted to share a few things to treat it.
I may need to consider this info in one of my next "Andre's Reef Guide" series
A few people who came over for Coral frag pick ups and have seen my Clowns and my Blue Tang white spotted and almost lose their eyeballs when they show up a week later for another frag pickup and all fish looks superior again, are keep asking me more recently how did I do that
Well, first and foremost I like to repeat that no tank can be free of ICH forever.
I personally do not even believe that there is any matured tank free of ICH.
The disease will break out when you stress your fish too much while playing with too many parameter at the same time and or start doing huge maintenance activities, like in my cases if it appears.
A good and healthy Reef tank will very unlikely have a real issue. Nevertheless, it can happen no matter what.
Just one pump stirring up your sand bed, and that's it ;-)
You may see sudden outbreak.
If you have your tank in good parameter and nothing real major going on, then the following method has been proven to be very very very successful.
What to do:
We just bump up the Immune System of your fish, and typically you see much better conditions the next day, and overall the fish are typically healthy as never before within 4-6 days.
You take Tetra marine Flake food.
3-4 times a day you take a bit and soak it in a good amount of SELCON which is just a Vitamin supplement for food.
You do this for a few days until fish looking good again and that's it.
Easy as that, sorry I can't write more about it even if I would, now I have to come up with something to fill this post so and it doesn't look that empty and many before couldn't and still do not believe it that it can be so easy to treat this ultimate fish disease that a whole industry filling their pockets with every day and now I don't know anything else I can say about it............
One thing maybe,
if there is a fish with real bad immune system and old, bad looking or whatever, he might die from the ICH because his illness lead to the ICH. Doesn't mean the ICH was the original disease responsible for the fishes death.
Keep that in mind, a single fish dying on ICH does not necessarily mean the entire tank will die on ICH ;-)
Some people take so many action when they see a single white spot, that the action that has been taken, makes things worse by stressing your fish population.
Partial Credit for this info above goes to DIESEL.
He also hooked me up to SELCON ;-)
Happy Reefing,
Andre