I just found your channel and I love your videos! Ich has always been a sore spot in the hobby for me because there is so much misinformation on the topic. You did a wonderful job with this video. I too use the transfer method and I too have left my tank without fish to kill ich. I have taken great messieurs to keep my tank ich free. I quarantine anything wet and use the transfer method on all fish. One point of criticism would be about the statement of having to leave your tank without fish for 10 weeks. I believe the most important study to reference is the 1985 A Colorni study which was conducted at a set temperature range of 24 degrees Celsius plus or minus 1 degree and is the source of the time frames you were presenting. With this study you can see that you would only need to leave a tank without fish for 30 days and 18 hours to be ich free. I believe the confusion comes from the 1997 Colorni and Burgess study which was designed specifically to extend the life cycle of ich through lower water temperatures. I just don't want to continue to discourage people from trying to keep ich free systems because they think it is too time consuming to quarantine everything wet going into their system. Again, I love your videos and fact based approach to reef keeping. Aloha, Sean
Spot on buddy good video, I got those little bastards in my 165 gallon reef tank, I set up a 30 gallon hospital tank, removed fish from reef tank, nightmare to do by the way, treated with copper for 4 weeks in the hospital tank, and left the reef tank empty of fish for 10 weeks...problem solved!!
@@jluusaltwateraquarium8320 could be ich! If you only have fish, and will only ever have fish, you can use a copper based medication in the tank. Otherwise, I'd suggest setting up a quarentine tank for the fish and doing the "tank transfer method" on them. Then keep them in the final QT tank for 72 days (min) and ich will be gone.
Some fish can deal with ich, but even so they'll have a small amount of it on them - particularly in gills and places like that. Imagine having little itchy cysts and no hands to scratch them with...
@@ReefMan Just getting into this hobby, setting up two tanks and swap fishes while keeping all the coral within the original tank alive seems a bit challenging. But every month my fish gets this and it is getting worse every time..
Yea, I agree. Unfortunately there is only one sure fire way to get rid of it in a tank with coral, which is removing the fish for a fallow period. While the fish are out you could use TTM or copper - but be careful with copper as it's really hard on the fish and some won't tolerate it. TTM has been more successful for me. Ich is one of those things better to just never get into your tank unfortunately.
Hi! so lovely when reading all your responses in comment section I have a problem with ich, Sir, but now i'm curing the fish in hospital tank. I have questions. There are many invert in previous tank (got ich), do inverts carry ich? and is it okay if i move my invert from previous tank to the healty one? I just afraid they carry the parasite and will messing up my new tank.
Inverts can carry ich in it's cyst form, but it cannot reproduce or feed without fish. To be safe, just keep them in a tank without fish for 90 days - this should be long enough that even the most persistent ich trophonts will hatch - and then die, because there are no fish to feed on.
Oh man, what if you dont have a QT and cant really get your fish out of the display? I also can't afford another QT, it was expensive enough to set up a freshwater QT.. I have no spare tanks left for my saltwater fish (2 clowns).. idk what to do. I hope I dont lose them.
I just found your channel and I love your videos! Ich has always been a sore spot in the hobby for me because there is so much misinformation on the topic. You did a wonderful job with this video. I too use the transfer method and I too have left my tank without fish to kill ich. I have taken great messieurs to keep my tank ich free. I quarantine anything wet and use the transfer method on all fish. One point of criticism would be about the statement of having to leave your tank without fish for 10 weeks. I believe the most important study to reference is the 1985 A Colorni study which was conducted at a set temperature range of 24 degrees Celsius plus or minus 1 degree and is the source of the time frames you were presenting. With this study you can see that you would only need to leave a tank without fish for 30 days and 18 hours to be ich free. I believe the confusion comes from the 1997 Colorni and Burgess study which was designed specifically to extend the life cycle of ich through lower water temperatures. I just don't want to continue to discourage people from trying to keep ich free systems because they think it is too time consuming to quarantine everything wet going into their system. Again, I love your videos and fact based approach to reef keeping. Aloha, Sean
That's great info! I didn't know the source of the data - it'll be really interesting to go back and read the original studies! Thank you so much!
Spot on buddy good video, I got those little bastards in my 165 gallon reef tank, I set up a 30 gallon hospital tank, removed fish from reef tank, nightmare to do by the way, treated with copper for 4 weeks in the hospital tank, and left the reef tank empty of fish for 10 weeks...problem solved!!
Yea it's so much easier to QT on the way in. I'm glad you got it solved though!
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what's all those green patches on your aquarium rocks?
UV sterilizer will help also
great video !!!
Good topic!
Nemanja Mijatovic thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Have you tried Ruby Reef’s kick-ich? It’s worked in my reef tank
Did it actually work though? Seems a product that worked would be well known.
Fantastic video.... Hey sir how you fight ich out of tank..
You either need to medicate with copper (which will kill your corals and crabs and poison your rock) or keep fish out of the tank for a fallow period.
Had to look it up, 72 days without any fish will remove it from your tank.
1 week ago I put 2 new fish in now they die .. Now I see some other fish having white spots on their body..
@@jluusaltwateraquarium8320 could be ich! If you only have fish, and will only ever have fish, you can use a copper based medication in the tank. Otherwise, I'd suggest setting up a quarentine tank for the fish and doing the "tank transfer method" on them. Then keep them in the final QT tank for 72 days (min) and ich will be gone.
Thanks you so much sir....
What happens if you just do nothing to it?
Some fish can deal with ich, but even so they'll have a small amount of it on them - particularly in gills and places like that. Imagine having little itchy cysts and no hands to scratch them with...
@@ReefMan Just getting into this hobby, setting up two tanks and swap fishes while keeping all the coral within the original tank alive seems a bit challenging. But every month my fish gets this and it is getting worse every time..
Yea, I agree. Unfortunately there is only one sure fire way to get rid of it in a tank with coral, which is removing the fish for a fallow period. While the fish are out you could use TTM or copper - but be careful with copper as it's really hard on the fish and some won't tolerate it. TTM has been more successful for me. Ich is one of those things better to just never get into your tank unfortunately.
Hi! so lovely when reading all your responses in comment section
I have a problem with ich, Sir, but now i'm curing the fish in hospital tank. I have questions. There are many invert in previous tank (got ich), do inverts carry ich? and is it okay if i move my invert from previous tank to the healty one?
I just afraid they carry the parasite and will messing up my new tank.
Inverts can carry ich in it's cyst form, but it cannot reproduce or feed without fish. To be safe, just keep them in a tank without fish for 90 days - this should be long enough that even the most persistent ich trophonts will hatch - and then die, because there are no fish to feed on.
@@ReefMan Thx!!!
Good luck! It takes a while, but it's almost guaranteed if you stick with it long enough.
Oh man, what if you dont have a QT and cant really get your fish out of the display? I also can't afford another QT, it was expensive enough to set up a freshwater QT.. I have no spare tanks left for my saltwater fish (2 clowns).. idk what to do. I hope I dont lose them.
You can try things in your display, but really there’s no way to really rid your tank if you have fish and coral without a treatment tank to use.
Colloidal Silver works great
Jadi pemecahan masalahnya gimana???
saw this first good vid
Thanks!! I did just add an annotation to the beginning of the video so that it'll be easier to find the other video.
ReefMan i seen it all ready love all your stuff keep them comeing ill b hear watching