fish died

[GaryP]

Larry's (Instar) the man when it comes to diseases. Richard is also a very good source of info. Richard fights disease on a regular basis because he's constantly getting in new, stressed fish. He's also one of the few LFS owners that quarantine fish. Drop him a PM, he's very helpful. He may not catch this thread, but he's good about answering PM's.

My opinion is that ich is usually the result of some form of stress in the tank. Most Tang's are carriers of ich but it doesn't get to the full blown stage until some sort of environmental, nutritional or behaviorial source of stress occurs.
I'd take a look at what is going on in your tank. What has changed?

Gary

[cailan]

one of the fish has a white patch on his head and i'm not sure what it is. any ideas?
instar mentioned the temp. drop in the tank over night so i checked it out this morning and it was at about 72 so i turned up the heater. will heating up the tank correct the problem or should i treat it with medication. it's a fish only tank.

[cailan]

i got some melafix to put in the tank to take care of anything that might be in there and i'm working on trying to bring up the temp in the tank. the problem is my mom doesn't like turning on the house heater up stairs at night so i guess the tank heater kind of gets track during the temperature change at night. i'll keep a close eye on the temperature for a while.

[JimD]

Sounds like youre on the right track, good luck!

[Reef69]

Ive noticed ich appears more with temp. changes..so try to keep it steady..good luck

[CD]

i fed him brine shrimp of course with the other fish

Also, I would strongly suggest switching to mysis shrimp in lieu of brine. Brine doesn't have *near* the nutrients in them as mysis. My fish may get brine shrimp only about once a week. Check out the labels for nutrition levels (compare) next time you are in the store buying frozen...I like Hikari the best.

Wendy

[cailan]

thanks for all the advice guys, i appreciate it. i'll go ahead and look into getting mysis shrimp.
again thanks.