!! ICH !!

[z28pwr]

Honestly fish should not die because of ick, especilly in a tank with a SG of 1.020. All you have to do to get rid of ick in that is raise the temp a little and feed well if things are going normally. Is there a refugium with macro growing in there? Macro aids in the immune response and disease resistivity believe it or not. I believe that things appearing as ick do cause death as Wendy addresses above. I noticed a probe or maybe a heater in your picture that looks like it could be a metal outside casing? What is that?

Larry, that is a WON heater. I belive it's made out of stainless steel.

[Richard]

LOL...don't bow to me, I still screw up and kill stuff!

z28 - My last post logged as Guest so I can't edit it.
You may want to warm your tank up to 84 or so. The recommended treatment for Icthobodosis or similar parasites is to increase temperature to 86 degrees (Noga). I wouldn't set the heaters at 86 if your lighting is going to raise it beyond that during the day. It's kinda of a catch 22 though because 86 degrees is the optimal temperature for cryptocaryon to reproduce so IF it is cryptocaryon the higher temperature could make it worse faster. Kinda sucks but if we didn't want a challenge then we'd be into basket weaving instead of sw tanks right?

[NaCl_H2O]

Very nice write up Richard! Maybe we should start a "Ask Richard" forum ;)

Actually, I just wanted an excuse to use this smiley