Need help asap.

[Bill S]

Greg,

You are absolutely free to do as you please. BUT.

If you re-read the above posts, you'll see that much of what you are doing isn't really being recommended. If you read between the lines, the answers to your posts are basically: "...well, if that's what you want to do, then do this...".

The way I see, you had a large fish die, and your tank started to crash. This freaked your other fish out, and they got ich.

The solution that -I- would use, is simple: Fix your chemistry problems, feed your fish WELL, and do regular water changes to keep nitrates down. Happy fish = no ich. It's THAT simple. Frankly, I wouldn't use Melafix or Quick Cure on a bet. But then, what the heck. I've only been keeping SW fish for 35 years.

BTW, while it's primarily SPS that won't survive the high temps, other corals aren't particularly fond if it either. That being said, my tank occasionally gets to 83...

[erikharrison]

Since you are heating the tank, please do it slowly. You don't want the anemone releasing nasties in your tank, or worse, dying. Run some carbon! IMO treating your display with "reef safe" chemicals is just not good practice. "Take care of the water and the fish will take care of themsleves." That's MissT's quote, and your fish will live and die by it.

[JimD]

"Since you are heating the tank, please do it slowly. You don't want the anemone releasing nasties in your tank"

Hmmm, thats interesting, have you run accross any documentation indicating that there is a correlation between the two?? The reason I ask is because I recently encountered an event where my anemone released you know what into the water and at the same time I noticed that my heater malfunctioned causing the temp to get up to around 87 or so degrees, I really didnt think anything of it till now... Any info would be cool...

[crossxfire2]

I once had a hippo tang who got a case of ich. I put him in a huge bowl of dechlorinated freshwater for about 4 minutes. It did the trick, but he didn't have a SEVERE case, it was only mild. But it still worked! No lies.

[Bill S]

Did the dip work, or would it have recovered just fine on his/her own??? You'll never know for sure!

[crossxfire2]

Did the dip work, or would it have recovered just fine on his/her own??? You'll never know for sure!

You could be right! And I will never know for sure! haha

[copperband]

i have a cleaner shrimp that cleans my fish and i just got a coral banded shrimp so now i got to cleaners try cleaner shrimp and stuff like that

[erikharrison]

"Since you are heating the tank, please do it slowly. You don't want the anemone releasing nasties in your tank"

Hmmm, thats interesting, have you run accross any documentation indicating that there is a correlation between the two?? The reason I ask is because I recently encountered an event where my anemone released you know what into the water and at the same time I noticed that my heater malfunctioned causing the temp to get up to around 87 or so degrees, I really didnt think anything of it till now... Any info would be cool...

Honestly, no I don't. I just figured that since anemones are pretty sensitive to changes, so it would be a much higher probability of it occuring. I assume this because I am sure that in nature they at some point release their toxins anyway. This would just help that to happen.