Re: hippo / regal whitespot....

Fresh water dip is not a good way to go.
A parasite under the skin of fishes never dies by fresh water dip.
If that ich seems to be serious, treat your hippo tang in quarantine tank
with copper for about 4 weeks. Or hyposalinity for 4 weeks. Most of people
think copper is the best medicine but may harm fish too if you don't use it
correctly.
Maybe putting cleaner shrimp in your tank can help a little.



"Ray Martini" <keyzpleez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My Hippo has white spots all the time! They come and go. I've had him for
> almost a year now. I do have a UV sterilizer unit on the tank and use it
> when I see white spots appear. Do not use Ich medicines if you have live
> rock and other forms of invert life.
>
> There's a couple of products that are "reef safe" ICH treatments but I
> haven't had any luck with them at all. If you can catch him, quarantine
> and freshwater dips is the way to go although the "ignore it" advice
> wasn't all that unreasonable.
>
>
> "Michael Lawford" <mikenewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:demlb8$jkb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi - my hippo tang has white sopt. It started off not too niticable but
>> now is all over him. I know these fish are very prone to it and my LFS
>> says to igonore it and do not dose any medicine, but I cant help thinking
>> that I should be.
>>
>> Any advice on what point to start dosing?
>>
>> ~m
>>
>
>


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