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Originally Posted by rashr  Bottom line....once you get ich you keep ich unless you break down your tank and start new.....ich can not only come in on fish, but live rock, sand, and even inverts (not that inverts get it but they may have the cysts on their shells and such). I battle this too as does anyone that gets it, I tried UV sterilization...this works to reduce the ich but will not get rid of it....I have tried quarntining, but still get it from sand, rock and such.....the only thing I have been able to do is keep my salinity as stable as possible and temperature and pH as stable as possible and this keeps the tank happy and flare ups to a minimum.....if there truly is a was to eradicate ich I would love to hear it......that is with out tearing down my tank and or hurting my inverts and corals... |
I just bought a Diatom filter to help kill the free floating parasites and am going to buy a goby and cleaner shrimp to help clean the rocks i dont know what else to do it seems to be getting better ive been soaking thier food in garlic extreme for about an hour before feeding i cant QT all these fish in a 10 gallon aquarium that i use for QT dont know what else to do