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jonathan · 10-27-2006, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by serotonin

My opinion is that you remove all the fish from your tank for a minimum of 4 weeks. And I would like to illustrate the use of minimum. I would also not waste any money on buying some chemical treatment from a store other than some cupramine or perhapas malachite green or another effective ich treatment. Keep it simple, get the fish out and into a quarentine and treat there while your main tank stays completely fishless for 4 weeks. Do not treat your reef with any chemicals. The use of UV would help some but it is not an effective treatment, its more of a risk reducer and/or band-aid IMHO.

Best wishes.

good advice.

coaster · 10-27-2006, 06:33 PM

Yeah, that's what the research I did suggested as well. I was just triing to find an easier way. Next week I will set up a qt to keep my fish in for at 6 weeks.
Thanks for your help.
Darren

queshibo · 12-21-2006, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Tangster

all specks are not ich where these fish ever seen laying on their side on the bottom of the Aquarium, Or trying to get air by attempting to breathe at the surface. Or swimming up and down in a corner or just hanging infront of a power head or any high water flow area in the tank ?

my blue tang has white specks on it, and it does sit in front of a power head as of yesterday, any suggestions?

serotonin · 12-21-2006, 10:02 AM

May I also illustrate the effectiveness of treating your food with garlic on a regular basis.

mwlude · 12-21-2006, 11:50 AM

When my tank had ick I used kick ick, treated the food with garlic and added a cleaner shrimp. The fish have been ick free for almost a year. I believe that the cleaner shrimp helped the most.

bouraganes · 12-21-2006, 01:33 PM

I treated my whole tank (corals and all) with Kordon Ich Attack - it's 100 % oraganic did a good jod getting rid of Ich and didn't seem to bother anything else in my tank!

dragonflylures · 01-05-2007, 08:28 PM

I had a bad ick attack start Christmas, tried some organic stuff and work up and it had just exploded. I went back and bought some Kordon Ick Attack and a cleaner shrimp. A few days later it looked like everyone was healing nicely -- the trigger (orginal patient) had a few spots left but were leaving. The next day my threadfin and yellow tang were absolutely covered with spots -- all while still treating with Ich Attack.

Well it's almost 2 weeks later -- no fish lost -- still some signs of ick as I've been still treating with the Ick Attack and Organic stuff the LFS had me try. Everyone seems pretty healthy other than the white spots.

How long will Ick last like this? Do I need to blast the tank with copper? A quarantine tank is out of the question -- the ick occured 3 months or so after my last fish purchase, just frustrating....

On the plus side I just built my own sump, going to leak check it tomorrow

milesm4 · 01-05-2007, 10:16 PM

I had an ich outbreak two months ago, I soaked all my food in garlic and added a UV sterilizer and an ozone generator. For me the garlic worked pretty darn good the fish seem to be more attracted their food. Take that advice for what you paid for it.

ReefJunkie · 01-13-2007, 02:29 PM

I found some ich on some of my fish last week, I have started treating it with Ruby Reef Kick-Ich and garlic, so far so good, everyone is eating and swimming happly for now, Lets hope it stays that way.

TheDuck · 01-16-2007, 11:16 PM

Ok..I read all of the above posts and have made notes of treatments.

I just noticed (in the past 10 minutes of me posting this) that my Domino damsel has 6 little white spots around his nose and my clown has two spots on his tail. Is this Ich?