ick please help

ok i recently bought a new porcupine puffer, a niger trigger and a feather duster (about a week ago) and i am pretty sure one of them had ick vefore i bought them but didnt notice until now. I have never had ick before. I have a hammer coral, a blue tuxedo urchin, a sand sifter star, two feather dusters, an undalted trigger, a sargassum angler, a maroon and gold clown and an emerald crab, i also have a few cromis and yellow tail damsels as feeders. Only the puffer and clown are showing signs of ick, i have removed the coral and all inverts into another tank. i have started lowering the salinty to help battle the ick. My question is Does garlic really help or is it a myth and how long does it take to rid my tank of ick?

 

garlic helps keep the fish eating wich in turn help them fight dieases. I think the full life cycle of ich is two months.

 

so should i drop bits of garlic in the tank or soak my silversides and shrimp in garlic? how would i go about doing that?

 

I've never tried garlic for treatment of ick but have found removing my fish to qt tank and using coppersafe for a month has cleared it right up. I have tried lowering the salinity, formalin baths (do not recommend), and melafix (though I can't remember if I tried this for ick or injury, I didn't like it in either case), and none seemed to work for me. Good luck, and I hope the garlic does the trick for you