Give your fish a fresh water dip for five to ten minutes, then try putting him in a water only tank with a copper medication. Remember that you need to get rid of the ick in the main tank before you can put him back in or this will just keep happening.

Also, regal tangs get ick all the time, really their is nothing you can do. Garlic is the best way to speed up the process of the fish dropping the ick, but it never really gets rid of the ick. Try cutting down on the ammount of food you are feeding your fish to once a day and every so offten no food for the day. Only alge for the tang. If you have cleaner shrimp, the lack of food in the system will make them clean the fish double time to feed themselves.

I found by doing nothing but cut back the food and just letting nature take its course was the best method. My tang is doing great, no ick for over a month. Best of luck!! :smile:

CP
Vancouver

forget FW dip it will only stress your fish, just do a hyposalinity or copper in a QT and also use garlic.

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Be sure not to use copper with mandarines - it'll kill them

Thanks for the feed back. I have been feeding garlic it seems to be getting better.

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I'm over three weeks into hyposalinity treatment and I'm getting ready to re-acclimate the fish. Poor fish have been bored sick for over three weeks now, I will be putting them back into the main tank around the 4 week time. Hopefully it has been long enough, and I think that with garlic feedings and my two cleaner shrimp they will be ok.