Fighting Ich Sucks If You Can't Catch Fish
 

As it sez I'm in a losing battle with Ich in my tank and I can't seem to beat it down......
All Suggestions Welcomed!


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Herbtana really worked for me in the past. After that I hooked up a UV light and it was gone in the next couple of months or so. What are you doing so far to beat it down?

Garlic extreme, I drop per gallon a day and in there food has always worked for me.

What have you tried? I soak any food in Selecon & garlic but for medications I would try Polyp Lab Medic, it's worked for me.

I'm one of those that prefers to use Hypo salinity in a QT environment

Yes, catching fish sucks, but there are many methods that work;
You can try trapping, netting at night while they are sleeping, and lowering your water level, to name a few

You asked for suggestions;

1 - remove all fish from tank and QT in Hypo, all the while your DT is kept fish-less for 9 weeks to starve the MI

2 - DT is fish-less as in suggestion 1, but treat your fish in QT with a more drastic approach, using copper-based medications in the QT, but there are long-tem effects on fish health associated with copper, and it's hard to monitor the correct levels

3 - use garlic, herbtana, or other stuff in your DT and see what happens

Many peeps have had success with with option 3
I haven't had to deal with it yet in my DT, so I can't give you personal experience, but I don't believe in it either ...
Fish health and immunity in dealing with MI, and concentrations in your DT, has some part in dealing with MI, so again, I won't rule out option 3, but it's not my choice
Concentrations of subsequent generations of MI can become very large in a glass box very fast ...

Eg: - in my 20g QT, a Royal Gramma had a couple spots on day 2, many spots on day 3, no spots on day 4, and then was totally covered on day 7 !!!

I QT all my new fishies, and have had MI in my QT ( the Gramma ), so I always keep them in QT for observation for at least 6 weeks
OK, ya, I only held my Foxface for 3 weeks in the QT, but knock-on-wood all was good with him :wink:

My tank appears to be MI free, so I am loving my QT ...


Good luck with whatever you try :wink:

I could not agree more, been very successful for me

Can't QT- no chance besides tearing the tank down, and that won't happen either.
How low can you go with corals present?


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Pretty sure you can't...

Is the fish eating when you feed it?

If it is, don't worry about it, it'll overcome it on it's own.

My achilllies had ich for like 4 months. Never did anything but feed it. It's all good now

Yeah I'm in the same boat, my tall tank makes it impossible to net fish. Trap has only worked once for me, and I will not sacrifice my corals.

I found that as long as they are eating (I soak everything in Garlic & have strong UV filter) then they will come around.

I personally think that the stress of hunting down and netting one particular fish to put him in QT gives the fish worse chances of survival then just feeding garlic. 2 out of 2 times when I cought fish with Ich and moved them to QT and started copper treatment the fish died in QT (and yes my QT setup was good and I dosed copper very carefully).