[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by medhatreefguy

I think you mistook my statement, I'm not presenting scientific data that can be used to substantiate a cure for ich, nor am I trying to market anything for personal gain in any way. I merely stated the method I used to overcome the problem, and the end result was a success. Which approach worked, or if all of them worked I don't know. For the amount of research that has been done, we still know very little about the effect of garlic on ich in an aquarium, other than it makes the whole room smell like crap. These "remedial animals" get the same care as everything else in the tank. My Cleaner Wrasse is very healthy and eating well on food other than parasites. To correct you, I do not have any infected fish in my tank. I find it ironic that your approach is to treat a fish with copper which is one of the most stressful things you could do to a fish, not to mention the only way to do this successfully is to remove all of the fish from the tank and run it fallow until the parasite has run its course. This is an option that many people such as myself do not have. Once again I am not trying to mislead people, and I don't think feeding food soaked in garlic or introducing a few new fish is going to result in disaster. Of all the options available, none are any better than a mere shot in the dark, everyone is looking for the same thing, a safe treatment that helps get rid of ich. I'm not the Pied Piper, I doubt if everyone is going to blindly try my approach, give people some credit here. Just one more thing, why would you cycle a quarantine tank when the copper is going to kill everything off anyway?

You can cycle a quarantine tank... Copper doesn't wipe out nitrifying bacteria. Most stores run copper in their fish systems.