I really hate ich. I've battled it in my fish only tank. I tried everything to eliminate it, and finally ended up stripping the tank bare turning it into a hospital tank and going with copper treatment. If you have the hospital tank, move all the fish and use copper, it was the only thing that has worked for me. All the other treatments abated the outbreak for a while, but did not eliminate it. I ended up ditching all the rock and sand out of the tank to be sure it no longer was present. Fortunately there was no live rock there. If there had been I would have had to leave the tank fallow for a couple of months with the fish in another tank. The whole experience was a major PITA. If you don't remove all the fish from your tank for treatment, the ich will still be in the tank even if there is no obvious sign of it. You need to treat all the fish and fallow the tank to be sure it is eliminated.
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I retired and got a fixed income but it's broke.
Ed
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50 gallon FOWLR, 10 gallon sump.
130 gallon reef, 20 gallon sump, 10 gallon refugium.
10 gallon quarantine.
60 gallon winter tank for pond fish.
300 gallon pond with waterfall.
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