So confused..ich or not??? Help

[cwatkins]

Go buy some Rowaphos and put it in the little micron bag that it comes with and drop that in your filter as well as the carbon.

Note: rinse it well first with RO water until no more colour bleeds out of it.

[Proteus]

I have used herbtana in the past with good results. I believe red coral carries it

[Coralgurl]

I bought herbtana tonight and read another post that the person used it and next day all fish except one were dead. I also bought ich attack, but don't know whether or not to put either of these in my tank. My bf and I are now fighting over this bec I think trying to catch one fish is going to stress the others and make things worse. We've got the qt set up and added an instant reef something so it can take a fish but it was me chasing 2 fish last week that caused this, he thinks they look fine, but my male clown won't come out of the nem and is breathing heavy. I don't know what the best thing to do is!!!

[Proteus]

The ich is in the tank though and really u will have to remove all or none fish. I have used ick attack and it took Alot of bottles before it cleared. Fish always have parasite and if you stress them
Out buy chasing with a net it's more harm than good. Water changes. Garlic. Selcom and something like ick attack. Herbtana. Or vital immune is a good choice. Also. I used metroplex it's a powder you put in the food which really helped for me it's a antibiotic of sorts. Just make sure you soak food overnight so it absorbs all.

If there are fish in the tank than the ich will never be gone as it used the fish to reproduce. So best is to treat the tank entire and keep it as low stress as possible.

[Coralgurl]

Well I've just dosed with the herbtana and no ones gone in the qt. We are heading out of town and if things don't look any better when we get back, will remove all fish and try hypo. My daughter can look after tank while we are gone to continue treatment. Here's hoping!!

[Coralgurl]

Corals are not liking this.....oh my....

[Coralgurl]

Well first dose seems to have gone well and everyone is doing ok. Corals did not like this treatment but all are open and look good this morning. The anenome looked the worst, it's tentacles got really thin and it's body puffed up but today looks good. The snails completely retracted into their shells, actually could hear and see them falling into rock and sand, but they are back to grazing as well. No change with the fish, actually noticed spots on my flame angles body which I hadn't seen before. That said, everyone came out to eat. Mixing up a new batch of food, feeding them smaller portions more often. I hope we can get this under control!

[Proteus]

Just remember you don't need to see it for the fish to have it. It will infest there gills first which is the heavy breathing you

[Coralgurl]

I can see it on everyone except the cardinals and the chromis. I'm sure that this is a massive outbreak and have no doubt all fish are affected. If I was not going away tomorrow, I would break down my tank to catch everything, put in the qt and hypo them but bec I'm leaving and my daughter is not comfortable with the maintenance, this is the best I can do. I will run the full 10 day treatment and see how things are from there. There are no plans to add any more fish to this tank and will be a long time before adding any corals, but we are set up going forward. Deep breath...

[Gripenfelter]

Soak their food in Selcon or Garlic extract.