Ich Treatment

[naesco]

Originally Posted by Ryan

Well I lost my Black Clownfish today while I was at work. he had it the worst and now the little black has it pretty bad. I am not sur ewhy but only the tank bred clowns have it bad. The WC clown is now showing no signs of the ich same with the Anthias and Firefish. The tank bred Bangaii isnt showing any signs either. Really make me scratch my head.

Sorry about the black.
The ich will fall off the fish as part of its cycle and then come back even worse unless you have set up a QT or treated the fish.
What steps have you taken?

[Ryan]

So far its only been 24 hours scince I have noticed it. I have bought some Garlic Extreme and Selcon which is soaking up in some NLS pellets as I type this. I also bought a Cuppermine bottle and Copper test but am hoping I wont have to use it.

[naesco]

Originally Posted by Ryan

So far its only been 24 hours scince I have noticed it. I have bought some Garlic Extreme and Selcon which is soaking up in some NLS pellets as I type this. I also bought a Cuppermine bottle and Copper test but am hoping I wont have to use it.

Please feed the fish as much as they can eat and feed often and feed only the soaked food.The ich will return but once the fish are 'full of ' the garlic and selcon the ich will not attach. They will remain in the water so continue doing this for some time. If it returns catch it at the begging and continue treatment.
Good Luck

[Ryan]

If I dont see any improvment by the weekend I am treating with Copper.

[daddy01]

ryan,
I had ich outbreak awhile back while I was away for a week, and my son was babysitting.
What I did was lower Salinity to 1.02 (slowly) for a week, and feed Garlic and selcon then slowly raised the salinity. I havent' had ich since.
Jim

[sitandwatch]

When I had my ich issue I also feed garlic that I made myself, the funny thing is that after a feeding the tank, the water smelt like I was marinating my fish in garlic.

[Ryan]

Well 24 hours into the Garlic food and my skimmer has stopped building foam and my anemone has receded. Would this be because of the Garlic?

[i have crabs]

copper in a qt tank
dont waste your time buying cleaner shrimp or uv's that garbage does nothing for curing ich.
garlic is a good idea but dosent cure ich at all just helps the fish strengthen up to fight it off,


read some articles by people who know what they are talking about and make your own choices, seems that the boards always spit out the same garbage that dosent work and has been proven not to work many times
i think ich is a topic people dont quite grasp alot of the time