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[BC564]

I have a cleaner wrasse in my tank that seems to kick the crap out of ick. A the fish take there turn and visit him for routine check ups.....its quite strange to watch.....the wrasse is almost always in the front right corner..and they come to him just like we would go to a doctor.....

[Salmon King]

I have a 255 gal fish only tank besides the 2 reef.I have delt with ich since the beggining in this hobby for 14 years.There is no ich on these angels at all in the reef tank for 4 days after the power outage. These fish were loaded with it as my local fish store manager wittnessed. When You have ich it does not dissapear one day and show up the next.It is on the fish always.I new it was going to be a battle to save them and a hassle to rip apart a 135 with a hundred corral in it.As I said this could be a good exsperiment for some one mybe me

[Aquattro]

Rob, you may want to try garlic. Works great for me.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Salmon King

next time I cook spagetti I will try it

You won't be sorry, I had that for dinner. You also won't have any ich. I'm surprised that after so many years of doing this you haven't caught on to the garlic thing. I'll show you how to do it next time I'm over.
It's also good in butter on toasted bread.

[SeaShell]

I feed garlic when my fish have ich.... Is there another trick?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by SeaShell

I feed garlic when my fish have ich.... Is there another trick?

Just different ways of feeding it. I mush it into mostly oil and soak it all up with some nori. Works for me, although I've only had ich twice.

And mostly I'm bugging Rob, 'cause he thinks we're all crazy

[SeaShell]

Nooooooo! I believe in garlic! But you know... it's not fun kissing fish with garlic breath.

[wickedfrags]

IME - the best way to ensure you never get ick again is to better control your temperature fluctuations. The thermostats on your heaters are junk. - don't you just hate seeing them ON when you want the temp to go down??? With a proper temperature controller your fish are much less likely to get ick. Worth the money IMO.

[cav~firez22]

i thought garlic was just to entice fish to eat... interesting.

on the other hand, seachems product of garlic extract works pretty well. next time i will just buy garlic extract instead of the 20$/bottle from seachem.