ich

[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.

[Salmon King]

Brad I have only delt with ich at least 50 times.This was a really bad case of it.Can u explain how it dissapeared in 6hrs.

[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.

[howdy20012002]

garlic will not kill ich. All garlic does is entice them to eat...which gives the fish a better chance of fighting off the ich.
even copper just causes irritation to the fish which causes the fish to produce more of a slim coat...thus making it more difficult for the ich to host on the fish...copper at the low concentration that fish can tolerate will not kill the parasite.
besides leaving your tank empty for a month, Hypsolanity is the only way to kill the ich as far as I am concerned.
the parasite is not able to deal with the reduced pressure and literally explod.
I have a hard time believing that no power or water movement killed ich.
by that premise, no fish should have ich when I bring it in from the states as they are without power or water movement for over 24 hours. however, I always have at least one ich outbreak of ich each shipment.
Not sure what caused the ich to die off, but in my opinion, it was not the lack of power.