ick on hippo blue tang

[mark]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Mark, I think my point is let the fish manage it. Healthy stress-free fish can do this all by themselves. The trick is to keep the fish healthy and stress free. Every tang I ever added got ich for day or two, then went away. In my last tank, "went away" meant for years.

New additions often get ich. If the whole tank of fish get ich, then there is something wrong with the tank, and wiping out this indicator with chemicals isn't fixing the root cause.

Help the new addition with added nutrition (with garlic) and they'll settle in fine.

Brad, totally understand what your saying, got a Regal that showed a couple spots last year. Was considering setting up a long term QT for all my fish, ripping apart the display to catch them, but then after the spots disappearing after a day or so and nothing since never bothered.

Not to bait Naesco but back to the OP, what size of tank and how long you had the fish?

[fishguy007]

i am using garlic. looks like the ick goes away and then comes right back. been going on for about a week. i just want it to go away for good.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

There have been some good suggestions here already. In order to get rid of the parasite permanently, the fish (all of them) will need to be removed to quarantine and treated (as already mentioned, so I won't bother going into detail).

Having said that, and like it's already been mentioned, that's not necessarily necessary. I have had several fish which seemed to have very minor cases of ich, but with a healthy, varied diet, as well as fostering a community of fish that complement each other (not placing extremely aggressive species with more docile, "community" species, etc.), these symptoms should not continue to reappear.

What are all the other inhabitants in your aquarium? And can you give some more details of your system?

[naesco]

Originally Posted by fishguy007

i am using garlic. looks like the ick goes away and then comes right back. been going on for about a week. i just want it to go away for good.

Are you stopping the garlic treatment after you see the ich go away?
You must continue the garlic treatment until the ich does not return.
As mentioned add selcon from time to time and buying a cleaner shrimp is good as well.