Possible ich??

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Gujustud

The only thing is that he still doesn't seem to be eating the food when I put it in the tank. Maybe he eats it later, but not when I'm there. Is that normal?

If the fish isn't eating the food you are feeding it, I suspect it was eating something else at the lfs. Find out what it was eating there and feed it the same food, without the garlic at first. Once it gets used to eating the food it was eating at the lfs, add a small amount of garlic to the food. Then increase the amount so that the garlic is overwhelming.

I still don't have faith in the garlic method, but since my H-tank has not yet cycled, I'm giving it an honest, thorough try. I feed my ick fish, which are two 2" fairy wrasses and a 3" angelfish, PE mysis. For one tablespoon of food, I use 10-12 drops of Garlic Xtreme and a about half teaspoon of Kent Zoe. Half the food is consumed in the morning feeding, the other half is refridgerated until the afternoon feeding. The pm feeding mysis must be REALLY saturated with garlic by then

I will continue feeding this garlic/mysis concoction for the next six weeks, or until the H-tank has cycled. If the ick does not affect the fish for six weeks in the display tank, I will deem the garlic method a success..... but not until then.