So confused..ich or not??? Help

[daniella3d]

If you do not do a proper treatment, you will always have ich in your tank. It's going to come and go and any new addition that will be stressed might trigger a new outburst of ick.

The best is to remove all of your fish and treat them all, then leave your main tank without fish for 6 weeks or so. That's the only way you are going to be free of ich, or you will have to endure this every now and then.

If you ever use Cupramine, make sure you do not use any water treatment like Prime as it will bind with the amine in Cupramine and release the copper into a toxic form.

Another treatment could be Seachem paraguard and it's quite safe but not for the coral or invert. To be done in a quarantine tank. But at least you could have some liverock in there and have a decent water quality. With copper you cannot put any liverock and ammonia can build up quite fast so this must be checked each day, preferably twice a day.

[Coralgurl]

I realize this leaves the ich in the tank. I've already said why I close this method, I feel it's the best choice right now. The fish are already sick, stressing them more is not going to help right now.

To top it off, my nem has decided to relocate, all power heads are covered but this is restricting water flow. Anyone has a suggestion on a good netting product? Tried a fish net and now have nylons covering them.

[Cal_stir]

Sorry about your Coral Beauty, the garlic keeps them eating and boosts their ammune system, keep your skimmer running, add garlic right to the tank as well as the food, make the tank smell like garlic. I went through this about a month ago, no losses, you can get through this!
And yes, reef safe remedies do not work.

[Coralgurl]

Thanks, I liked the cb a lot but she was def the sickest. I dont know when it started to affect her so treating and feeding was probably too late. The skimmer is back on. One more feeding tonight, still going to treat, it doesn't hurt to continue to try. Glad to hear you made it through with no losses!

[Cal_stir]

Thanks, we have 20 fish, all had it to some degree, yellow tang was completely covered and royal gramma had spots in its mouth, did the fresh garlic for a week, whole house smelled, absolutely no sign of it now and I think Tang looks better now than ever. Good Luck.

[Coralgurl]

Yep, my tank smells as well, using 1/2 clove per batch of food I've been mixing up. Thankfully I'm off for a few days so can really keep an eye on things!

[Coralgurl]

Well I'm starting to remove my fish to the qt today. I finally noticed ich on my chromis today so I don't think things are getting better. Treatment on herbtana is 10 days, today is day 8. My tank is a mess now, sand looks gross, I think this is detris? Anyway, so far I've got the blenny out, he didn't care about the net and was the easiest to catch. I'm going to pull the rock out into tubs and catch the rest, will start copper tomorrow as I need a test kit for it first. I also need to restock water for wc, I only got 10 gl left, got a batch ready to go once I pull the fish out.

None of the other fish except the blenny are showing they are having issues with the ich but they do not look like they are getting any better either. I hope this works.

[Gripenfelter]

I would invest in a good uv sterilizer while you're at it.