AHHHH!!! I have Ich

[dkcrx]

Originally Posted by dabandit

I have heard though that increasing the number of shrimp in your tank will induce more active behavior and less hiding.

true, the more the beter, they will set up a cleaning station that your fish will practicly line up for, "depending on the size of fish".

[dkcrx]

Also you can try a new product from zeovit, Dan at Aquatic Addictions can tell you what it's called, seems to work great and all you do is mix it in your fishs food befor you feed.

[untamed]

I have a number of cleaner shrimp and the fish love to be cleaned. It is a daily evening ritual for most all of the fish.

However...the cleaner shrimp do NOT do a very good job of removing the ich parasites and I would not suggest that this is a cure in any way. In fact, I'm not even sure that it even helps in any way.

I am in a similar situation. My achilles tang has shown signs of ich for nearly years now, but it is getting worse of late and I'm concerned.

[chris121277]

Well the ich is winning
I've lost the Coral Beauty and the Powder Brown Tang

How do I do a fresh water dip?
want to try that on my Clown and Foxface

I'm feading garlic, got the temp up to 82deg and using Paracide Green, they just keep getting worse.

Very frustrating

[fkshiu]

Most people learn to live with ich. All those home remedies of garlic, cleaner shrimp, UV etc probably help keep ich in a chronic low level state within a tank. You're happy as long as you don't see the spots - which are only a visible symptom of the parasite infection. However, once the infection gets serious and fish start dropping left and right your only course of action if you want to save any fish is to remove either all the fish or all the live rock/inverts and start hyposalinity and/or copper treatment. These are the only two things that are scientifically proven to KILL ich (crytocaryon irritans).

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