ICH

[Taddster]

Ok...

If i don't use copper then what do I use? It will be nearly impossible to catch these fish and quarentine them. So, i am placing my anemones and peice of Xenia (my only known inverts excluding anything on my live rock) in another tank.

They have stuff on the market i saw that is invert safe which treats ich....but i am hearing horror stories of the next batch of ich that will arise within the next week or so.

I have so much going on right now this is the last thing I need. Please help with some ideas if you can.

[tbmoore]

Personaly when I had ich long ago I tried chem and they did more harm than good.....killed some stuff....I then purchased a uv from Rich at progresive.....fed garlic soaked food...added cleaner shrimp and no more ich......been couple of yrs now with no ich....still run the uv and cleaner shrimp.....

[Snakeman]

My fish get ich form time to time, I just feed them garlic soaked food, and ginger. It just takes a few day and the ick will be gone.l

[Snakeman]

I did get a uv filter too.

[NM354]

uv's will work but i don't sugest them to be run all the time on a reef tank.

[tbmoore]

I run the UV the same as I do my filter bag ....only on a sidestream to polish the water...I have two drains and run the filter bag only on one and two return pumps and I run the uv on one of those.

[Taddster]

The cleaner wrasse has done an incredible job getting the ich off the fish. The cleaner shrimp really cannot be bothered with anything. Too bad



Pete

[Taddster]

Well, the black spot on the tangs and the ich on everything else has come back full force. The cleaner shrimp do not do anything and the wrasse cannot be bothered. I will buy kick ich this weekend. In the meantime, I am using RxP (pepper treatment) in my tank.

This sucks big time...

Pete