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Somehow my fish have contracted ICK. :mad:
They where fine last night and then suddenly today they are covered with white dots. :cry: :(
Anyway, I am currently dosing them with Garlic. I put two pieces of garlic in my tank. Hopefully this will get rid of it. :(
 
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I took Sherris advice. I did not know we could just float garlilc in our tanks though......tell me more about it
 
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no, grinded it. hehe
Then I threw it in my tank along with food. They ate it all. I think I got italian fish.
 
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LOL i must have a strain of nosferatu because my fish were not very happy with me after i did that to them.
 
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I used Kick-Ich and it knocked it out of the park.... Trust me, get some... Kenny stocks it at AC. I also garliced up the food, plumbed in my "spare" 15W UV sterilizer, and ran the tank hypo-saline (1.018) for about a week. ONE of these things worked :)
 
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did you add any new fish recently? it may be the cause.
otherwise, the sudden ick outbreak may be due to a large pH change (any big water change? large carbon replacement? kalk dosing?) or way overfeeding esp. with rich nutrient stuffs like golden pearls, cyclopeze, etc..
 
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Wildfire said:
I used Kick-Ich and it knocked it out of the park.... Trust me, get some... Kenny stocks it at AC. I also garliced up the food, plumbed in my "spare" 15W UV sterilizer, and ran the tank hypo-saline (1.018) for about a week. ONE of these things worked :)
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Will this kill my inverts? I have alot of shrimps, crabs, urchins, cucumbers and corals
 
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The results on Kick Ich are mixed. You'll have to buy about $40-50 worth to do a whole treatment. I have tried it and it did nothing but lighten my wallet.
 
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i tried Kick Ick once in the past w/ my fish only tank.. it didn't help; in fact, it made the fishes more stressed - may be i overdosed it a little bit.
if you plan on using it, give me all of those nice sps frags/ colonies that you acquired recently before u kill them with kick ick - just j/k :)
 
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HolyBanana said:
Yeah I added a new fish recently. :(
I think hes the culprit. :(
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How large is the tank that is now infested? What is your fish load like? What new fish did you add to the tank?

I have been through this nightmare before. It is truely that....a nightmare. I have tried Kick Ick in the past, but have never had any luck and, as was stated earlier, the only thing I got out of it was a lighter wallet. I have had more luck with garlic.

I mince the garlic very finely and add it to the thawing food. I let the food soak in the garlic for a couple of hours so that the garlic permeates the food. The fish don't have to eat the garlic directly. They get the garlic benefits from the soaked food. If they eat the garlic (as some of my tangs and my flame angel will) that is even better.

The main cause of ick, at least in my experience, is stress. Adding a new fish to an already highly populated system has been my downfall a couple of times.

Jim 8)
 
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My tank is 100 gal.
I have about 11 fish in there.
The culprit is an achilles tang that I added recently. :(
I fed them garlic, they ate it. Hopefully they will get better. Last time I had ick, garlic did the trick. Then again the outbreak was not as bad as this. Its going to be a real pain to get all those fish out of my tank with 250 lbs of live rock everywhere. :(
 
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One of these days you all will come around and see how much better (and stress free) an ultra light bio-load is. Jaime shouldn't you blame it on the Tampa Bay rock instead of the tang.
 
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ha! sure the rock is to blame.
I blame me more than anyone for not being patient enough and quarantining him for 6 weeks.
I dont think my bioload is too high. more than half of my fish are small and they are either bottom feeders or rock dwellers.
The larger fish like to school together, besides the two angels that like to in and out of the rocks like it was some type of playground.
They even have a carwash area where the fish go in and the cleaner shrimps clean them one by one. Its hilarious.
My water has been 0 ammonia, 0 nitrates and 0 phosphates. It has been this way for a while. It might be the amoung of rocks and sand and the heavy skimming along with the refugium with micro algea that keeps the water parameters low. Not to mention all the clean up crew that does an excellent job of eating anything that hits the bottom uneaten. :D

Anyhow, the benefits of also having a FO tank is that I can transfer some over there whenever its ready (2 more weeks to go) :D
Oh well, if this ick is not gone by Thursday, I will have to go thru the pain and catching them all.
I would hate to lose any of my fish. Everyone of them have their own personality. However I think im done with fish in my reef tank.
Any new fish will be going to my FO tank.
 
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I didn't say your bio-load was high I was just commenting on the less fish you have the and the smaller they are the less work and pain your tank is. In the last 2 months I have not used the mag float once on my 65G.
 
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HolyBanana said:
My tank is 100 gal.
I have about 11 fish in there.
The culprit is an achilles tang that I added recently. :(
I fed them garlic, they ate it. Hopefully they will get better. Last time I had ick, garlic did the trick. Then again the outbreak was not as bad as this. Its going to be a real pain to get all those fish out of my tank with 250 lbs of live rock everywhere. :(
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You are exactly right. The culprit is the Achilles tang. These are gorgeous fish but they do not ship well, they are tremendously ich prone, and since they are fast and long distance swimmers they can definitely aggravate the other fish in a new system. That is what has occurred here.

I only know of very few people (all rumored) to have been able to keep an Achilles alive for any real duration. They are a very troublesome fish. Good luck.

Jim 8)
 
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Jaime,

I add garlic to the acclimation water once the fish has been acclimated and is ready to go in the tank. I'm not convinced that feeding garlic to the tank is more efficacious than applying it topically through dispersion in the water in active cases of ich. The most potent antimicrobial compounds in garlic begin to lose potency very quickly after about an hour of the garlic being crushed, so be sure to soak/steep your garlic (ideally) in tank water for no more than 30 minutes before adding to the tank.

~ Sherri
 
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