Best way to treat ICH (1 Viewer)

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What is the best product to treat ICH? Surely someone here has treated ICH before. Please specify whether you have personally used the product or if you heard of a guy that knows a guys that treated with a certain product.

 

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It seems as though I didn't notice that quite a lot of my fish have these spots. Do I need to buy multiple hospital tanks...I imagine I will since it looks like 6-7 of my fish have white spots.

 

[toefu]

the solution is quite simple and not simple at the same time. The treatment is copper. Copper will kill ich easily. The problem is, copper will kill all of your corals and make your display tank non-reef safe for a long time. You will need to be able to catch all your fish that are infected (easier said than done). Put them in hospital tanks and hope they don't die from the stress + ich in this process. In many cases, the fish are so badly infected they die from all the stress, since they are already weak from ich.

Some will swear by reefsafe remedies, while others call it a hoax. You'll get a million different opinions on reef-safe medications

A more natural and reef-safe approach is to do a a water change every 3-4 days, and dip all food in garlic. Garlic merely improves the fish's immune system and hopes that the fish can fight off the disease itself. The water changes is a hope in lowering nitrates and poor water quality to give the fish the best shot. This theory runs on the principle that allowing them to stay in the "reef" keeps their stress level at their lowest, and gives the fish their best chance.

Which solution you choose is up to you, good luck.

 

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I've been reading...and reading...and reading...and, well you get the point. I come to the conclusion there is no 100% ich killing reef safe, dummy proof, bad ********* solution to this. So, to start, I will do the water changes along with FRESH garlic. I've heard garlic works great and others say people are morons for using it. Since I will be using this along with water changes, I will document the progress/demise of my tank. If it looks as though it is working I will continue. Saying that, I will try not to be fooled by thinking the turds are gone when they have only fallen off into the substrate to spawn again. If this does not work, I will be using a/a few hospital tanks and employ the hyposalinity approach.

As Sun Tzu once said, "I'm Ricky Bobby and if you don't chew Big Red then F#$K you."

 

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BTW, I've also heard that a chemical in garlic kills parasites.It's like A--something. Don't remember the source so don't ask.

 

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Changed my mind. Bought a UV sterilizer. It'll be here tomorrow. Case closed...I hope.

 

[Mark L.]

the solution is quite simple and not simple at the same time. The treatment is copper. Copper will kill ich easily. The problem is, copper will kill all of your corals and make your display tank non-reef safe for a long time. You will need to be able to catch all your fish that are infected (easier said than done). Put them in hospital tanks and hope they don't die from the stress + ich in this process. In many cases, the fish are so badly infected they die from all the stress, since they are already weak from ich.

Some will swear by reefsafe remedies, while others call it a hoax. You'll get a million different opinions on reef-safe medications

A more natural and reef-safe approach is to do a a water change every 3-4 days, and dip all food in garlic. Garlic merely improves the fish's immune system and hopes that the fish can fight off the disease itself. The water changes is a hope in lowering nitrates and poor water quality to give the fish the best shot. This theory runs on the principle that allowing them to stay in the "reef" keeps their stress level at their lowest, and gives the fish their best chance.

Which solution you choose is up to you, good luck.

I agree with this completely. Early on when my tank was fairly new my fish broke out with a bad case of ick. I chose to do water changes, add garlic to their food, and just tried to keep them calm and not stressed. The fish that had it the worst and was pretty unhealthy did die but all the others recovered nicely. I believe the one that died was the one that brought it in also. I didn't have him very long before the plague hit. I've been ick free since.

 

[emixa]

I have used kent garlic extract with my fish food and it has helped. The main question is why did you get ich. What are your parameters? What fish got ich first? Could it be your tank conditions stressing your fish? Maybe too many delicate fish? Just stuff to think about. New gadgets are awesome, victim of that here, but do you really need them. Like I said, my 2 centavos.

 

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My tank turned into a Battle Royale when I added my Chevron. I think that was the root of the problem.

 

[TiAg]

Try the garlic too, the fish devour the food. I use ground up shrimp from the store soaked in garlic as a treat every so often and the fish go absolutely crazy for it.

 

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I'll try that tomorrow night

 

[ReefMaster32787]

Also I have a cleaner shrimp that I must say may have changed the tide in my ich outbreak. He was constantly picking the "white spots" off the clowns and even helped my athias when the lady at the fish store dropped him. All in all I think "cleaner shrimp +1"

 

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I've got 2 banded shrimp, do they count?

 

[darbex]

No cleaner shrimp are different. I use a three pronged approach to fight it and prevention. Cleaner shrimp, UV, water changes and that's it. If they are eating then you are good. Once the stop start adding garlic to entice them to eat.

 

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They eat like every meal is the last.

 

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How do you know how far to trim the flow back on your UV sterilizer to make sure it is sterilizing and not just cleaning.

 

[darbex]

Google it. I know there is a range of GPH that it will kill bacteria and a slower rate to kill Ich just can't remember. I have mine running super slow

 

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Funny you say that, I went and got a valve and stuck it on to trim the flow back. Slowed it to 300-400 I hope.