Let's Kick the ich out of my tang (1 Viewer)

[eraser2001]

I want to share with all of you my experience with the ich. One of my tangs got ich one week ago. This Chevron tang has 7 month with me and he got ich after all this time. One option was remove from my tang and put in QT other option was medicate my tank with some products reef safe, but I chose to feed him with live brine shrimp,garlic and metronidazole
This is the recipe
I bought 2 oz of live brine shrimp in a pts

I used an empy frozen food container for put all the ingredients

Garlic and metronidazole

I filled the container with garlic

Put some metronidazole and mixe with garlic

Then I filled the containers with live brine and put more garlic

I just left this night outside, because I need that live brine absorb all the garlic and metronidazole.
All my fish had one week eating this recipe and my tang looks better
Thanks

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[Nick]

First of all thank you for sharing your experience and what you are doing to try to fix the problem. I think it is awesome when people post about this topic. I have had issues with ich before and it seems different people believe different things work. For me I have used the tank transfer method and it has worked so far. Definitely keep your thread updated so we know how it turns out. There are a few research papers by different universities on Ich and the treatment of it. Good luck!

 

[Nick]

Any updates?

 

[tthouston]

I hate ICH, ICH kill my fishes and I waste lot of time to treat the fish. I don't want ICH in my tank any more by treatment my tank and my fish at QT and I am very very careful to add more fish.

First option: Transfer metal to treat your fish: 5 times, 3 days for each time but you need cycled water for each transfer and you can not use water from DT because your DT had ICH so that is you big problem to do this metal.

Second option: Hypo salinity treatment, you can use your saltwater from DT then add more RO/DI water down to 1.008-1.009, then put all your fish in there (You don't need slowly down as normal, your fishes will be fine with that) BUT you will have another issue about ammonia and Nitrite after 2 weeks???? you can water change with new saltwater mix to reduce ammonia but you can not do that with nitrite!!!! Fishes start die at this time so you have to find the best way to pass this step. Other way to treatment by Hyposalinity with safety way is your QT has to pass cycle time before treat your fish with Hyposalinity. Cooper is same way as hypo as 30 days treatment at QT.

You need read more information about ICH then you will realize you can't treat ICH in your DT with coral. Good Luck

 

[Fish Keeper82]

The problem with Ich is only one stage of its life cycle is visible by sight and that is when it is on the fish. It has a couple more stages which include when it falls off the fish ,cysts in subtrate, hatches, then looks for new fish host to start the cycle over again.
So to actually eliminate Ich you have to isolate the fish to a QT tank and treat with either hypo, copper, or TTM. Then let the Display tank stay fallow ( without fish) for 72 days to let the cycts hatch and die looking for a new host . I belive this was in the high 90's percentage of elimination (98% i think it was dont quote me on it).
You have to break the cycle not treat the fish alone. If only fish treatment is done and it heals up Ich is still in the tank and will pop up again. Remeber just because the fish shows no signs of ich does not mean its not there.
Ich can also come in thru your live rock and corals if there are Ich cysts on it although much less likely.
I just use TTM since its less stressfull on the fish and is easily done before adding to the DT.