Ick Treatment poll

[jesspaul]

I would like to do a poll of successful and non-successful ick treatments please chose from the following:


Treated tank with meds and the disease stopped killing fish

Treated tank with meds and some fish died but the rest are ok

Treated tank with meds and everything died from the disease

Treated tank with meds and everything died from the treatment


Quarantined and treated fish and it lived

Quarantined and treated fish and it died but the rest of the tank was OK

Quarantined and treated fish and it died and the infection was not stopped


Added a UV sterilizer and it helped

Added a UV sterilizer and it helped eventually

Added a UV sterilizer and it did not help


Treated the fish food with Garlic & vitamin C and all fish lived

Treated the fish food with Garlic & vitamin C and some fish lived but the sickest died

Treated the fish food with Garlic & vitamin C and all the fish died


Did nothing and things got better

Did nothing and nothing changed

Did nothing and things got worse


Did some water changes and tank chores and things got better

Did some water changes and tank chores and it didn’t help

Did some water changes and tank chores and things got worse

[lfish]

treated food with garlic and fish lived.

[Phishnoob]

If ich is in your tank let it sit for a few weeks without a fish. UV with Selcon and Garlic and no tainted new fish worked for us. Oh yeah...stress is a killer for fish (and for us guys that work every dang day and die at age 60) and that will bring out the little white dots.

[yardboy]

Added two cleaner shrimp and Treated the fish food with Garlic & vitamin C and all fish lived.

[salt creepette]

on one occasion, treated with hyposalinity method (fish in quarantine tank because inverts cant handle hyposalinity); on another occasion, that was unsuccessful and did the transfer method. on both occasions, fed garlic and vitamin soaked foods and tried to subject them to as little stress and as good of water quality as I could. I have never used any medication or additive to treat ich in my main reef tank.

[hankstanks]

Garlic helps them get through it IMO.

Cleaner Shirmp are a Must in my opinion for Reef keeping without a Hospital tank to Qt the fish in. The downside is that you have to feed them before you feen anything else or they trample over all the corals and climb up your arm and pull the hair out while you try to target feed the corals. But heck, they are soo fun to watch!

[reiple]

strange. same here. Garlic in their food and no more new fish saved my hippo tang, fox face and fairy wrasse. However ich killed all clowns and a lamarck angel. I believe the ich came from a clown.

BTW why is it symptoms of ich never show on my Starry Moray eel? hmmm