Best treatment for ICH (reef safe)?????

[beto01]

Hello, i am using polyp lab medic, but it is not working!

Please help!

thanks

 

[Chris27]

Contrary to what many hope to be true, there isn't a "reef safe" treatment - do consider removing the fish to a QT to treat with copper or hyposalinity. The benefits of having to keep a fish in QT for a few weeks far outweigh the consequences of allowing the parasite to take up shop in your DT.

 

[inthesea]

In my experience, everytime I take the fish out of the DT to QT them they have always died due to stress. If the fish are eating, leave them in there and feed them good. The fish will develop resistance to ich and will be able to fight it off. If its not eatig then you got to get them out.
I have had fish in my tank for a year and a half without ich to develop ich if the parms in the tank go down.

 

[krowleey]

In my experience, everytime I take the fish out of the DT to QT them they have always died due to stress. If the fish are eating, leave them in there and feed them good. The fish will develop resistance to ich and will be able to fight it off. If its not eatig then you got to get them out.
I have had fish in my tank for a year and a half without ich to develop ich if the parms in the tank go down.

that is horrible advice!!!! the best thing you can do is remove them and put into a QT tank, and perform hyposalinity or copper treatment. the chance of losing fish due to moving them to ich is apples and oranges.

 

[wooden_reefer]

In my experience, everytime I take the fish out of the DT to QT them they have always died due to stress. If the fish are eating, leave them in there and feed them good. The fish will develop resistance to ich and will be able to fight it off. If its not eatig then you got to get them out.
I have had fish in my tank for a year and a half without ich to develop ich if the parms in the tank go down.

Even if an individual fish at first has certain resistance against ich, once heavy infestation has taken place on it or any of its tank mates, the whole idea of resistance is quite unreliable at least, useless may be.

The confinement of a tank, the lack of dilution effect of the ocean, would dominate the spread of ich. Ed Kingsford called the phenomenon superinfection, I think.

 

[rholguin]

I have experinced 2 ich outbreaks in my tank, The fist time I let them be and just fed heavily. My fish never stopped eating but the infestion got real bad and they all died. This time around I did not hesitate and took the fish out and are being treated with cuprimene and all fish are looking good. Lessen learned always qt new fish and always be ready to treat sick fish. Good luck.

 

[inthesea]

I might me wrong, but has always worked for me. I had a Naso in one of my tanks for about 6 months, he was qt before he was added to the tank and was the only fish in the tank. One day I come home and he was covered in ich, found out the tank had overheated. So where did the ICH come from, when the tank was ich free and he was qt for 8 weeks before he was added to the tank?

 

[wooden_reefer]

So where did the ICH come from, when the tank was ich free and he was qt for 8 weeks before he was added to the tank?

Likely ineffective QT or some history of the tank that is not disclosed.

Was there continuous treatment during the eight weeks and not any "observation"?

 

[krowleey]

I might me wrong, but has always worked for me. I had a Naso in one of my tanks for about 6 months, he was qt before he was added to the tank and was the only fish in the tank. One day I come home and he was covered in ich, found out the tank had overheated. So where did the ICH come from, when the tank was ich free and he was qt for 8 weeks before he was added to the tank?

did you do any treatments in QT? hypo? copper? did you add wet things to your DT during that time? corals? rock? anything?