ginger for ich??

[Sleepy22]

anyone ever try it??......my tangs jus got ich and they are still small enough to hide in the rock work and I don't want to pull all my rock out to catch and treat them..its been jus about 3 days since I 1st noticed it and no other fish has it.......only new thing in the tank is the maxspect gyre.....I did buy a bluespot jawfish about 5 weeks ago but it died within 2 days

if I have to then I will just end up selling everything and starting all over again this summer with a smaller setup(I really don't want to do this since I have had great success wth this current setup so far)

 

[lynchmob3000]

Sounds like the jaw fish brought in something nasty. I have a fish trap you can borrow so you don't have to pull everything out!

 

[Sleepy22]

really thanx.......I'm going to give this powdered ginger thing a try...its supposed 2 show results within 24hrs.....I will let you know how this goes

 

[lynchmob3000]

Gl! Selcon and garlic for sure

 

[Fiver]

Tank transfer method. My royal gramma caught it and died. My clowns and blenny had no signs of ich. Ich is there even if the spots go away. New fish will catch it, as was the case in my tank. Good luck.

 

[pinnatus]

No. Will not work. There are some ways that do work. Copper, hyposalinity, Tank Transfer method. Research in the disease thread. Don't waste your time with ginger.

 

[Maritimer]

Ginger is amazing!

With sushi and wasabi.

In our tanks? Anything that'll kill ich will also kill your reef. Ginger won't kill your reef, but it also won't kill ich.

~Bruce, whose DT currently has no fish in it. They're all in QT across the room . . .

 

[Sleepy22]

it probably wont kill it but it certainly did something....my powder blue has no white dots on it whatsoever(only scars from where he had it) and the blue tang only has about half of what it had yesterday......I will continue to sprinkle some in the tank and mix with food for a few days and keep everyone updated

 

[lynchmob3000]

Shoot man that's good to hear!

 

[scuzy]

ginger for ich??

Remember even with no signs of ich it could be in the gills and it could of fell off the fish to the substrates for the next stage of ich cycle.

 

[hnnhflns]

Remember even with no signs of ich it could be in the gills and it could of fell off the fish to the substrates for the next stage of ich cycle.

exactly, it sounds like with the timeline you have given, the ich parasites have just moved to the life cycle stage where they lay eggs in the sand and rocks. In a few weeks you will have a resurgence in the ich.

I have seen, and tried, many ich remedies. As most people know, we have over 2 dozen tangs, so we monitor for ich extremely well. The only long term solutions that I have found for ich are:

1. Uv/Ozone Sterilizer: the uv radiation kills anything that is exposed to it in the chamber. Ich is one of the hardest things to kill, so you need a very slow flow through the UV chamber. While it does not remove all life stages of ich from the tank, it kills the free-floating parasite before it can attach to the fish.

2. Fallow Tank and QT: take all the fish out of the tank for 90 days (this is 2-3 life-cycles of the parasite), this will starve the parasites to death. Then return the fish to the tank. Fish that are coming into the system from anywhere else must be QT for several months as well. During QT, run the tank with hyposalinity, and medications such as prazi pro and Cu.

Ich is not a direct result of water quality, it is a parasite. SO having good water parameters does not protect you from an ich outbreak.

 

[Sleepy22]

well so far so good...I been gone since sunday afternoon and haven't fed anything in those days of absence.....blue tang did get some more white spots but everything else is doing fine so far

 

[Saltwater newby]

well so far so good...I been gone since sunday afternoon and haven't fed anything in those days of absence.....blue tang did get some more white spots but everything else is doing fine so far

Any news regarding your fish and the ginger method??

 

[Sleepy22]

I lost my tangs, ruby red dragonet, and clown......everything else is doing fine so not 100% sure if it was even ich since all the other fish are ok with no signs of anything....i quit putting in ginger almost 2 weeks ago cuz it was making the skimmer go crazy (overflowing so i had to turn off for a few hours a day)