kick ich

[luisprado]

Has anyone ever tried this? What has been your experience for those that have tried this?

The reason I ask, is because I tried this and it affected my corals. A lot of them got stressed out and bleached. Right now I am not a very happy camper. I have been maintaining a reef tank for 1 year now and now I got ich for the first time and I treated with this stuff and it screwed up my corals.

 

[coralGoodie]

It didn't work when I used it years ago.

 

[wsun083]

do you have a QT tank? A few of my fish have had ich, and i've just placed them in a different tank and lowered the salinity. That worked wonders for my blue tang.

 

[CW from the OC]

I recently used kick ick, and I slightly overdosed it.

It didn't seem to affect my corals, and it did nothing to my ick either. I just spent the day setting up a 70 gal QT tank and draining my display to get the fish out.

 

[yoyoyoo123]

hmmmm, maybe your kick ich was expired or something?

I've used it in a tank full of clams, SPS, anemone, zoas, LPS, etc will no ill effects to anything except the ich.

 

[luisprado]

I never thought about it being expired since I just purchased it for that purporse. That would suck though. Can my corals become healthy again? I haven't experienced this yet and I want to make sure these corals come back to their original color.

 

[Badmort]

Did you get that from PTF.. You know I saw you there today.... I was lurking lol

 

[luisprado]

LOL! Yeah Steve sold it me. Said it was reefsafe and would get the job done. However. ich took my 2 fish and somehow managed to stress out my corals.

 

[coralGoodie]

what I used was malachite green in a QT. It works great. You could see the difference.

 

[JFish180]

I've heard that kick ich is hit or miss, depending on the particular strain of ich your fish have. I tried it on a FOWLR a couple of years ago and it didn't help at all - I lost most of my fish. Quarantine w/ hyposalinity works great for me.

 

[garod82]

I wouldn't buy it, for me it was a waste of $50 cuz they tell you to buy 2 different things.