Marine Ich Treatment with Chloroquine Phospate

[spersky]

I have spent the last 2 days reading everything I can about Marine Ich. I have a newly setup 300 gallon reef aquarium. This is an upgrade from my 100 gallon reef aquarium. The stress of the move must have weakened the fish immune system. Anyway, I have a small 30 gallon QT for new arrivals, but not a large enough setup to run the aquarium fallow for 4 months. Since I am a physician, I am very well versed is microbiology and treatment vs eradication and immunity. Therefore in my extensive literature search I game across a recipe to add Chloroquine Phosphate to frozen fish food. The plan to feed this once a day to all the fish. I have 2 large carbon canisters and large protein skimmer and 57W UV-sterilizer. Hopefully this will inactivate and free water dosage of CP.

Here is the recipe I used 10mg of Chloroquine Phosphate to 1 gram of total food weight. This is somewhat less than the dosage I bought in a reputable textbook. The Marine Fish Health & Feeding Handbook

I called into the pharmacy a script for Chloroquine Phosphate 500 MG 10 tablets. It cost 50 dollars. You have to have a Doctor prescription, and your vet can do it. I crushed 5 tablets 2500mg total and mixed it with 186 grams of a new pack Rods frozen food flat pack with 100mg of plain clear gelatin. Which is 4 small packs of Knox Gelatin. Also, with 1 tablespoon of garlic extreme mixed in, I then froze the entire mix as a flat pack in a ziplock bag.

I will update on the cure, it should end the cycle because new parasites in the water column will not be able to establish a host thereby ending the cycle.

I will update the results.

Regards

 

[spersky]

First feeding with the medicated frozen food went well. A clown that is breathing pretty hard did not take a whole lot of it, but was able to consume some. The rest ate like pigs.

 

[Shanet]

Good luck with this approach, I usually dose the whole tank for 21 days and this does the trick. The only down side to this is you cannot have coral and snails in the tank and it kills all algae. I am supprised the fish eat the CP from all accounts I have read about feeding it, fish don't like the taste and some won't eat it. You just have to be sure all the fish eat it for a successful cure. Good luck with it.

 

[spersky]

I case anyone was wondering, It did not work. Fish are all in a treatment tank now

 

[snorvich]

CP and UV are mutually exclusive. Just FYI.

 

[NickinMS]

I am in the process of treating some fish with ich right now with CP. There are some good articles from Advanced Aquarist on CP and Ich. I'm using 56mg/gal in my QT tank for 2 weeks and no fish in the display tank for 5 weeks.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2013/2/fish

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/11/mini
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/12/mini
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/1/mini
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/2/mini
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/3/mini

 

[snorvich]

I am in the process of treating some fish with ich right now with CP. There are some good articles from Advanced Aquarist on CP and Ich. I'm using 56mg/gal in my QT tank for 2 weeks and no fish in the display tank for 5 weeks.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2013/2/fish

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/11/mini
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/12/mini
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/1/mini
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/2/mini
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/3/mini

I would go with 30 days of treatment and 72 days fallow for ich, 30 days fallow for velvet.

 

[rog2961]

i tried this way once and anthias couldnt handle it

 

[Batu]

I have used CP for years and it has been 100% successful every time. Far safer than Copper and easier on fish than trying to do hypo-salinity. Follow the directions on the medication and it will eliminate ICH quickly.

Inverts in the tank: Anemone and hermits were all unaffected by it.

You can order CP from here: http://www.nationalfishpharm.com/diseases.html
Medication from this site comes with great directions.

 

[ThRoewer]

Against which diseases can Chloroquine Phosphate being used and at what dosage.
I'm planning to stock up my fish pharmacy with antibiotics (Ciprofloxacin and Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole) and consider adding CP to the order.

 

[snorvich]

Against which diseases can Chloroquine Phosphate being used and at what dosage.
I'm planning to stock up my fish pharmacy with antibiotics (Ciprofloxacin and Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole) and consider adding CP to the order.

Best treatment for velvet. Also works well for ich with 30 days. Anecdotal experiences with brook. See this.

 

[Deinonych]

Against which diseases can Chloroquine Phosphate being used and at what dosage.
I'm planning to stock up my fish pharmacy with antibiotics (Ciprofloxacin and Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole) and consider adding CP to the order.

As Steve noted above, CP targets ich and velvet. Recommended dosage for both is 10mg/L (40mg/gal) for 30 days.

 

[tassod]

Can Prazipro be used with CP? I got an Emperor angel with white stringy poop and want to dose prazi to help with this.

 

[snorvich]

Can Prazipro be used with CP? I got an Emperor angel with white stringy poop and want to dose prazi to help with this.

I suggest you follow the link in this post to my blog.

 

[tassod]

I have used CP for years and it has been 100% successful every time. Far safer than Copper and easier on fish than trying to do hypo-salinity. Follow the directions on the medication and it will eliminate ICH quickly.

Inverts in the tank: Anemone and hermits were all unaffected by it.

You can order CP from here: http://www.nationalfishpharm.com/diseases.html
Medication from this site comes with great directions.

Anyone else have experiences with medications from this site? They seem to have a variety of products to treat a broad spectrum of diseases and parasites.

 

[macallum_chh]

hihi, may i know how much CP do you use for ich treatment on your fish?

 

[jbvdhp]

hihi, may i know how much CP do you use for ich treatment on your fish?

40 mg/gallon

 

[macallum_chh]

40 mg/gallon

yea, i did try using 40mg/gal before. but it turns out my fish died after 1 week.
do you buy the CP from vet ?

 

[Dmorty217]

yea, i did try using 40mg/gal before. but it turns out my fish died after 1 week.
do you buy the CP from vet ?

New life spectrum makes ich shield powder if you don't want to go to the local vet for a script. I would imagine the "CP" you used at 40mg/gallon wan't pure CP. I am using CP at 60mg/Gallon for ich right now with two heniocus and 2 venustus angels. At 40mg/g fish were still showing signs of ich

 

[macallum_chh]

New life spectrum makes ich shield powder if you don't want to go to the local vet for a script. I would imagine the "CP" you used at 40mg/gallon wan't pure CP. I am using CP at 60mg/Gallon for ich right now with two heniocus and 2 venustus angels. At 40mg/g fish were still showing signs of ich

yeah, i was thinking that maybe my CP wasnt pure as you mentioned. my 2 yellow tang just died because of ich. i think i should increase the dose to 60mg/gallon . thank you so much for the advice .