<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6244536#post6244536 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cduran02
The way I see it, this product serves a purpose. A person who uses it will spend a lot of money and find out it doesnt work and do one of two things: 1) Learn from the mistake and never do it again 2) get out of the hobby. Both of these are good outcomes, #2 is good becuause someone who is willing to blindly put something into their aquarium should not be in the hobby.
So If I'm willing to try a product, I fall into your two categories?
Come on guys, those are the type of comments that bring on some nasties and some bad feelings.
Okay guys, since I revived this thread, lets make sure that it stays as a discussion thread
Anthony,
I actually welcomed you when you came in with Jim to Atlantis last year for NERAC, I was manning the registration booth.
Hopefully this gives me a smidge of creadence above wacko & I'm not a one post wonder such as farmboy or utterback that some were referring to. I'm also not providing a testimonial, just a discussion that I am trying the product. Whether it works or not, is yet to be seen.
A large concern is whether the product is "reef safe". I might not have $10Ks in corals, but it's in the thousands mark. I also mentioned how Kick-Ick affected my acros (most likely the nitroimidazole reagents) and that the product was advertised to be "reef safe". Why I tried this in my reef tank is beyond me (especially since I told myself that the tank will never see Kick-Ick again), but I did try it. In the 3 weeks that I have dosed it, I have not experienced any negative effects on any of my SPS & clams. What I did notice was my yellow leather has not expanded much in the past week or so but also has closed up or started to slough either. As for LPS, I do have some candycanes that are not as full on the fleshy part, also within the last week or so. Even though the softie & candycanes are not at it's best, I would still consider it to be "reef safe" for my application.
Whether the product works or not:
Here's my opinion so far & I am basing this from my FOWLR tank that was heavily infected and lost 60% of it's fish inhabitants. I wouldn't consider the first 7 day treatment effective because I failed to remove the heavy dosing of Kick-Ick & Rally prior to the treatment. Week 2 would also be questionable since I also failed to turn off my Phosban reactor.
Of the 4 fish that were left after week 2, a Naso tang was the worst affected fish. He had a heavy covering of the parasite including the eye area and also showed patches of secondary infections on the body area along with some fin rot.
Due to the amount of visible parasites, I decided to give him a 5 minute fresh water dip. The dip was performed (I didn't think he would survive the dip) and he was returned to the tank for treatment week #3.
Whatever fell off during the fresh water bath came back within a few days but now it's been about 11 days and the Naso shows no visible signs of the parasite and what surprised me a bit was the body scars from the secondary infections have healed up nicely.
I won't say that the ick has been erradicated because:
#1 - I'm weary of the product so that's why I'm still dosing
#2 - I see no "visible" attachments but I think or thought I still saw my Blue angel scratch once or twice
I've eliminated all the possibles that I could in regards to interference with the product's active ingredient but i'm sure my water quality has gone downhill so I turned my skimmers back on for both tanks while still dosing the product.
I going to finish this treatment & stop the dosing to see if the intial results are just temporary.
I've used up about 4 bottles of the stuff, so I did spend some money on the product. It may very well be put with the Kick-Icks, RxPs & Chem Marins but it was asked if anyone has tried this product and I'm answering that question.
