Possible New Cure for Ick?

Not just ich and scurvy! My sps have better growth, my flatworms went away and my lights got brighter.
 
Lefty said:
I dropped crushed up chewable vitamin c tablets in my tank and my ich went away.

Have you ever looked at the active ingredients listed on a box of AB's Exodin (an alledged cure for Velvet/Amyloodinium)? Ascorbic acid aka vitamin C
 
cratylus.
good for you
glad to see someone sharing that they found something.
thats what makes this hobby so interesting.

Ive been looking for a homemade food recipe for a long time.
would be an honour to recieve that recipe.

thanks

vic
 
Lefty...

Vitamin C might have gotten rid of your flatworms? Even if it wasnt that, it sounds like it has other benifits as well... how did you prepare the vitamin C? Any particular brand of chewable Vit. C? Anyone else have good results with vitamin C?

Thanks
MAg
 
Dont ignore.
Take it as an object lesson that everything anyone tries is not necessarily something to give weight to.

And I wouldn't be suprised if, from the one post above, vitamin c treatment makes the rounds as something to try for ich.
 
sorry I'm so gullable... but the vitamin supp. I use is high in vitC so I figured maybe there was something to that. next time I'll know not to trust any of you guys... :rolleyes:

Thanks... well... not really...
MAg
 
Lefty said:
Dont ignore.
Take it as an object lesson that everything anyone tries is not necessarily something to give weight to.

And I wouldn't be suprised if, from the one post above, vitamin c treatment makes the rounds as something to try for ich.

I just want to be clear, I said an alledged cure. I have no idea if it works.
 
magnum420 said:
sorry I'm so gullable... but the vitamin supp. I use is high in vitC so I figured maybe there was something to that. next time I'll know not to trust any of you guys... :rolleyes:

Thanks... well... not really...
MAg

Sorry you feel bad. That wasn't really my intention. I thought it was clear from my post, and the discussion of scurvy, that I was using ironic satrie.

Lots of 'cures' and 'suppliments' seem like they could work. This whole thread has been about a 'cure' for ich that seems to make some sense. But everything could be spun to seem like it makes sense. All it takes is one 'supporting' opinion, and the band wagon is off and running.

Vitamin c made the rounds several years ago as a 'miracle' additive, even though is really doesn't seem to help - hence your suppliment.
'It happened after, therefore was caused by' is a really powerful, but incorrect, chain of reasoning.

Like I said earlier, the idea that changing a light could rid your tank of ich has exactly the same level of supportive evidence as ginger. Yet for some reason, most would simply dismiss the idea that a change in lighting would cure ich - even though it would be easy to spin a decent sounding explanition.

And in a very large way, you shouldn't trust anyone who posts on these boards. We don't know who we are, and eventhough we are all trying to help each other, there is lots of weird information out there. If I want to check something out I search at least two of the online boards to see if there is some agreement.

There is no agreement anywhere that ginger would do anything. Yet people are still claiming that it works.
 
Dont worry about it... my last post was more in a joking manner anyway. I alway take what I hear online with a grain of salt. I also wrote that before my morning coffee. :D

MAg
 
remember the reat true experts know how to catch the fish and quarintine them and cure them....or am i just another expert wth an opinion to disagree with.

on a real level. there are methods of catching fish in large tanks. many of which call for a couple of days to get them caught. if anyone care i would be glad to help.
 
not to be mean. I would like to see you catch any of my fish. I have a 100 pound rock with tons of holes. you could if you torn down the tank plus my fish are fast.
 
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