Reef Safe Ich Treatment?

[CaliReefer12]

Well in my well established reef tank I have dealt with ich in the past. I have managed to conquer it using a QT tank and copper treatment. None of my fish have shown any signs of ich in the past few months. yesterday I bought a flame angel. He looks incredibly healthy at the LFS where I bought him. Today I began to see the dreaded white flecks. I have no idea how it has managed to survive in my tank. Anyways, I have a few BTA's a great healthy gigantea carpet anemone and tons of corals in my tank and copper and hypo are not options.

Have any of you tried some of the claimed to be reef safe ich treatment?

 

[Art_Vandelay]

The parasites must have been on the flame angel. You didnt QT him? If you get him out before the parasites drop off you might be OK.
I can tell you that I have used KORDON Ich Attack and it doesnt work.
Good luck... hope all works out.

 

[Mr. Brooks]

I tried them all early in my reefing career. None of them work.

 

[EleganceMan]

i am going freaking crazy with this....how do we as consumers keep buying these so called ich treatments that are reef safe.... they dont work and yet they keep selling... how can they do that...

 

[xpirtdesign]

i went through the same thing with my clown. i stablized the water temp and p h (it was a fairly new tank) and it was gone within 3 days. hes strong and happy as can be now

 

[george_grat]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14468742#post14468742 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EleganceMan
i am going freaking crazy with this....how do we as consumers keep buying these so called ich treatments that are reef safe.... they dont work and yet they keep selling... how can they do that...

+10000000 I have the same questions.

 

[troyman]

they do not work i feed them more get the fish healthy added garlic to there food and spirinila builds up there immunity it goes away dont mean its still not there but a health fish can fight it off

 

[hawkfishman]

kick ich might be worth a try works ok

 

[ghostrida3]

this is why i quarantine always no matter how good the fish looks. its tough cause you wanna see that new fish in the display asap but it sucks so much more when all of your fish get ich and you cant stop it.

 

[LargeAngels]

There is NO Reef Safe ich treatment. Back to basics. Treat with hypo or copper in seperate QT and leave DT fishless for 4-6 weeks. If using hypo make sure it is ich and not velvet. Velvet is not treatable with hypo, only copper.

 

[lkc]

I am currently using a reef safe ich treatment (No-Ich Marine). My box fish, which you can't really treat with copper or any other chemical medications was totally covered and almost blind with ich. Desparately I put him in a hospital tank and put some Clout in there and he took it really well. The ich went away. I kept him in there for a month. Put him back in the display and ich came back. I went out and purchased the No-Ich and have been using it in the display for two weeks with my duncans, zoes mushrooms, snails, hermits and the ich is completely gone. You must commit to following the directions without fail otherwise it won't work. That's the key. This is just one experience, you may have another.
BTW- He was the only fish in there.

 

[LargeAngels]

Problem with all these "Reef Safe" products is that some fish can fight off ich and velvet, thus making it appear that the product worked. There has yet to be a single Reef Safe med. that has been proven to work on ich and velvet.

 

[reefscape15]

get a cleaner shrimp. It removed all spots of ich from my yellow tang

 

[rkelman]

QT and Copper / Hypo. Leave the tank fallow for 5 weeks That is the ONLY way to get rid of ich. Ich kick / garlic and cleaner shrimp are a band aid at best.

 

[EleganceMan]

you would think that someone would put a stop to businesses selling these reef safe meds that every advanced aquarist knows do not work. How do they come up with these meds.... put some water with something that wont harm reefs and call it ich med. I am so frustrated with this. I wish I knew how to stop this.

 

[Mr. Brooks]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14471064#post14471064 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lkc
I am currently using a reef safe ich treatment (No-Ich Marine). My box fish, which you can't really treat with copper or any other chemical medications was totally covered and almost blind with ich. Desparately I put him in a hospital tank and put some Clout in there and he took it really well. The ich went away. I kept him in there for a month. Put him back in the display and ich came back. I went out and purchased the No-Ich and have been using it in the display for two weeks with my duncans, zoes mushrooms, snails, hermits and the ich is completely gone. You must commit to following the directions without fail otherwise it won't work. That's the key. This is just one experience, you may have another.
BTW- He was the only fish in there.

Ich is still in your system. You just watched the end of it's life cycle. It will be back. If not on your exsisting fish then on new additions.

 

[Mr. Brooks]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14471456#post14471456 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefscape15
get a cleaner shrimp. It removed all spots of ich from my yellow tang

Cleaner shrimp only remove dead skin. The parasite is too deep to get to.

 

[jbird69]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14471734#post14471734 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by EleganceMan
you would think that someone would put a stop to businesses selling these reef safe meds that every advanced aquarist knows do not work. How do they come up with these meds.... put some water with something that wont harm reefs and call it ich med. I am so frustrated with this. I wish I knew how to stop this.

I am sure these products do have some ich killing power. And they are safe for inverts. That is how they stay in business...they are not lying about their product..per se. They just arent strong enough to wipe out the organism. If you dont kill every single one, you might as well have killed none.
I have used kick ich. It did nothing for the ich and my inverts were NOT happy. I even lost a few.
Cleaner shrimp will clean off some of the parasites but they sometimes dig deep into the flesh, leaving a wound. Now you have a fish with ich and a wound and in its weakened condition is highly vulnerable to infections... A lot of times the fish will die from infections contracted from shrimp caused open sores, and they may well have survived the ich if they were eating garlic soaked food without shrimp picking at them...

 

[ginger7286]

Kick-Ich. I used it once many moons ago. It worked and I have not had ich since. The best part....I didn't have to worry about it effecting anything else in my tank so I didn't have to catch the infected fish.