Reef Safe Meds...Ich problems

[Handikapped]

so i just moved houses, and the stress has apparently taken its toll. i tried my hardest to move my fish and corals ASAP. maybe 3 hours outta tank experiene per tank. Sure enough my blue spotted jawfish and coral beauty have started to get the tell tale white spots. Oddly enough the jawfish has these clear almost fleshy spots on his head (im attributing to him doing some serious overtime work building his new hideout) but assuredly he has ich.

Im currently using Kick Ich by Ruby Reef. Anyone out there use it before???? unfortunately in the move my mantis shrimp died so i have a spare 30 gallon until my 2x10 gallon quarantines get setup. My question is, should i leave the fish in the display tankfor a few days to see how the kick ich works or should i just move them to the spare 30 (aka former mantish shrimp home) and dose them with rid-ich and a few others? it seems that i have a losing battle in this tank with ich. water paramaters are good in the display tank. then one day ill discover that a scallop decided to move himself into a water jet and got eaten and boom ich is back. my favorite was my the hermit crab suicide of 07...the big mamma crab decided to go to the back filter of my biocube and like lemmings the rest followed and all died (had tested water2 days beforehand everything perfect lol) and boom ich again.

Prior to these tank inhabitants, i had the above mentioned ich outbreak, and removed all my fish and had a coral only tank for 2 months!!! and now its back after quarantining all of the new inhabitants...what the!!?? why would this happen

frustration!

 

[LargeAngels]

I have yet to see ANY reef safe ich medications proven to work. Only hypo and copper are proven to work.

Remove all fish, place in QT, treat with Hypo or copper 4-6 weeks while leaving main tank fishless.

 

[ginger7286]

I have used Kick Ich before and it worked great!!! I even used it in my main tank as I could not catch all the fish to move them to my QT. I recommend this product because it does not hurt the inverts and it does not affect the water parameters. Use it according to the dose and schedule. I did two treatments back to back. I had my Ich breakout last fall (September) and I have not had one since. Good Luck.

 

[gary faulkner]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12636002#post12636002 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LargeAngels
I have yet to see ANY reef safe ich medications proven to work. Only hypo and copper are proven to work.

Remove all fish, place in QT, treat with Hypo or copper 4-6 weeks while leaving main tank fishless.

No product works in the display, period! QT or live with the ich, it's your choice.

 

[Handikapped]

I have quarantined before, like i said before, but it always comes back even with a 2 month break in the tank it comes back! i dunno?? fish to be removed today and put into qt just had to wait till the tank was at right paramaters

 

[paulamrein]

You can introduce parasites from wet hands, nets, rock, coral sand anything wet. Is there a chance you were using the same equipment for both tanks leaving the fallow time useless? Even an encysted parasite can't stay that way for ever, and if it's 2 to 3 days in free swimming stage without a host it dies. Something is still getting into the tank, It's not that quarantine doesn't work.