Ich! in my 33 gallon

[Ricky-Zion]

I have my 2 of my fish showing signs of ich, one actually having visible white spots. I don't have an extra tank to quarantine them unfortunately. And I dont wanna bombard them with copper medications as I do have lots of corals and inverts.

I have a cleaner wrasse in the tank, but I know it is most likely not that helpful.
By any chance could the ich just subside? I assume it can only get worse.

http://www.instantocean.com/sites/instantocean/products/productdetail.aspx?id=1294&cid=959
I heard that this product is reef safe, but I want some advise before I do anything.

Any help greatly is appreciated.

[naesco]

I would not risk putting any chemical in a reef tank. It will either not work or damage your coral.
If you have a QT you can remove the fish and try it there.
Otherwise I would suggest that you go to a health food store or a LFS and buy a bottle of garlic extreme or garlic extract.
Soak all the food you feed in garlic extract. Use dry food as it absorbs the garlic extract much better.
Feed only garlic soaked food and feed very often.
The idea is to get as much garlic into the fish as possible. The sooner you start the better.

BTW I happened to notice that you have a tang in your tank. It was likely one of the fish that show signs of ich. Tangs are ich magnets.

Tangs require large tanks because they are swimmers and need the swimming room large tanks provide and a 33 gallon is much much too small for any tang.
Please return the fish to the LFS or offer it to another reefer.
Good luck.

[Ricky-Zion]

surprisingly the tang hasn't shown any signs of ich. Its my Firefish that I have seen rubbing its sides on the sand bend, and one of the cardinals that has a few white spots.
Also the tang is still a small juvenile and I plan to pass it on to a friend with a much larger system when it gets too big.

[Ricky-Zion]

And thanks for the advise with the garlic, I am gonna look into that ASAP

[jassz]

I treated for 10 days using this stuff http://polyplab.com/medic.html and I have never had ich in my tank since. I wished I had used it sooner. The gal at the fish store compared it to buying flea collars to get rid of fleas (which only kinda work) vs buying Advantage and ending the problem (because it doesn't just kill the flea, it breaks the reproduction cycle).

Good luck!

[mws]

I treated for 10 days using this stuff http://polyplab.com/medic.html and I have never had ich in my tank since. I wished I had used it sooner. The gal at the fish store compared it to buying flea collars to get rid of fleas (which only kinda work) vs buying Advantage and ending the problem (because it doesn't just kill the flea, it breaks the reproduction cycle).

Good luck!

This sounds good. Does anyone else used it?