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12-15-2008, 04:11 PM
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when the tan first started showing a few spots the shrimp seemed to be eating them off, but now the tang doesn't seem to visit him as often.
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12-15-2008, 04:20 PM
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i've got a bottle of garlic xtreme if you need. and selcon
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tanks: 120g w/starphire front, pm bullet 2 skimmer, yellow tang, emperor angel, niger trigger, spotted hawkfish, blue tang, flame angel and 120lbs lr Last edited by robzilla; 12-15-2008 at 05:10 PM.
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12-15-2008, 04:26 PM
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The ONLY ways to completely eliminate ich are hyposalinity or copper. Neither of which are particularly agreeable to anything else in your display tank. Garlic will help stimulate a feeding response and a fish that eats may be able to fight it off temporarily but you will then always have Ich in your display.
The best solution is for you to now remove ALL the fish from the display into a quarantine tank and treat with either hyposalinity or copper. The other route would be to remove all coral, live rock, sand and invertebrates into a rubbermaid tub and apply the hyposalinity treatment to the display. DO NOT use copper in your display as it will leave traces that linger and cause problems for ages. Either route you choose, the fish and everything else should be kept seperate for 6-8 weeks to allow the Ich parasites to go through their life cycle. That means no fish at all in with your liverock, sandbed, corals, etc. Once you have completely eliminated Ich from your system QUARANTINE everything properly before it goes into your tank and you won't ever have this problem again! Good luck
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12-17-2008, 02:06 PM
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Well the ich is winning
I've lost the Coral Beauty and the Powder Brown Tang  How do I do a fresh water dip? want to try that on my Clown and Foxface I'm feading garlic, got the temp up to 82deg and using Paracide Green, they just keep getting worse. Very frustrating
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12-17-2008, 04:16 PM
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Most people learn to live with ich. All those home remedies of garlic, cleaner shrimp, UV etc probably help keep ich in a chronic low level state within a tank. You're happy as long as you don't see the spots - which are only a visible symptom of the parasite infection. However, once the infection gets serious and fish start dropping left and right your only course of action if you want to save any fish is to remove either all the fish or all the live rock/inverts and start hyposalinity and/or copper treatment. These are the only two things that are scientifically proven to KILL ich (crytocaryon irritans).
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-08/sp/index.php http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/20...ture/index.php
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