Ich ???

naesco · #1 11-01-2009, 01:19 AM

Feed it garlic extract (Garlic Extreme)
Soak flake or spirulina disks in the garlic extract. Feed only garlic soaked food'

kien · #2 11-01-2009, 01:22 AM

If your fish are healthy they can fight the ich off themselves. You can help them along the way by soaking their food in garlic extract from a local fish store. You can also try one or two skunk cleaner shrimp to eat off their ich parasites.

edmfishguy · #3 11-01-2009, 04:03 AM

is it safe to add cleaner shrimp withmy Anemone???

#4 11-01-2009, 05:19 AM

I have cleaner shrimp in my 55g with 2 nem's it is safe cleaner shrimp can do the same thing a clown fish can. I have one shrimp that will purch its self on top of the nem's tenticals It will steel food right out of the nem's tenticals also.

Bill

edmfishguy · #5 11-11-2009, 10:01 PM

so Last night I pick some cleaner shrimp.... they clowns were going after them before they even hit the bottom of the tank...but I had my grabing tool handy... but after about 15 mins the clowns seemed to be leaving them alone.. I hope they are hidding because I didn't see them this morning..

edmfishguy · #6 11-19-2009, 03:13 AM

Well I followed everyone's advice and raised the temp in my tank and lowered the salinity that helped for a few day. I also started adding garlic guard to there food. didn't see any sign of it for almost a week. then on thursday night I noticed my yellow tang with a few spots. by morning my one Black Ocellaris started to get spots too. By the weekend it was really bad and my other Ocellaris started to get spots. I also pulled my urchin out thinking maybe that had something to do with it. thats the only thing that had been changed in the tank. I went to a local shop and they told me to use ICK ATTACK. I follow the Instructions on the bottle and by morning my yellow tang was floating.... I continued with the treatments and this morning both my Ocellaris were dead. So time to start again.. I'm not going to use the Ick attack again, I'm going to do a 25%water change and see where it goes from there.... I've tested the water threw this hole thing and all the levels seen to be safe.. anyone have any ideas

#7 11-19-2009, 06:57 AM

what is your Ph at use a calibrated Ph probe Clowns are suseptible to low Ph and does not take much. 1.0 of a drop in Ph can kill a clown if you don't catch it. You could have brooklynella disease in your tank manly clowns get it it may transfer I don't know though, google it. I did a google and it can transfer to other fish similer to Ick. heres a link to some information:

http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/ich...brooklynel.htm

I added a carpet nem on the weekend and the shrimp don't go on it.

I hope this helps.
Bill