jar05g

Ok...I know I've posted a lot about this subject..so I'm sorry lol. I'm not getting a quarantine tank until this Friday and won't have it ready to go until probably Saturday. The guy at my LFS is going to sell me water from his reef tank for $.50 a gallon so I won't have to wait for a cycle. In my display tank now, all I have are 5 fish and live rock, along with some fake stuff. 4 of the 5 have ICH. I was told to raise the temp. and feed them garlic..and that would cure it. I'm just getting really worried right now because I can see it all over their bodies, and I don't want to wait until Saturday to put them in the tank and treat them. Since I don't have corals...and just live rock...can I just treat them in my tank now. I have some "Quick Cure," or would I be hurting my tank?

bmxer193

"sell me water from his reef tank for $.50 a gallon so I won't have to wait for a cycle" THIS WILL NOT MAKE THE TANK NOT HAVE TO CYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the water doent have much to do with cycling But the gravel and filter media do, thats where all the good batceria is NOT THE WATER

jar05g

I have all my fish in a bare tank. Plus I have my hermit crab and cleaner shrimp in there as well. I am treating my fish for ich so I decided to just put them all in the quarantine tank. I know inverts like my shrimp don't get ich (I think I read that in some article on this site..but I could be wrong), but is it a bad thing to put ich medication in the tank with them because that's what I did and I don't think he's doing too well.

reef freak

QTing them, as I've found out, seems to make Ich worse. Ich is usually able to take hold because of stress. The more stress, the weaker the fish's immune system, the more Ich.

My blue tang had Severe ich, and all I did was:
Keep Params good
Keep SG at 1.024 (If you have SW)
Keep temp from swinging
DO NOT STRESS THE FISH BY PUTTING YOUR HAND IN THE TANK OF ANYTHING OF THE SORT!
Feed garlic and vitamine based foods (I used Formula One pellets)

My Tang's Ich cleared in 3days

DO NOT USE MEDICATION!! It will stress the fish sometimes. NEVER PUT IT IN YOUR DISPLAY!!!! The shrimp isn't doing well because of the medication. Inverts CANNOT stand copper, or medications.

Do EXACTLY as I said and it should clear up. This is the most natural way of ridding ich. The ich will still be in the tank, but as long as the fish's immune system doesn't fail, they should be fine.

JM

jar05g

Thank you so much. Unfortunately, my Regal Tang died. She was looking very bad, and just laying at the bottom of the tank so I put her in my QT...and she later died. I guess it was just the stress...and my shrimp died too. It's unfortunate that they haven't made a medication for ich that is safe for everything else. I have learned for next time. I'm still waiting for my tank to get back to normal since I had treated it. The carbon should have gotten the medication out by now. Thank you again for your help!!