How to treat Ich in a salt water with some anemones?

[elhaddad]

friends, i'm a new salt water aquarist, and i found some ich on my butter fly fish. i found some medications in the net but the fish store told me that any medication will kill the anemones? is that right? if yes, how can i treat it?

thanks,
amr

 

[Lotus]

Welcome to the site

The only way to sucessfully treat ich is to remove all fish from your main tank and treat them in another tank. You'll need to leave your main tank without any fish for 8 weeks. Unfortunately, anything that will kill ich will kill corals, anemones and live rock.

This is an excellent article on marine ich: Marine Ich

 

[elhaddad]

many thanks. i red that i can get red of the ich by raising the temp to 85-90f for 3 weeks or 3 days after the last white spot is fallen from the fish, is that correct?

 

[Lotus]

I don't believe that will work for marine ich, and would also kill your anemone. The two proven methods are hyposalinity or copper treatment in a hospital tank.