ick!

[stillballin145]

my blue tang has ick..all ihave in my tank is a blue damsel, some crabs and a cleaner shrimp...help ? what do i do to save her ? suggestions ??

 

[stillballin145]

anybody ? or is evryone just going to ignore me ? i need help, i dont want dory to die...

 

[st.anger]

do you have any corals and a place too put your shrimp and crabs?

 

[stillballin145]

unfortunately no i dont..please help, shes geting worse. is there a type of organic treatment with garlic or something ??

 

[S.Reef]

move to a quarantine tank and treat with malachete green.

Sam Reef

 

[stillballin145]

i dont have another tank

 

[1979camaro]

you need a quarantine tank....how many times must this come up here...i dont understand why people dont have qtanks

 

[S.Reef]

There is a treatment for tanks with invertabrates. Its called Rid-Ich. It cost about 20 bucks for a liter. This is not a prefered treatment! It worked in my tank, but has mixed results.

Sam Reef

 

[Statix]

go buy a 10 gallon tank and put you inverts in it and treat the main tank. While treating your tank raise the temp to 80 or 81 degrees. It quickens the ich bloom time and will be sure to wipe it out. Remember copper kills inverts and corals dead.

 

[Statix]

also when your done treating run activated carbon in your tank before you reintroduce your inverts

 

[wayne]

Or run a polyfilter , and see what colour it goes (differnt metals, different colours)
I'm finding it increasingly hard to believe people can keep on setting up large expensive setups but can't run to a 10 or 20 gallon QT system for treatment in situations like this. Treating the main display is just the first step on a road to long term pain