On Oct 16, 12:17 am, "August West"
wrote:
This stuff worked for me...http://www.aquariumguys.com/kickich1.htmlI have
no idea whats in it but it is copper free.

I quarantined my Atlanic Blue Tang after I got him. I finally put him in the
big tank and about a week later - Blam! He had ich all over him. Theres no
way to catch a fish in that tank, so I tried Kick-Ich out of desparation. It
worked, and none of the inverts were affected. Nothing happened to the
nitrite, nitrate, or ammonia levels, so I assume it left all the bacteria
alone. Now I use garlic and cleaner shrimp in the big tank. Whenever I get
new fish, they get the Kick-Ich treatment in the quarantine tank. When I
move them to the big tank, it gets a Kick Ich treatment also. Expensive, but
effective.

Its best to leave the skimmer off on "dose day"

"George Patterson" wrote in message

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Big Habeeb wrote:

I think my surprise was more in general that ich was
an issue (not that I needed to keep a Q tank) - One of the solutions
I'd used with a decent amount of success in battling ich in the past
was adding a small amount of sea salt to my freshwater tanks....not
enough to even impact the spc gravity particularly, but it seemed to
do a good job of battling off the nasty ich...in most cases even more
so than the recommended chemicals (and I prefer not to use chemicals
anyway).

Freshwater ich and sal****er ich are two completely different animals
(literally). You will find many people who claim that sal****er ich is
inherent in all marine fish and can't be cured. These people will advise
you to improve your water quality, and the ich will go away.

I agree that it will. For about 2 weeks, until the next generation of the
parasite gets to the fish-sucking stage.

The only cure for marine ich (AK cryptocaryon) is copper sulphate.
Unfortunately, adding this to your reef tank will kill lots of stuff you
really need (for example, your live rock becomes dead rock), so you need a
Q tank to treat your fish. It also needs to be big enough to keep all your
fish alive for the month that it takes to allow the ich to die out in your
main tank.

Better to quarantine your fish so that ich doesn't get into your tank in
the first place.

George Patterson
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Dunno if anyone is still checkin this thread but...
Tank is up and running with all the live rock, substrate was put in
this weekend, lots of algae forming, bio cycle appears to be complete
(ammonia went up and then back down etc)...did a 15% water change
Sunday night and tank seems to be running fairly happily. Tonight I'm
going to be adding a small cleaning crew - likely 3 snails and a crab,
to start dealing with the algae...looks like we're starting to get
close to 'go' time.
Mitch