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LOL .....saltymom that is the best idea i've ever seen on this forum..... it might work

get a lil container and mix the food and garlic and leave it in fridge. I mix about a 1 week supply everytime. If they have ich then you should feed them 2 or 3 times a day with garlic.

Oh yea the tank size is 125g....

Is there a scratch filler out there that works? I was given a tank and it looks like they tried to scrub off algae and sand got inbetween and scratched the inside of the glass. The scratches really stand out because theres green algae in them. Please help!

I agree with bang guy.. how long you been into aquariums bot? (no offense) just curious. Me... heavy for about 2 years, with a second job at a all tropical fish store. I've had the pleasure of working for a guy who has been in the business for about 25 years and is really passionate about it...

Geez, all I was trying to say is that a UV is not going to get rid of ich. I never said UVs dont work....of course they do. But once again ich is ALWAYS gonna be there and outbreak if conditions permit it to. Also I dont understand why you guys are quoting websites trying to prove to me that...

Garlic has Allicin in it and it boosts the immune sytem like steroids. In return when a fish has a normal functioning immune sys it fights off ich byitself.

You had fatalitys with percula's?

But ich is always there...thats my point:D

yeah CBS are not my favorites. They will snatch up small fish too

You may have gotten some chemicals in the tank..has anyone sprayed for bugs or sprayed air freshener in the same room? Things like that can cause nitrate n nitrite to spike

Looks like you guys got lucky with the pairing.....goodluck and hope they stay nice :D

That awesome. I think that the foot print on the tank i'm looking at is 8' x 3' also. The lady had 3 horned sharks in thereand some rays. How big did the smoothounds get? and how do they swim....in laps? Also can you refer me to some good reading on smoothounds?

you haveto think...every white dot that you see on the fish falls to the bottom and turns into 200 -500 free swimming anemotopes. if your fish has lets say 10 dots on it when they reproduce do the math. UV is waste of power for ich. But good luck and hope your livestock stays live :D

Keep the temp STEADY and dont do any changes to tank like moving rock or adding new fish for a lil while until everyone settles down. They still have ich that you cant see, but their immune sys is fighting it off before it turns into the egg sacks that appear as white spots on the fish. Just...

He is stressed in return his immune sys weakened and ich was able to thrive on it. Best thing to do is make sure temp is steady and dose it with alicin (in garlic) to help there immune sys and let it fight it off naturally. If you put in QT it will get stressed again and ich will re-apear...

lol..typo......*shocking

ich is always there....you can't "kick" it. You just need to stop schocking to fish from QT's to show and back n forth. Once they get comfortable with STEADY temp their immune sys will fight them off like normal. How do you think they deal with it in the ocean.....they dont got no "kick-ich"...

garlic has a chem called alicin in it and it basically is "steriods' for the immune system. Even if you dont't have ich or disease is not a bad idea to feed them some just to prevent more outbreaks:D

soak their food in garlic juice