Bummer

[ej]

Where do I start. About 3 weeks ago I notice that my temp was swinging too much as my wife was keeping the air too cool at night. so I put in a heater in my sump. Two days later my heater shorted out and it overheated my tank. one daisy polyps loss, not too bad. Put in a brand new heater and added a big digital temp so I can use the alarm mode. I figure I was doing ok and then the Ick started in my kole tang. After doing a lot of reading here about Ick I decided to let it ride and just start using garlic and got a cleaner wrasse. At the same time I added a bicolor to my other tank and my yellow tang went at him the second i place him in the tank, so I panic and put the yellow tang in my reef to save the bicolor. So the yellow tang got ick a couple days later. So 2 days ago I could not find my cleaner wrasse MIA (he must have die ang got eaten) I got home a couple of hours ago and found my kole dead. Took him out did a water change and I'm just sitting here depress as hell. My remaining fish all have ick. I had just started to set up a hospital tank but I don't think I can get my fish out with all the corals and LR. It sucks all my fish look like crap. I guess I'm just PO after all the hard work for my tank to go to crap in a couple weeks. I just started using reef solutions I guess is soupose to be good for the fish as well for the corals. we'll see. I tought I was going to feel better after typing this but is not working! Thanks for listening to my frustations.

 

[dad]

sorry to hear about all your losses.i'm sure things will get better though.

 

[nm reef]

Sorry to hear about the problems in your tank.......twice now heaters have cost me big time.......first was a excellent frogspawn....second time was a hammer that I had searched months for ........never had a major ick out break(just a minor one)...but I do dose garlic once a week now to keep it at bay...........I'd feel just as bad as you obviously do if mine went to hades also..........

 

[blueberryboomer]

HI! Sorry about your loss. Iam a true beliver in treating ick with garlic, we had a major outbreak in our 200gal, it is kinda hard to catch all the fish so once again I went to the garlic method, when it gets close to feeding time, I take what ever I'm feeding that night and pour in garlic juice(I buy garlic in a jar already choped in its own juices)and let it soak for about 15 minutes, within 3 days all most all ick was gone..You don't want to use garlic for more than 4 days in a row though because it will cloud your tank...I'm a true believer, it works..Later Lisa