First time with ick

[austinfish1]

I have had saltwater fish for almost 10 years now, and never had ick. I guess I have been really lucky. For many years I did not add anything new to my reef tank.
Recently, I had to get rid of a killer tom clown. I killed a leather in the process .
I traded him in for a pair of Ocellaris Clownfish. The LFS, had had them for over 2 weeks and they looked good. I put them in my reef. This was my big mistake. I did not and have not had a QT tank. I did ask for this mess.
The same day I put the new fish in, they began to show white spots..
No one else is show signs of ick and I really can not catch all 5 fish and move them. I will end up distroying what corals I have left.
I'm hoping it's just the stress of the move (newly moved from LFS to my tank for the clowns) that has caused this.
I plan on putting garlic in the food and when the clowns show no sign of white spot, on about days 6-10 of the ick cycle, I plan on darken the tank.
I am concerned about my corals with 4 days of darkness.
With this hurt them??
In the end I may have to move all of them which I dread. My second tank is fish and shrimp and only 12 gals. I'd have to move the shrimp to the other tank and will have 7 fish in that small tank. It just does not seem good at all.
Has anyone had luck with the bottled reef safe ick cures??
I heard OOmed is good, but it no longer made.
Set up
45 gal,
chiller,
220watts VHO lights,
2 802 power heads,
a hang on the back wet/dry with skimmer
Life
Royal Gramma
Bicolor Blenny (new)
Ocellaris Clowns (pair, new)
Eight Line Wrasse (tail is damaged from old tom clown)
Live Rock? a good bit
assorted corals, both soft and hard
snails, hermit crabs..
Any help or suggestions, as always welcomed!
I realize how stupid it was that I did not QT my fish.

 

[beth]

Darkening a tank to cure ich is a waste of time. Where did you hear that?
Garlic won't cure an all out outbreak of ich. It is more of a preventative measure.
QT and hyposalinity is the answer, but you can't QT all your fish in the small tank you have. Either set up a workable QT, a very worthwhile investment if you are going to stay in this hobby, or you may try a reef safe med. I don't recommend these and have not used them. They don't always work and may have effects on your inverts. However, the alternative is the death of all your fish.

 

[harrysreef]

I feel your pain I am in the hypo process right now with a fowlr tank. The rock and inverts are in a gaint rubbermaid bucket (w/lights) right now and the display is in hypo. Good luck

 

[austinfish1]

Can the ick just go away??
If the break out was just from the move and no one else gets it, could it be gone?
If not than I'm going to do a few more things before I get another tank(my boyfriends going to kill me if get another tank).
As of now I'm going to slowly raise the temp to about 82, try kick ick and hope for the best.
I'm really dreading catching these fish and moving them. I think that will be very stressful for both me and them as well as my corals.
If I do end up getting a tank, it should be around 20 gal?
What if I just get rid of the infected fish?
Okay that's not real nice, but man this really is a bummer!

 

[austinfish1]

Thank you everyone who gave me some guidelines to use when treating ick. As of now the fish are clean, but show signs of a white film over them(still just the 2 clown fish). I decided that if I can not get it under control in the next week, I will move the clowns to my small thank, and use hypo and maybe some form of copper. Copper really scares me.
I would have to discard my bio wheel, all my sand if I ever what to have shrimp in my small tank. Sounds really powerful.
I'm going to try kick Ick and I'm going to bring the specific gravity in the tank down to about 1.2 and see how everything does.
I may go ahead and invest in another tank (again my boyfriend will not be happy with this).
EEEEEKK!!!
I have really been lucky all these years never to have had ick. I did have black spot, on a tang, and did treat it by putting him in the small tank for a month and medicating him with Metronidzole (I think that's it). Im at work and don't have the medication in front of me. It worked fine and no one else ever showed any problems. Which was good because I could not catch my hawkfish or my clown at the time.
Wish me luck, I'm going to need it as well as a prayer!
Thanks again. I love this message group! You guys are so honest and I have learned so much just from doing a search on something and reading back messages.