well,sepulatian ur entitled to ur opinion and i am to mine. to me ich is just ich. its not like aids to me or anything big just a small stupid tiny parasite like a mosquito but for fish.
n e ways.
ive been ich free since august 2006. and this is my story.
ich was first sighted in my 55 gallon tank. ive tried those stupid ich meds that dont hurt inverts. well soon i learned, if it dont hurt inverts, then it dont hurt ich. well lost 80$ in the meds and ich was still victorious.
Ive then brought the big guns. A UV sterilzer...the ich began to die off slowly but were still present. i had the uv pump in the main tank since i knew ich travel within the low mid section of the tank. i never say an ich out break again. hers a pic to show u the recovery with uv and after uv.
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after
UV results may vary.
yeah the uv was kickin butt in the 55 but on my new 125...it suked even with another 40watt uv with a total of 49 watts of uv.
My 125 was outbreakin with ich and the fish were already in there. with the corals nd rock work with 160# LR. the uv was installed and it did nothing. may due to its placement in the sump and not the maintank.
i began feeding of garlic , fresh minced garlic from the market, and supllemented all the foods i feed with it.
Garlic method i did:
I got 3 gloves. got a cheese grater and grated them in a cup. got 2 ml of water and a smasher to smash the shreds. theres was enough of garlic juice in the 2ml diluted water.. soaked the soultuion is mysid shrimp, their nori, theyre brine. within a few weeks ich began to decline.
then i say my lfs have changed the price on cleaner chrimp to 11.99$ he gave me for 10$ since i was a regular. about 10 one week.. then 10 more another.
well now my tank has healthy fish. ICH is sitll in my tank i kno. but i have never seen it on my fish ever again.
in summary:
i used uv. worked great in small tanks under 100 when placed in maintank.
Garlic helpes a lot when using fresh garlic.
Then i reinforced everything with cleaner shirmps. 20. over kill i kno i coulve stoped at 5 for my size tank.
havent lost a fish to ich since.