jbyrd
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9 weeks ago my tank had a case of the notorious ICK. I waited to long to find a medicaton being I have a reef tank. My LFS had some RxP (pepper based) that was reef safe. Needless to say it was to late for the fish. Only used acouple of treatments and followed directions to a T. I did some reading and made myself more knowledgeable about this parasite. I followed the advice of waiting 8-9 weeks before introducing another fish. Meanwhile the only thing I had left in my tank was acouple of corals and 2 shrimp. Time came and I finally went and purchased another fish. Only after a day of being in my tank guess what? You answered it Ick AGAIN. Caught it this time right away. Started with the Garlic and followed the RxP directions, 3 treatments with the addition of any new fish to the system everyohter day with a treatment of Poly Ox inbetween. The small case of ick has gone for now, I hope for good. The only thing is the fish looks like his scales have dried (no slime coat maybe) and he is constanly infront of my powerhead. In my observation I believe he looks like this because of the RxP treatment. He is healthy and eating well other than his scales look like this. So in otherwords has anyone else ran into this and is this because of the treatments? This week I will be ordering a UV to help prevent this again along with a future purchase of a quarintine tank from a friend.