Honest answers please......
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sinner's girl
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we've had the 55gl set up since Jan 2001, never have never had trouble with ICH flaring up.. in fact, I don't think we've ever had trouble with ICH.
we've lost fish, but normaly know the cause, we did have one disapearence awhile back...but it wasn't ICH.
we've lost fish, but normaly know the cause, we did have one disapearence awhile back...but it wasn't ICH.
beattyr
Member
My exp with ich in my reef....
I set up my tank last spring. Kept having reoccuring ich problems. I didnt have the money and space to set up a low salinity tank for 6-8 weeks, so I tried feeding with garlic. I fed with mysis shrimp and garlic paste from the grocery store for a couple of months. By the end of the summer, the Ich was gone and I havent seen it return.
Tank (at the time) was 37 gal with 3 green chromis, a true perc, hawkfish, cleaner shrimp, CBS, pair of peppermints 30+lbs of LR and DSB.
The clown and the chromis's developed ich in reoccuring cycles till the end of the summer and then it just stopped reoccuring.
Hope this helps.
Rob
I set up my tank last spring. Kept having reoccuring ich problems. I didnt have the money and space to set up a low salinity tank for 6-8 weeks, so I tried feeding with garlic. I fed with mysis shrimp and garlic paste from the grocery store for a couple of months. By the end of the summer, the Ich was gone and I havent seen it return.
Tank (at the time) was 37 gal with 3 green chromis, a true perc, hawkfish, cleaner shrimp, CBS, pair of peppermints 30+lbs of LR and DSB.
The clown and the chromis's developed ich in reoccuring cycles till the end of the summer and then it just stopped reoccuring.
Hope this helps.
Rob
jim672
Member
Mine is probably a familiar story. I set up my 45 reef and slowly began to over-stock it with inappropriate fish. I had a Percula clown, hippo tang, lawnmower blenny and sailfin tang , and then decided to add a flame angel to my less-than-year-old tank with no Q tank. Huge ich outbreak. Huge. Lost all the fish. Found this Board. Left the tank fish-less for over 4 months....partly afraid of another outbreak, partly because I couldn't decide what to buy.
That was over 2 years ago. I currently have a maroon clown, tri-color damsel that are in there 2 years and a yellow dotyback I added about 9 months ago....and now have a Q-tank. Not a hint of ich.....even though the damsel terrorizes the other two.
Jim
That was over 2 years ago. I currently have a maroon clown, tri-color damsel that are in there 2 years and a yellow dotyback I added about 9 months ago....and now have a Q-tank. Not a hint of ich.....even though the damsel terrorizes the other two.
Jim
bang guy
Moderator
Originally posted by RyeBread
What harm would you say can come from feeding a daily source of garlic?
Allicin is one of the ingredients in Garlic that is thought to help combat Cryptocaryon. It has been suggested that long term exposure to Allicin could produce permanent liver damage (Egen-Schwind et.al., 1992).
I wish someone would study the effects on Marine fish a little closer so we could know what effect, if any, Garlic has on our fish. Until then, my fish will be Garlic free. I don't see how a few doses to remove Ick could hurt but I'm leery of suggesting feeding it every day.
maroonclownfan
Member
My tank is just shy of 2 yrs., been moved twice, have lost 5 fish, three due to inexperience and bad advice from LFS and two for no noticeable reason at all, all were lost in first year of tank existence, none of which to ich.
Have never had an ich problem.....knock on wood.....
No garlic with food or extra chemicals at all for that matter.
I have been lucky to avoid ich, picking healthy specimens is the best prevention for avoiding problems IMO.
MCF
Have never had an ich problem.....knock on wood.....
No garlic with food or extra chemicals at all for that matter.
I have been lucky to avoid ich, picking healthy specimens is the best prevention for avoiding problems IMO.
MCF
hondo
Member
I've only ever had ICH in the tank once and that was directly related to my tank sitter letting the apartment and tank get way too hot and stressing out the fish. The ICH killed all but one fish and since then I have never had a case. That was 3 years ago. My second tank which has been set up for the past 2 1/2 years has never had a case of ICH. I attribute this to several things.
Stable water conditions
Light bio-load
Correctly sizing and choosing the right fish for the tank size, type, and inhabitants
Far too often people mix fish that will naturally stress each other, or overstock a tank which will stress out some or all of the inhabitants. And most of all people just can't resist a certain type of fish but do not care if they have the right tank and or set up to keep it healthy. I am no expert but have taken great care to not stress the fish I keep and not try keeping a fish I cannot care for correctly as one unhappy fish will kill everything in the enitre tank by getting ICH and that is something so many people in this hobby just refuse to understand.
Stable water conditions
Light bio-load
Correctly sizing and choosing the right fish for the tank size, type, and inhabitants
Far too often people mix fish that will naturally stress each other, or overstock a tank which will stress out some or all of the inhabitants. And most of all people just can't resist a certain type of fish but do not care if they have the right tank and or set up to keep it healthy. I am no expert but have taken great care to not stress the fish I keep and not try keeping a fish I cannot care for correctly as one unhappy fish will kill everything in the enitre tank by getting ICH and that is something so many people in this hobby just refuse to understand.